Because of Hurricane Rita, ISS Mission Control Center (MCC-H) has shut down activities, after handing over ISS monitoring to HSG (Houston Support Group) in Moscow.  MCC/MOD ops file and email servers at JSC are not available for ascertaining the current on-orbit status y nominal means because monitoring and command of ISS systems are handled from Moscow, though limited..  By way of uplinked time tagged (pre-stored) commands via TDRS satellites, systems were put in autonomous mode with the crew as prime for system monitoring.  The time tags will keep data flowing for ~7-8 days.  Data can be viewed on the Internet via remote flight controllers. If the loss of MCC-H is long, a more permanent flight control team will move to Moscow.   The teams have practiced the use of HSG at TsUP/Moscow as BCC (BackupControl Center) for this mode of operation many times and are well prepared.

CEO photography can be viewed and studied at the websites:

• http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov
• http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
• http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/AstronautPhotography/

See also the website "Space Station Challenge" at:

• http://voyager.cet.edu/iss/

To view the latest photos taken by the expedition 11 crew visit:

• http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/ndxpage1.html at NASA's Human Spaceflight website.

Expedition 11 Flight Crew Plans can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/timelines/

Previous NASA ISS On-orbit Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Station Status Reports can be found here. Previous NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Reports can be found here. A collection of all of these reports and other materials relating to Return to Flight for the Space Shuttle fleet can be found here.

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Upcoming Events (all times EDT):

• 09/30/05 -- Soyuz TMA-7/11S launch (~11:54pm)
• 10/03/05 -- Soyuz TMA-7/11S docking (~1:20am)
• 10/11/05 -- Soyuz TMA-6/10S landing (~9:06pm)
• 10/18/05 -- ISS Reboost
• 11/18/05 -- Soyuz TMA-7/11S relocation (from DC-1 to FGB nadir port)
• 12/21/05 – Progress M-55/20P launch
• 12/23/05 -- Progress M-55/20P docking.

Apogee height -- Mean Altitude -- Perigee height

For more on ISS orbit and worldwide ISS naked-eye visibility dates/times, see http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/station/viewing/issvis.html. In addition, information on International Space Station sighting opportunities can be found at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ on NASA's Human Spaceflight website. The current location of the International Space Station can be found at http://science.nasa.gov/temp/StationLoc.html at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Additional satellite tracking resources can be found at http://www.spaceref.com/iss/tracking.html.

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