One of the most interesting things related to astronomy is the International Space Station (ISS) orbiting the planet. As one of the most challenging projects in the history of mankind, the International Space Station provides humans a great location to research the universe. For amateurs like me the ISS provides lots of interesting things to read, watch and wonder. It is great to watch shuttle flights to ISS from Nasa TV and see in realtime what is happening in the space station, such as STS crew’s spacewalks. I am very happy that I was born in 70’s because now I can utilize the new technology to study and observe astronomical objects. Internet provides me this great information source of ISS, free realtime video broadcasting and a free communication channel with other amateur astronomers. This humble blog is one of those communication channels.

It is Sunday morning here in Finland. Last night was again a great skywatching night, and I spent few ours with Pleiades. Later at night I wrote an article of finding Pleiades. Today the weather looks good again and I might spend the night outside again. I wish I had my own warm observatory one day.. While dreaming of my own observatory, let’s watch this great video, the tour of International Space Station. Watch it and know more about how the space station is built.

By the way, did you know that China is building its own space station?

For more about International Space Station I recommend you to watch another ISS movie. It is a good movie as well.