The world celebrates the achievements in space this week.
Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik 1 into space. It was a tremendous achievement by humankind.
In celebration of World Space Week, find a way to honor the great scientific achievements. You can visit a planetarium or science museum, read a new book about space, or go out and observe the night sky.
How many people who were awed by that moment fifty years ago could foretell a future in which hundreds of satellites regularly zoomed overhead and played such an integral part of our lives with communications, weather, defense, and so on?
Visit the web site Heavensabove.com. There you can type in your location and find out when the next observable satellite passes over your location. You can even see a bright Iridium flare, the Hubble Space Telescope, and other notable space satellites cruising above you.
Happy World Space Week!
