Do you live in Woolwich or the South East? Expect Santa aboard The International Space Station as he come to wish us an early Merry Christmas when the station comes wheezing past overhead tonight and tomorrow.
The International Space Station is a magnificient idea by man to "enable long-term exploration of space and provide benefits to people on Earth", by putting and leaving it in space for the long haul, a permanent station now orbit the earth for research and development purposes.
Nick Green, writing for Space/Astronomy, said the ISS will create a 'permanent orbiting science institute in space, for long-duration research in the materials and life sciences areas in a nearly gravity-free environment'.
The ISS is equipped with appropriate laboratory facilities for Medical research will be conducted aboard as the station gyrates at top speed and weghtlessness.
Nick Gree said 'It's unique conditions will accelerate breakthroughs in technology and engineering.'
The Station, originally launched on November 20, 1998 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan, contains expansion slots that enables additional modules to be installed, for different research purposes and by different nations.
Researchers and astronauts can live up to 6 months at a time at the ISS and conditions have so improved that they can now communicate with earth even while at top speed above earth, and regularly hold live discussions and question and answer sessions.
From time to time, it overflies nations and takes photos from above, providing earth with insight of what it looks like from out there.
The ISS is due to overfly the UK and star gazers have a chance to see it, as weather reports say the sky will be clear.
With a sky described by weather forecaster as "Incredibly Bright", residents of Woolwich in South East, London can catch the ISS tomorrow Tuesday, 24th and 26th December, 2013 at 18:01pm at passes overhead.
Those who miss it this month will have to wait till February 2014 before they are able to spot it above the UK sky again. Even then, it will still be subject to weatherman's approval.
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