There are rumors about the possibility of leaving the ISS unmanned for a bout a year if Russians will fail to deliver their Progress and Soyuz spaceships.

MSNBC wrote a nice article about it. Comments are welcomed.

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 Robin Haighton, VEFRH the AMSAT-NA president wrote:
... Earlier this month the... ARISS team held one of their semi-annual meetings at... NASA/Goddard near Washington D.C. with...

The ISS Fan Club is proud to announce the introduction of the "ISS Achievement Award".
The IAA is the first ham-radio award issued for the ISS, it is printed on picture quality paper and is so beautiful that your radio shack simply cannot miss it.
Clich HERE for more information.

ISS Partners Agree To Spend More Taxpayer Funds

very expensive eye candy

Paris (ESA) Dec 12, 2002

Space agency leaders from the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia met in Tokyo, Japan, December 6, 2002, to review and further promote International Space Station (ISS) cooperation.

Teacher to Fly in Space

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced that Barbara Morgan, the agency’s first Educator Astronaut, has been assigned as a crewmember on STS-118, a November 2003 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Hi all,

reading last message list posted by Jan pe2jmr my attention focused on these three messages:

1010 P 02/12/09 02:28 RV3FB KD7SDF Hi from Mattie, 6 yrs old

1009 P 02/12/08 23:15 RS0ISS KD7SDF Hi to all on ISS

1008 P 02/12/08 23:13 KD5JBP KD7SDF Hi from Mattie, 6 yrs old

The final pieces of what will become the longest structure in space, the International Space Station's football-field-long backbone, are being shipped to Florida next week.

The leaders of the five space agencies that are

International Partners in the International Space Station met

Friday in Tokyo and concluded work on the 2002 Program Action

Plan.

"This is a significant step forward in our objective to

develop a unique science and research laboratory for

breakthrough opportunities never before achieved.

Hi All,

we decided to organize a online meeting on the webchat for Sunday 8th Dec at 17.00 GMT.

We hope to see you on the chat!

The IFC staff

Wright Stuff Celebration

The Wright brothers' quest to fly was born of a dream to achieve the impossible. "The remarkable events of Dec. 17, 1903, changed our world forever," said Administrator O'Keefe. As an official partner of the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission, NASA plans activities during 2003 to commemorate the Wright brothers' first powered flight on the sands of Kitty Hawk, N.C., and to increase awareness about flight-related achievements. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC will host a kick off tribute on Dec. 17, 2002