  The International Space Station offers a unique platform for rapid and
inexpensive deployment of space telescopes. A scientific opportunity of great
potential later this decade is the use of telescopes for the electromagnetic
follow-up of ground-based gravitational wave detections of neutron star and
black hole mergers. We describe this possibility for OpTIIX, an ISS technology
demonstration of a 1.5 m diffraction limited optical telescope assembled in
space, and ISS-Lobster, a wide-field imaging X-ray telescope now under study as
a potential NASA mission. Both telescopes will be mounted on pointing
platforms, allowing rapid positioning to the source of a gravitational wave
event. Electromagnetic follow-up rates of several per year appear likely,
offering a wealth of complementary science on the mergers of black holes and
neutron stars.
