European Space Agency scientists are looking for volunteers willing to spend three months in bed to help them study the physiological effects of weightlessness. Shanghai appeared convinced on Friday that an unidentified flying object had visited China's commercial capital. Now's Mission Status Center for the latest on the effort to make contact. Less than a day after NASA finally set a date for the launch of shuttle Discovery on a mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, a new problem has cropped up that could force another delay. There has been no word from the Mars Polar Lander probe, which if all went according to plan, should be on the surface of the Red Planet not far from the south pole.
Ground controllers continue seek signals from the craft.
Now's Mission Status Center for the latest on the effort to make contact. See our reports about the final countdown and launch. The result of the orbit-raising burns placed the station in a 245 by 238 statute mile orbit in preparation for the arrival of the Zvezda service module early next year. On Tuesday the European Space Agency's ERS-2 remote sensing satellite detected abnormally low ozone levels over north western Europe. Above the UK, Belgium, Netherlands and Scandinavia ozone levels were nearly as low as those normally found in the Antarctic.