After more than a million online responses, the station module formerly known as Node 3 will be called Tranquility.
Tired of those boring old tracking maps that show the space station going around and around the Earth, and wondering what the view from up there must be like?
Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew landed in Kazakhstan at 3:16 a.m. EDT Wednesday after about six months in space.
Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-14 to the International Space Station at 9:05 a.m. EDT Saturday.
Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:49 a.m. EDT Thursday to begin a six-month stay in space.
Tuesday's spacewalk with Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov concluded at 5:11 p.m. EDT when the Pirs docking module airlock was closed. The spacewalk concluded ahead of schedule, lasting 4 hours and 49 minutes.
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, real-time tracking data and the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth, you can take a look at the Earth below from where the International Space Station is right now.
Take a virtual tour of the orbital outpost.
Find out when the ISS is over your city, or track where it is right now.
› Sightings Page →View more NASA video, crew wake-up calls and other behind-the-scenes videos on the ReelNASA YouTube channel.
› View the videos →Astronaut Suni Williams announced the Space Station's Node 3 will be named "Tranquility," and a treadmill will be named COLBERT.
› View This VideoExpedition 19 launches to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz rocket.
› View This VideoOn Nov. 20, 2008, the International Space Station marked 10 years of operation in space orbiting the Earth. NASA commemorated this milestone by making several videos showcasing the largest spacecraft built to date.
Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke works with the Smoke Point in Co-flow Experiment, or SPICE, which determines the point at which gas-jet flames begin to emit soot in microgravity.
› View This VideoExpedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke works with the Component Repair Experiment, which will help develop effective in-space repair strategies such as component-level repair of electronics for future space missions.
› View This VideoExpedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke takes you on a guided tour of his home in orbit (open captioned).
› View This VideoExterior photos show the Station's growth as new components are added.
See how the International Space Station orients itself.