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Today was one of those rare, lucky days, when you get a chance to render someone awestruck with a perfect, bare-eye ISS fly-by observation for his first time. Afterwards, he was curious if that really was the ISS and how I was able to tell and predict it. Good. People who question things are good company. So I told him a bit about TLE's and how they can be used to calculate/predict orbits and sent him the link to xfce-planet along with the HDEV stream website: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

Then it was my turn to render myself awestruck with a first-time observation of a different kind:

https://analytics.usa.gov/

https://github.com/digital-analytics-program/gov-wide-code

https://dap.digitalgov.gov/Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js?agency=NASA&subagency=JSCgov/Universal-Federated-Analytics-Min.js?agency=NASA&subagency=JSC

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