http://docs.python.org/2/library/turtle.html#turtle.position
"Return the turtle’s current location (x,y) (as a Vec2D vector)."
However, due to floating point errors, you should consider them overlapping even if they are very slightly apart, e.g.
epsilon = 0.000001
if abs(ISS.xcor() - rocket.xcor()) < epsilon and abs(ISS.ycor() - rocket.ycor()) < epsilon:
do stuff
If you want to pretend they are circles and ISS has a radius of r1 and the rocket has a radius of r2, then you can measure distance like:
sqrt((ISS.xcor() - rocket.xcor())**2 + (ISS.ycor() - rocket.ycor())**2) < (r1 + r2)
If this is true, they are overlapping circles.