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“Super Bowl”, or “Super Cup” represents the final American football game for the national champion title leagues.
The game is accompanied in the USA by performances of celebrities, massive festivities and drinking a myriad of alcohol, turning into a full-fledged national holiday. Broadcast competition is the most popular among americans television event of the year. No coincidence showing during the game a five-minute commercial costs today five million dollars.
Not all US residents had the opportunity to attend the fiftieth Super Cup on Sunday, the seventh February. Among them was NASA employee Scott Joseph Kelly, four hundred kilometers away above the ground. Cosmonaut working on the International Space The station, is a big fan of American football. Despite the fact that Kelly could watch the broadcast of the match through Internet, he decided to try to watch the game with telescope orbital station.
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Unfortunately, he did not succeed. First, the ISS telescope turned out not to be strong enough and Levy Stadium in California the city of Santa Clara, where the competitions were held, was increased only to match head sizes. According to the astronaut, if power the telescope was as high as, say, the satellites, used by the Google Maps internet service, he would be able to watch a game from space.
Secondly, the International Space Station is not known to stands still. It moves in Earth orbit at a speed above twenty seven thousand kilometers per hour. Of course, sports the construction just flashed below, and about no viewing of the game there could be no speech.
Scott, however, shared with Internet users shot of the stadium and regretted that he could not be in it time among the audience. The American chose not to tell which team prefers not to cause unnecessary disputes and zealous excitement among fans.
Fifty-one-year-old Scott Joseph Kelly will stay for outside the planet much longer than their colleagues from NASA. Total he will spend on board the ISS for twelve months. His twin brother Mark Edward Kelly is now on Earth. On Scott’s return with one-year mission, American scientists plan to compare his body condition with similar health indicators of his brother and determine the impact of a prolonged stay in space renders on the person.
NASA ISS Time Telescope
