HOW TO GET TWITTER ALERTS TO VIEW International Space Station OVERHEAD

International Space Station(ISS),my earlier post, talks of what the ISS is and how it can be viewed with the space station locater. My popular post entitled, When Does The International Space Station Fly Over My Home talks about your ability to view the ISS as it passes overhead without a telescope. NASA gives a realtime update for viewing all satellites according to your country and city, and Google Sky can be used for real time viewing. Yes, the internet has made it possible for us share information in order to view anything from any part of the world & get updates in real time. Educators around the world are guiding their students in viewing the ISS. And now a twitter application from Netherlands gives us twitter alerts based on our location,so as to enable us to be ready to view ISS as it passes overhead.

This is what you need to do:

1. Get a twitter account.
2. Enter your location (coordinates or text) in your profile.
3. Start following http://twitter.com/twisst
4. You will receive twitter alerts a few hours before in order to be able to view the International Space station as it passes overhead.

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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION(ISS)

The International Space Station is a home to astronauts while conducting experiments.The bbc website has an interactive tour of the ISS.You can know about life on the ISS and what science is conducted there that cannot be done here on earth. You can also know exactly when the ISS will fly over your home by viewing the space station locater.
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SUNITA WILLIAMS

"STARS IN HER EYES", an interview with the American-Indian Astronaut on the CNNIBN news channel this morning,caught my attention since all the questions regarding Sunita and her space odyssey was answered .School children were the audience as eminent journalist Rajdeep Sardesai asked her a few questions while the majority of the questions came from the children seated there and those from across India.
Having been the first to run a marathon in space,done spacewalks, and lived in the ISS(international Space Station) for six months, she recounted the beauty of the earth and said there are no markings between countries-they are only on paper. Asked as to who she would choose to take up with her into space, given the chance, she said that she would like to take with her someone who has a lot of animosity, simply because once you see the earth moving with so much peace and tranquility, you cannot but help becoming serene yourself.
Sunita best wants to be remembered as a role model for children .And yes,she loves samosas.She had a feeling of home whenever she ate them in space.