NASA takes Snapchat to the International Space Station for a day
 

NASA takes Snapchat to the International Space Station for a day
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On Monday, May 16, the International Space Station made its mind-boggling 100,000th*orbit around the Earth. The ISS, humanity's longest-running habitable artificial satellite, was launched **v. 20, 1998, and completes one orbit approximately every hour and a half.*

To celebrate the occasion, NASA astronaut and ISS commander Tim Kopra is on a Snapchat spree, showing what it looks like to live some 250 miles above the Earth.*

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NASA's "Day in Space" can be found in the form of a Snapchat Live Story, accessible through the three-lined icon in the bottom right of Snapchat's main screen. Read more...


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