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Ground Control to Major Tom...
Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, March 31 2013 @ 12:51 PM EDT

This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do

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Made me look(up)
Authored by: hardmath on Sunday, March 31 2013 @ 01:28 PM EDT

Look-up, that is the altitude of the ISS orbit, which appears not so far away in the video.

Google seems to know it as a factoid as 370 km (230 mi). That's about 30 times the long haul altitude for commercial jet aircraft, given to be 40,000 ft.

As far as actual looking up, to see spacecraft in the night sky, NASA has a web resource here.

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Recursion is the opprobrium of the mathists.

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Todays APOD (31/03/2013) is a must see
Authored by: symbolset on Sunday, March 31 2013 @ 11:32 PM EDT

This is not really what the Earth at night "looks like" to an astronaut. It's what the Earth looks like to an astronaut's camera, set for a long exposure time and enhanced to show light sources the astronaut can't see due to the limited latency of his retina. Or Earth through a telescope that amplifies the light intensity to the point where the astronaut can see it - and that is unlikely since the slightest daylight limb in the field of view would blind him instantly.

The actual Earth to an astronaut doesn't look anything like this observing directly with his naked eye. His view is no better than ours.

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Link correction
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 01 2013 @ 12:57 AM EDT
Earth by night

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