The New York Times Broadcast Group and New York Times Digital today announced their hosting of an online conversation with the NASA Space Shuttle mission. The New York Times Company properties were selected from hundreds of media requests made to NASA to cover this event. John Herrington, an Oklahoma member of the Chickasaw Nation, is the first Native American astronaut to enter.....

International Launch Services regrets the failure of today's mission to put the ASTRA 1K satellite into proper orbit for SES-ASTRA.

The Proton K rocket, built by Khrunichev, lifted off on time at 4:04 a.m. today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.....

The Shenzhou module will give China an initial on orbit manned platform to begin learning the difficult business of manned spaceflight ....

Just modified the Real Time World Map and added the Space Shuttle STS-113 en route to the ISS.

See on the TRACK THE STATION to the left on this page

The ISS FanClub Staff

NASA Science News for November 18, 2002

With millions of people watching, the International Space Station will glide over North America during the 2002 Leonid meteor storm.

PCsat2:The Telemetry Command Communications project called PCsat2 is being conducted under the USNA Small Satellite program...

On November 13, President George W. Bush submitted an amendment
to his fiscal year 2003 budget request to accelerate
implementation of a new Integrated Space Transportation Plan
(ISTP) for NASA.....

On November 11, the first tribally registered Native American astronaut will lift off into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the 16th American assembly flight to the International Space Station.

Vital Statistics:

WEIGHT: ISS: 166,118 kg (366,227 lbs.)

Major Elements:

Zarya: 19,958 kg (44,000 lbs.)

Unity: 11,612 kg (25,600 lbs.)

Zvezda: 22,135 kg (48,800 lbs.) .......

NASA announced a contest, which will give American school kids a chance to make history, by naming two rovers being launched to explore Mars. The robotic explorers are part of NASA's upcoming Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission.