Thanks to Alain IZ6BYY we have available a module showing the ISS Achievement Award Listing and Processing.

Now you can see if we have received your IAA request and the processing status too.

Have you sent your IAA request ?Run here to see !!

The ISS FanClub Staff

The ISS-AT is an astronomical telescope mounted on the International Space Station,

and operated by amateur astronomers for the education and benefit of the world's citizens.

From www.noradsanta.org
This year's Santa tracking program is the 45th conducted by NORAD. NORAD's predecessor, Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD), also situated in Colorado Springs, started the tradition after a Colorado Springs store's advertisement for children.....
Click here to see Santa position in real time

I would like to wish all the IFC members a very Merry Christmas and a happy healthy new year.

73

Doug(KC8FKS)

As children in Central Florida and around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, Santa and NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) landing convoy team are rumored to have conducted secret exercises to address any possible contingencies that might arise during Santa's annual space flight.

We have added two other maps under TRACK THE STATION block.Now there are available maps with autoupdating function and you don't need to reload manually the image longer.

The ISS FanClub Staff

Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
One year ago this week, NASA ground controllers deactivated Deep Space
1--an extraordinary spacecraft that tested a dozen advanced technologies
and then, as a bonus, flew perilously close to the nucleus of a comet.
The craft is asleep now, permanently, but perhaps it has one more
contribution to make ... to the field of archeology in the next
millennium.

FULL STORY at NASA

A Breathtaking Saturn During Closest Encounter

Saturn slices through the Taurus as Orion looks on
Huntsville - Dec 17, 2002

Thirty years ago, Earth and Saturn had an extraordinary close encounter. The ringed planet was only 1.2 billion km from Earth--about as close as it can get--and its rings were tipped toward us. The view through a telescope was simply breathtaking. Next week it's going to happen again.

It started on Saturday, Dec. 7th, when our planet entered a cloud of dusty space-debris. The meteor rate is low now, because we're still in the outskirts of the cloud, but it will increase as Earth penetrates the debris field. "We expect to see more than 100 meteors per hour when the shower peaks on Saturday, Dec. 14th," says Bill Cooke of the NASA/Marshall Space Environments Team.

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