Archive - 2002
December 22nd
List RS0ISS-1 for 22-Dec-02 at 0015Z
List RS0ISS-1 for 22-Dec-02 at 0015Z
CHALLENGING YEAR AHEAD FOR SPACE STATION
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
The coming year will be the most challenging ever for
construction of the International Space Station. Already
more than two-thirds of the way through the assembly of its
core structure, international crews face a full and busy
construction schedule.
ISS Status Report - Dec. 20, 2002
Submitted by Arthur N1ORC
After almost a month on the International Space Station, crewmembers were
literally bouncing off the walls of the orbiting laboratory on Monday.
They wound up the week with extensive and successful robotic arm
operations on Thursday and on Friday worked.....
Marconi 100th Anniversary January 18, 2003
During the period of the 11th through the 19th of January 2003 the Marconi Radio Club of Massachusetts will operate a special event station to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi's first spark gap transmission between the United States and Europe.
The original 1903 message was a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt
to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
The ISS has confirmed a communication schedule with the Marconi Special Event Station.Info here
December 20th
Added Free Floating Autoupdating Map
We have added two other maps under TRACK THE STATION block.Now there are available maps with autoupdating function and you don't need to reload manually the image longer.
The ISS FanClub Staff
STAR TREK OF THE FUTURE-VERY INTERESTING
Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
One year ago this week, NASA ground controllers deactivated Deep Space
1--an extraordinary spacecraft that tested a dozen advanced technologies
and then, as a bonus, flew perilously close to the nucleus of a comet.
The craft is asleep now, permanently, but perhaps it has one more
contribution to make ... to the field of archeology in the next
millennium.
FULL STORY at NASA