The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.

Endeavour is now slated to launch toward the International Space Station on Nov. 14 at 7:55 p.m. EST (0055 Nov. 25 GMT) on a mission to deliver a new crew member, fresh supplies and equipment to support larger, six-person crews aboard the orbiting laboratory.

The mission was initially scheduled to lift off on Nov. 16, but shuttle managers said Monday that an earlier flight might be possible after they delayed the planned Oct. 14 launch of the Atlantis orbiter due to glitches with its target â€" the Hubble Space Telescope.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. Astronaut Training Status
3. ARISS Presentations at 2008 AMSAT-NA Symposium

1. Upcoming School Contacts
Scuola Media Statale Donato Forlani in Conversano, Bari, Italy has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Tuesday, October 7 at 11:29 UTC. Students have been introduced to amateur radio and have covered the importance of space missions. Media coverage is expected to include newspapers, radio and television.

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled with Buchanan High School in Clovis, California on Saturday, October 11 at 16:10 UTC. Telebridge station NN1SS in Greenbelt, Maryland will assist with the contact. This event has been requested to coincide with the school's "Columbia Mission," a student-organized mock shuttle mission.

I have received from IZ7EVR Michele news about a scheduled activity via satellite before the ARISS contact from Scuola Media Forlani in Conversano (Ba).
Favorable orbits of AO51 and VO52 will be in the morning, so if you are ready to use these satellites you are welcome to contact IZ7EVR or the School Callsign IZ7MKW.

73' Claudio IK1SLD