Russian Mission Control experts on Thursday succeeded in latching a cargo ship securely onto the international space station, after an initial failure to complete the docking, an official said.

"The repeat attempt to hook up the ship with the station has been a success," Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin told The Associated Press.

A faulty antenna apparently prevented the Progress M-58 cargo ship from hooking up quickly to the station, after a smooth docking at 6:28 p.m. Moscow time (1428 GMT), he said.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/

An International Space Station Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the Flanders Science Festival in Transinne, Belgium on Friday, 27 Oct 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:36 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and WH6PN. The contact should be audible to anyone in Hawaii. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options are listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

IRLP - Connect to the IRLP reflector 9010.