Cosmonaut Nikolai Rukavishnikov, who encountered hair-raising problems on two of his three space missions for the Soviet Union, died Saturday of a heart attack, Russian media reported. He was 70.

When Chief Umpire Jerry Crawford calls for the traditional ceremonial first pitch in the first game of the World Series Saturday, the ball will "virtually" travel more than 240 miles, all the way from the International Space Station (ISS) to Anaheim, Calif.

We added two new interesting lines in the INFO POINT Section.
- New 3D Virtual ISS Tour
- ISS Training Manual

A Russian Soyuz launcher exploded some 20 seconds after lift-off from the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome last night (15 October) at 20:20 CEST (Central European Summer Time).

The Soyuz-U booster rocket is one of the most reliable Russian spacecraft, the official said. "We haven't had an accident for 11 years with this Soyuz booster rocket," he said.

We had just received this message from Frank Bauer, KA3HDO - ARISS Chairman and ISS FanClub Staff extends his condolences to Thomas's family and his wife Gaby. Sure we have lost an important Technical Manager

The German amateur satellite organization, AMSAT-DL, has proposed sending an amateur radio satellite to Mars!

As envisioned, the satellite would be a "mother ship" for launching smaller probes that would transmit back information about the Martian atmosphere and surface,as well as a repeater that would beam that information back to earth.

For more information, see the AMSAT-DL website at http://www.amsat-dl.org/p5a/p5a-to-mars.pdf

So we finally have a winner: KC7QYR Michael from Seattle is the lucky winner of the IFC gift.

To pick is name up we used a computer program wich generated a random number between 1 and 130 (the range of numbers where the first 100 valid subscribers where located).

We a valid number (101) at first try.

Michael wins a wonderful picture of the ISS crew#1 signed by Krikalev and Gidzenko at the Iss Forum 2001 in Berlin.

Congratulations Michael !

"AMSAT-OSCAR 7, the amateur satellite launched in 1974 suddenly came back on the air this summer after two decades of silence. Command operator Mike Seguin,nijez, reports success in sending various commands to the satellite; and slow scan enthusiasts have been exchanging sstv pics viaAO-7.

Some photos posted on the CQ web site."

Best 73 to all the team !

I just subscribe at our fanclub, and think this web is the best Url where the fans of ISS must come !
So, it's a good things to information with the Progress mission.