Space events April 16 to 23 make this is a good week to link to NASA and look up.
If “Hidden Figures” rekindled interest in NASA, its launches and its people, now is prime time to see what’s happening.
Beginning at 10 a.m. CT today, April 18, NASA is launching Orbital ATK CRS-7, a cargo mission to resupply the Space Station. Click here for more information and to watch it.
Secondly, very early in the morning of April 20 at 2:13 a.m. CT is the launch of the Expedition 51 crew to the Space Station. Visit launch for information on the Expedition 51 crew and how to watch it on TV.
Then, during the predawn hours of April 22 , look up to the north east to spy meteors streaking across the sky. They are the Lyrids which are debris from Comet C-1861 G1 Thatcher near the bright Vega star. Vega is in the Lyra Constellation.
The Lyrids actually began Sunday, April 16 but they peak early Saturday after Vega is high in the sky well after midnight.
Considered the oldest observable shower, it was first noted more than 2,600 years ago.
A good site for more Lyrids information is Time and Date