Space Forum / Space Station / September 2006

Europe/France did an experimental 0g surgery abourd a specially equipped
Airbus A300 aircraft that did parabolic trajectory to provide short
periods of 0 G to perform surgery.
This was the removal of a small skin cancer on a volunteer's arm(so not

I was looking for the ISS future assembly sequence, and got off track looking
at past missions.  The Pirs assembly page at:
 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/pirs.html
states:

True Fans Of
Ganguly
And
Sania Mirza

EXPEDITION 14 - ANSARI DOCKING TO ISS
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=999

The website has a composite image of Madonna performing some
soirt of oral docking to the Mir space station (?!?!?!?!?).....
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060913/53845036.html
     Madonna could be sent into space in 2009 - Russian Space Agency

AMERICA IN DANGER    of its own   out-of-control   Bio-Terror:
              Is 1984 here? Or cripping...         God help us,
blinded!
Originally Secret Bio-Aerosols are misused to HARM and Torture in

BBC showed live coverage (from NASA TV) of the Soyuz liftoff with Mrs
Ansari going to the space station.

Harmful chemical leaks in space station, AP
"We don't exactly know the nature of the spill ... but the crew is doing
well," said Mike Suffredini, NASA's space station program manager. "It's
not a life-threatening material."

EXPEDITION 14 / ANSARI LAUNCH + Higher Resolution Video
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=978

Right now, the US segment depends on the shuttle to connect to PMA2,
hookup a few pipes so that the station can draw O2 and N2 from the
shuttle and replenish the tanks on Quest. Those not only service EVA
activities, but also are meant to provide breathable atmosphere to the

Looking at the live transmission from the ISS, it seems to have som kind
of gravity??
Anybody who can help me here.

Re: http://www.dailycolonial.com/go.dc?p=3&s=2952
Somebody should tell Brittany Levine about the realities
of space travel. When she writes that "Ansari and
14 crew members of the U.S.-Russian Expedition

I've fired up J-Tracker 3D for the latest mission, and I can't find
"Station" or Shuttle in there, it used to be in the list of NASA
satellites. Does anyone know why they would have taken it out?
Thanks