Video: Look for the space station in the sky

As the ISS travels over large U.S. cities, it?s possible to view the orbiting space station by following the bright light shooting across the sky. NBC?s Brian Williams reports. Transcript

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>>> take a quick second here tonight to talk about space. specifically something really extraordinary that's taking place this week in the skies above our country. the international space station orbits the earth 16 times a day. but it just so happens that this week's orbit patterns bring it right over top of big u.s. population centers. happens from time to time, including later tonight. there are some great websites that allow you to track it, even get alerts when it's going to pass over where you live. we'll link to those on our website tonight, especially if you have kids or you, yourself, grew up, as i did, in the space erachlt it's an awesome sight. this week you'll see a bright light moving faster than any plane across the sky. you just need to get to a dark space, if you can, channel your clark w. gris wald and as you watch it's a home to 17 people traveling 17,000 miles an hour, high above the earth. we happen to know they watch this broadcast on a nasa upload. it's only fair to them we watch them back this week.

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