Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
Amsat #31468

This is a good article about the Soyuz TMA spacecraft with a lot of information on the rendezvous, docking, undocking, descent module, instrumentation, propulsion module etc.
Soyuz will dock the Station tomorrow wednesday in the morning (05:04 UTC).

International Space Station Status Report #04-20
11 p.m. CDT, Sunday, April 18, 2004
Expedition 8 Crew
The Soyuz launched flawlessly at 10:19 p.m. CDT from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, and is on course to dock with the Station at
12:04 a.m. CDT Wednesday, April 21.

* Copied from SAREX bulletin board*
All,
This is an update regarding the K6DUE ISS Commemorative Event Certificate.
The certificate printing was completed a few weeks ago and the certificates were distributed to the international delegates at the ARISS Meeting that has held as ESA ESTEC, Netherlands on March 26-27. The international delegates planned to forward these to their QSL distributors.
In the USA, I understand that the certificates were mailed out this past week. So those that made contacts should see these in the mail soon.
From a statistics standpoint, approximately 130 hams will be receiving certificates. Congratulations!!

73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chairman
AMSAT-NA V.P for Human Spaceflight Programs