Space station visible from Panama

THE INTERNATIONAL Space Station will be visible from  Panama City for a few minutes each evening this week, says the US Space  , Agency, NASA.

The station the largest object ever put into space, is at an average altitude of 320 kilometers.

It travels around the Earth at 27,000 kilometers per hour.

From the Earth, it appears as a slightly larger object than a star.

To view the station, you should look at 10 degrees northwest at 7:16 pm on Monday

For five minutes, the station will travel toward 19 degrees southeast.

It will appear in the night sky five more times this week.

Since the station was launched in 2000, some 220 persons from 17 countries have orbited in the craft.