NASA Astronauts Mike Fincke and Terry Virts recently suited up for a voyage in "space" without ever leaving Earth. In fact, their most recent space expedition was in Hollywood.
Instead of a countdown, their launch began on "lights, camera, and action!" While on vacation, the real-life space explorers traded in their spacesuits for make-believe future space garb as the two made a guest appearance on the upcoming season finale of the science fiction television series "Star Trek: Enterprise."

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/Astros_on_StarTrek.html

Hello all,
I'll be doing a telebridge link-up between the ISS and the Iroquois Middle School in New York, USA this Monday 16th May at 17:50 UTC (Tuesday morning at 3:20 am Sth. Aust. time).
The downlink is on 145.800 Mhz. and should be readable over most of Australia. You are invited to listen in. (don't forget to set the alarm !!)

Best regards,
Tony.

J.A.Hutchison. VK5ZAI
P.O Box 470
KINGSTON SE. 5275
South Australia

Australian ARISS Co-ordinator
web site :- http://www.electric-web.org

The Station's orbit was raised Wednesday after a docked Progress spacecraft fired its engines at 10:27 a.m. EDT. To prepare for the reboost, Flight Engineer and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips reconfigured some video cameras Tuesday. Russian flight controllers commanded the docked Progress 17 spacecraft to fire its engines raising the Station's orbit by 1.5 miles to an altitude of 226 miles by 214 miles. The cameras captured video of external Station elements that might flex or bend during the maneuver.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Photos of Astronaut John Phillips on the ISS speaking with students of the Albany Hills School in Brisbane are on the NASA web site at :
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/ndxpage15.html

The story and photos of the students is on the ARRL web site at :
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/05/2/?nc=1

12 students of Hosokawa junior high school prepared 24 questions for ISS astronaut John Phillips. They asked him 22 of those questions, which he answered before the Space Station dropped below the horizon.

Audience:
Students: 300
Others (including parents) : 100
TV Station: 1 (Local cable TV)
Newspapers: 2

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm