At this site, users can learn about the assembly sequence and timeline, science and research planned for the station, crews and training, and partner nations and their various roles. In addition, the Gallery offers a number of images and video segments in mpeg and Quicktime formats. The Universal Currency Converter site was developed by Xenon Laboratories. It provides currency conversion for most of the currencies in the world. The conversion rates for the currency are provided by The Bank of Montreal's Treasury Group.
Visitors can also obtain a currency table for a selected base currency.
The site also provides prices for silver, gold and platinum in the various currencies. Virtual Polyhedra Virtual Polyhedra is a beautiful new site created by computer scientist George W. Hart and devoted to polyhedra of all types. There you can find information on 17 different major classes of polyhedra with illustrations. The real meat of the site, however, comes from the ability to view 3D models of over 850 individual polyhedra from your Web browser using VRML, the Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Information in the newsletter is collected and verified by NCSI staff.