Our school has a special relationship with the International Space Station (ISS), as we currently have an experiment aboard. That said, NASA just made public a fun tracking program that will alert you via email or SMS text message when the ISS is visible in your neck of the woods.
If you're interested in signing up (I already have!!!), just click on this link and sign up: NASA's Spot the Station. If you are interested in signing up to receive text messages, not just emails, you will use the email addresses they provided for you at the bottom of the page, in the yellow box. Instead of using the numbers 1234567890, you will replace those numbers with the area code and phone number of your cell phone. For example, if your cell phone number is (219)555-5555, then you would type 2195555555@[whatever carrier suffix they stipulate in the yellow box].
Once you sign up, you will receive an email or text, depending on which you prefer, with a final registration confirmation code. Once you type that code into the space given on the website, you will be signed up for 12 months' worth of alerts when the ISS is above head.
Neat!
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