Every day, the world's most advanced space laboratory zips around the Earth 16 times.
The International Space Station (ISS) is the size of a football field and weighs almost 1 million pounds.
Since it travels at 17,500 miles per hour, you can get spectacular views of the entire planet multiple times a day.
And, you can even watch it online. This livestream will show you what the astronauts see:
It's nighttime on the side of the Earth that's not facing the sun. That's where the station is if what you're seeing on the camera is darkness.
Remarkably, high school students helped design and operate the four high definition cameras aboard the ISS that allow you to see Earth.
If you go to the USTREAM site that hosts the live feed, you can also see a map tracing where the ISS is in the world and a social feed where people post comments about what they're seeing.
So anytime you want to feel like an astronaut aboard the ISS, just tune into the livestream. I bet Scott Kelly will turn it on when he misses his home of 340 days.
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