The Astronaut Richard Garriott on the ISS used this software to help you take pictures of the earth. Richard sent some pictures of the screen via SSTV this software directly from Notebook. The "Windows on Earth" is an excellent digital simulation that allows the exploitation of the land of a window of the International Space Station.

For those who do not know and want to give the simulation between the link below:

http://winearth.terc.edu/appISSFlight/

To view SSTV images of software sent by Richard Garriott when he was on the ISS see the links below:

http://www.issfanclub.com/node/7802

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA on 27 December. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 1559 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and WA2HOM. The contact should be audible over most of N. America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum is 40,000 square feet of science, math and fun located in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. Opening in 1982, the Museum has welcomed over 3.5 million guests, averaging 200,000 guests annually. The Museum has received national recognition by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Association of Science and Technology Centers. Named Best Museum in 2003 by The Detroit Free Press, The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum is consistently rated the Best Kids' Activity in the annual "Best of Ann Arbor" list.

International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov wound up a 5-hour, 38-minute spacewalk to install an electromagnetic energy probe and other experiments at 1:29 a.m. EST Tuesday.

They also took photos. The spacewalk, in Russian Orlan spacesuits from the station's Pirs docking compartment, began at 7:51 p.m. Monday.

Lonchakov, the lead spacewalker, completed his first spacewalk. Fincke completed his fifth spacewalk.

Lonchakov and Fincke worked together to install the electromagnetic energy measuring device, called a Langmuir probe, on Pirs. Measurements of electromagnetic energy could be helpful in the investigation of its effects on pyrotechnical separation bolts on Soyuz spacecraft. The bolts are suspects in the investigation of ballistic - steeper than normal -- entries of the Expedition 15 and Expedition 16 Soyuz spacecraft.