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International space station fly over Ireland

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The international space station fly over Saturday evening at sunset between 7:01pm to 7:06pm from Ballyshannon Co.Donegal Ireland.

It took an astounding 136 space flights on seven different types of launch vehicles to build it.

It flies at 4.791 miles per second (7.71 km/s). That's fast enough to go to the Moon and back in about a day.

It weighs almost 1 million pounds including visiting spacecraft. Picture 120,000 gallons of milk in supermarket cartons in your mind.

It has 8 miles of wire just to connect the electrical power system. That will be enough to connect a hairdryer in Newark, New Jersey, to a power plug in New York City.

It has a complete surface area the size of a US football field, which actually makes it almost as large as the Tantive IV, the Corellian Corvette that carried Princess Leia.

The ISS crews have eaten about 25,000 meals since 2000. That's a staggering "seven tons of supplies per three astronauts for six months." That's 32,558 Big Macs.

211 people from 15 countries have visited the ISS so far.

Music - Fearless First - royalty free music from Kevin MacLeod

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