ISS Makes 'Outstanding Pass' Over Atlanta Thursday Night

On a clear Thursday evening over Atlanta, the International Space Station traced an arc nearly straight overhead — a seven-minute crossing that invited ordinary people to look up and witness, in a single bright point of light, the accumulated ambition of human spacefaring. The station, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour from 300 miles above the Earth, carried not only its crew but the weight of ongoing scientific inquiry, as freshly arrived SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts began months of research that may quietly improve life on the ground. Moments like these remind us that the boundary between the e