美国国家航空航天局（NASA）最新服务：提醒人们在家后园看国际空间站。

虽然银河旅游对我们中的大多数人仍然是一个白日梦，但有兴趣的人可能在家后园看到国际空间站，美国国家航空航天局愿意为此提供帮助。

上周星期五，美国太空总署在庆祝航天员生活和工作的轨道空间站建立十二周年之际，推出了一项新服务，当人们能从他们的后院看到空间站的时候，会发电邮提醒他们。签署这项服务的人会在国际空间站通过家门口几个小时前收到电子邮件或短消息提醒。

美国国家航空航天局说，如果时间正确，你只需要出去看看，不需要任何复杂的装备要求。

“真的可以很明显地看到空间站飞过，认识到人类可以在空间建立一个复杂的轨道体，只要天时地利，地球上几乎任何人抬头就可以看到，”美国宇航局主管人类探索和运作项目的副局长William Gerstenmaier在声明中指出。

空间站通常是黎明或黄昏时分最容易看到，那个时候月亮是夜空中唯一可见的明亮的物体，美国国家航空航天局还告诉大家。

空间站看起来像一个快速移动的光点，类似金星。

“在家后园看空间站”的服务是在世界范围内的，该机构说，超过90%的地球人可能看到空间站的轨迹。

报名签署这项服务，请访问美国国家航空航天局网站spotthestation.nasa.gov。

原文链接：

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/03/nasa-launches-alerts-to-spot-the-space-station-from-your-back-yard/

作者： Agence France-Presse

原载：http://www.rawstory.com/ 

翻译：绿镜头

Galactic tourism may still be a daydream for most of us, but for anyone interested in a glimpse of the International Space Station sooner, NASA is ready to help.

The US space agency, celebrating the 12th anniversary of astronauts living and working on the orbiting lab, launched a new service Friday that alerts people when the space station is visible from their back yard.

Those who sign up will get an email or a text message with a few hours warning.

Then, when the moment is right, NASA said, you just go outside and look up — no fancy equipment required.

“It’s really remarkable to see the space station fly overhead and to realize humans built an orbital complex that can be spotted from Earth by almost anyone looking up at just the right moment,” William Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and
operations, said in a statement.

The space station is typically visible right at dawn or dusk, when the moon is the only brighter object visible in the night sky, NASA said.

It looks like a fast moving point of light, similar to Venus.

“Spot the Station” service is available worldwide, the agency said, adding the station’s trajectory carries it over more than 90 percent of the Earth’s population.

To sign up, visit spotthestation.nasa.gov.