Shuttle Night launch Visible:
The Shuttle STS-113 will be launched to the International Space Station
at 11:59 p.m. CST Sunday (0559
GMT Monday). If Space Shuttle Endeavor
launches on time, docking with
ISS should take place on Tuesday at 8:49 p.m.
CST......

Soyuz TM-34 was undocked from the ISS Russian Segment ZARYA Module on November 9, 2002 at 23:44 in Moscow time, following the Moscow Region Mission Control Center (MCC-M) commanding....

Safely descending to Earth in their Soyuz TM-34 capsule, the crew ended a 11-day mission with a flawless night landing near the town of Arkalyk on the plains of Kazakhstan at 06:04 local time (00:04 GMT).

Soyuz TM-34 return images

On November 11, the first tribally registered Native American astronaut will lift off into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the 16th American assembly flight to the International Space Station.

Tired of the same old DX ??

Many of us find that there are just some days that there seems to be nothing new to work on the bands. Why not try working something out of this world. By that I mean working the International Space Station. (ISS). Over the years I have always been involved with satellites. Hearing the first Oscar sending its “HI" in Morse code, working through the RS series of satellites, talking with the MIR cosmonauts and now working the crew of the ISS.

Vital Statistics:

WEIGHT: ISS: 166,118 kg (366,227 lbs.)

Major Elements:

Zarya: 19,958 kg (44,000 lbs.)

Unity: 11,612 kg (25,600 lbs.)

Zvezda: 22,135 kg (48,800 lbs.) .......

MISSION: STS-113 -- 16th ISS Flight (11A) - P1 Truss Segment

Vehicle Endeavour/OV-105

Target Launch Date November 11, 2002

Target Launch Period 12:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. EST

Target Landing Date November 21, 2002

Mission Duration 11 days

Crew Wetherbee, Lockhart, Lopez-Alegria, Herrington

ISS Crew Up: Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit

ISS Crew Down: Korzun, Whitson, Treschev

Orbital Insertion Altitude/Inclination 122 nautical miles/51.6 degrees

Next week, Space Shuttle Endeavour will deliver to the International Space Station (ISS) the third piece of the Station's exterior truss backbone, and kick off the third year of science inside the orbiting laboratory by bringing up a new load of scientific experiments.

SSME Test Live on the Internet

When the Space Shuttle lifts off, two solid rocket motors and three main engines generate enough power to lift it to orbit.

Anybody who heard the QSO of Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne (ON1DWN) on board ISS with the Royal Technical School of the Belgian Airforce (ON4BAF)......