International Space Station Alert

Earlier tonight I was working in my classroom and had so much to do that I was beginning to feel convinced that I should just spend the night there; crawl right under my desk with my rolled up lab coat as a pillow when I couldn't stand to grade another Science journal. In this defeated moment a chirp from an app on my phone alerted me that in just a few minutes the ISS would be passing directly over head at my exact planetary location.

Five minutes later, science journals abandoned, with my coat, my keys, and my dreams held tightly in my hand, I stood in the middle of the dark and abandoned parking lot staring up at the twilight sky. I watched as the Space Station cruised by and then slowly dimmed and went dark as it floated into Earth's shadow.

As I walked on to my car, glad that Science had saved me from a grading all-nighter, I could only hope that one day I would be up there looking down. Until then, this:

This is Our Planet from Tomislav Safundžić on Vimeo.