Fresh food, new clothes and more water were among the welcome new arrivals to the International Space Station this week as an unmanned Russian resupply craft docked with the complex. The Progress 11
spacecraft automatically docked to the station's Pirs Docking Compartment Wednesday morning, three days after its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

For the first time, an astronaut with months of experience in space will compare that time to life underwater. Peggy Whitson, an International Space Station veteran, is commanding a NASA crew spending two weeks living on the ocean floor.....

Following on from my recent capture of ISS crossing the Moon in daylight (June 8 ) , yesterday I made a round trip of 40 miles to get onto the centre line of a solar transit.

The results can be seen on my website
http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk
Simply follow the "ISS Lunar and Solar transit" link

At the time of the transit , ISS was about 500 km downrange , and some detail is visible.

Regards,

John.

Fully according to plan and flawlessly the operations were performed with this for the wellbeing of the ISS crew and the continuation of the ISS herself badly needed freighter.
PrM1-10 started from Baykonur on 8.06.03 at 1034UTC.

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu began unpacking cargo from the Progress 11 spacecraft Friday. The Progress 11, which docked to the International Space Station on Wednesday.....

Webster High School, Webster, N.Y. - TBD UTC

Stanford University, Palo Alto Gunn High School, California - TBD UTC

Cornell University - TBD UTC

Boulder High School, Colorado - TBD UTC

This week I thought I'd write about a subject near and dear to my heart -- food. You are what you eat after all. First off, let me say I actually like the food here. It isn't quite like Mom's cooking, but it isn't bad! In fact it isn't really cooking at all, more like re-heating or re-hydrating.....

After traveling thousands of miles, two major components of the International Space Station completed the first leg of a journey that will eventually end 240 miles above the Earth. NASA's Node 2, built for the agency by the European Space Agency (ESA) in Italy, and the Pressurized Module of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) arrived in Florida and are being transported to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) this week.

Expedition 7 Enjoys Light Duty Day
The Expedition 7 crewmembers had a day of light duty aboard the
International Space Station so they could celebrate Russian Independence
Day.....

All,

This is a heads up that there will be a school contact Thursday June 12 at 19:22 UTC. The contact will be with the Lively District Secondary School, Lively, Ontario Canada. As usual, the downlink will be on 145.80.

Enjoy!

73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO