Space Shuttle Atlantis sits on Launch Pad 39A Image above: Space Shuttle Atlantis, mounted on a mobile launch platform, rests on the hard stand of Launch Pad 39A after an early morning rollout.

Space Shuttle Atlantis atop the crawler transporter made the slow journey to the launch pad this morning. The vehicle was 'hard down' at Launch Pad 39A at 11:47 a.m. after leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building at 5:04 a.m. EDT.

http://ftp.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg00649.html

A spacecraft automatically docked to the International Space Station early Tuesday, delivering 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the residents on board.

The ISS Progress 25 linked up to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module at 12:10 a.m. CDT Tuesday as the station sailed 208 miles above the Earth off the northeast coast of Australia. Within minutes, hooks and latches engaged between the two spacecraft to form a tight seal. The hatch to the supply ship will be opened overnight to enable its cargo to be unloaded.

Complete release at http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/may/HQ_SS0

Audio file from the ARISS contact between students at the Barrhaven Public School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 15 May 2007

Audio File: 

QSO_2007_05_15_161052.mp3

Dear Alain & ISS Fan Club Members,

Since about 1992 the International Space Agency (ISA) has been asking the Member Nations of ISS to set up an Official Global International Space Station (ISS) Website?

We have suggested domains:
http://www.iss.gov
-or-
http://www.iss.int

This website would act as the neutral core and central reference point for all Member Nations to redirect ISS General Public and Media related internet traffic. This would allow all ISS public information globally to be directed to "ONE" neutrally managed ISS website. All ISS crew media interviews and video of ISS operations and launches to ISS could also be centrally presented on this central ISS Website.

A new Progress freighter launched to the International Space Station Friday at 11:25 p.m. EDT with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard.

The station's 25th Progress unpiloted cargo carrier will bring to the orbiting laboratory more than 1,050 pounds of propellant, almost 100 pounds of air, more than 925 pounds of water and 3,042 pounds of dry cargo - a total of 5,125 pounds.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg00642.html

An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Kenneth J. Carberry Intermediate School, Emmett, Idaho USA on 16 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:47 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and W7VT. The contact should be audible in western portions of North America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Kenneth J. Carberry Intermediate School in Emmett, Idaho has approximately 410 students in grades 4 through 6. Boise, our capital city, is only 30 miles away. We are located in a beautiful valley that is rapidly changing from a rural farming community to a commuter suburb of Boise. We are proud to be a 2004 NASA Explorer School. Our NASA Family Nights, Character Education Program and music program are further sources of pride. We also offer an after-school science club, the Discovery Club, that has a membership of over 150 students.