Another success by ARISS!!

Frank De Winne Crew Pick,and Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium, via ON4ESC contact successful......

NASA announced a contest, which will give American school kids a chance to make history, by naming two rovers being launched to explore Mars. The robotic explorers are part of NASA's upcoming Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.

SoyuzTMA-1: On 1.11.02 during the pass in orb. ISS between 0445 and 0453UTC S-TMA1 was hovering for a while before continuing the approach towards the ISS Pirs docking port. The operation was executed in the automatic mode with the system Kurs....

The world's first international orbital outpost celebrates the second anniversary of continuous residency and permanent human presence in space Saturday, Nov. 2. The anniversary marks an ambitious and virtually flawless year of expansion and research in space.

Just updated Realaudio Page with latest recording about Frank De Winne, ON1DWN contact with the Royal Technical School Belgian Air Force, Sint Truiden, Belgium.
Contact direct via ON4BAF was performed today Nov. 3, 2002 at 09:17 UTC.
The ISS FanClub Staff

Tomorrow are the school contackt with :

Frank De Winne Crew Pick, Royal Technical School Belgian Air Force, Sint Truiden, Belgium

Direct via ON4BAF

2002-11-03 09:15 UTC

Next contackt :

Frank De Winne Crew Pick, Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium, direct via

ON4ESC or Telebridge

2002-11-05 09:00 UTC
73 de jan pe2jmr

A Russian-Belgian cosmonaut crew arrived at the International Space Station in the wee hours this morning in a newly modified Soyuz capsule after a flawless two-day flight following launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour is set to launch Nov. 11 on a mission that will carry the International Space Station (ISS) into its third year of permanent occupancy with a new crew and a new, 14-ton truss segment to enhance future cooling and power systems.

A QSL card from Frank de Winne on ISS can become via ON7AQ via buro, or direct by Petré Tania ON7AQ, Kerkom Dorp 100, B-3800 St. Truiden, Belgium.

Greetings and '73s

ON4CKT Rudy, Godshuisstraat 4, 9185 Wachtebeke, Belgium.

E-Mail:Rudy.Fontenoy@vt4.net

Zalyotin, De Winne and Lonchakov are now onboard Space Station. Taxi Crew and ISS Crew will work together until November 10 in a very busy week.

Then the next Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-113 will change ISS Crew onboard the Station. Launch is scheduled on Nov. 11.