The International Space Station may be visible in the early morning, flying by at five miles a second. Information about how, when and where to see it is available at:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/isssightings
All sightings available from U.S. cities during the holidays are pre-dawn sightings. The Station is not expected to be visible in the evenings.
The 200-ton plus Station, which is more than 170 feet long and 240 feet wide, will be visible from most continental U.S. cities, as well as Juneau, Alaska, on various days between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. The Station’s crew, Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, will celebrate the holidays aboard the orbiting research complex this year.
Chiao and Sharipov are a third of the way through a six-month stay conducting research aboard the complex. Research aboard the Station helps people learn how to live and work for long periods in space. That information is a crucial step in realizing the Vision for Space Exploration, which in the years ahead will return humans to the moon and see them journey to Mars and beyond.
For more information about the Expedition 10 crew, visit:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov