Ask Mr. Answer Person: Is the International Space Station passing over Decorah?

Bob e-mails Mr. Answer Person: "Saturday night I stepped out my house at 9:16 to watch the International Space Station pass overhead.  If you go to www.spaceweather.com/flybys and enter your zip code, you get the precise fly over times for the ISS and many other satellites.  However, few or no satellites compare to the ISS in brightness.  Its transit time from one horizon to the other takes approximately two minutes.
 
The ISS can be seen again on Friday night beginning at 10.24.  Look to the NNW at about 30 degrees up.  The ISS can be seen again on Sunday night beginning at 10:17, looking WNW at about 46 degrees high.
 
The International Space Station is the biggest, brightest object orbiting Earth. The station's solar arrays span 240-feet from tip to tip, almost as wide as a football field. The ISS outshines Venus; only the sun and Moon are brighter. For more information visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html