The very first flyover will take place Thursday night. Traveling at 17,500 miles per hour, about 250 miles up, it will enter our view low in the west-southwest sky at 9:28 pm.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)– The International Area Stations orbit around earth will bring it over the Tampa Bay area twice in the next 14 hours.

The entire hand down Thursday will last about 6 minutes. The ISS will slowly vanish low on the north-northeast horizon.

Friday mornings pass will last 7 minutes.

Try to find a bright, star-like object moving a little faster than an airplane. It will gradually rise to an elevation of 28 degrees taking a trip toward the north-northeast.

An even better pass, greater on the horizon, will happen Friday at 5:39 am. It will rise in the northwest horizon and reach an elevation of 52 degrees passing off to the south-southeast.

WFLA Now and Tracking the Tropics recently consulted with two NASA astronauts who are on the International Space Station. Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough have actually been on the spaceport station since April as part of the NASA SpaceX Crew-2 objective.