The European Space Agency has asked that ISS stay up past 2015. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/14/esa_chief_plea_to_keep_iss/

Robin Warren
KE5DQM
Ivanhoe, Tx

Here you can find the recording I made today 14 jan. 2010 16.37 local time
of the communication from the spacewalking astronouts during the ISS pass
over Europe relayed at 143.6250 MHz.
http://members.ziggo.nl/janosmail/ISS-14-01-10.wav

Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Max Suraev began the first spacewalk of the Expedition 22 mission when they opened the airlock hatches at 5:05 a.m. EST Thursday. The spacewalk is scheduled to last just under six hours with Kotov wearing the suit bearing the red stripes and Suraev wearing the suit bearing the blue stripes.

› Watch the spacewalk on NASA TV at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

During the spacewalk, the two cosmonauts will prepare the Mini-Research Module 2, known as Poisk, for future Russian vehicle dockings. Suraev and Commander Jeff Williams will be the first to use the new docking port when they relocate their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the aft port of the Zvezda service module on Jan. 21.