Walter Nissen has provided some excerpts from the press kit for STS-63 which he obtained from hot news on spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov. I have made them available on the archive. Send a message with Subject: archive get sts/sts63.txt to seesat-l-request@iris01.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de He says that besides the spectacular observing opportunities afforded in the next week by the planned Mir-shuttle rendezvous, STS-63 will also re- lease a free-flying Spartan and ODERACS spheres. STS-63 prelaunch elements 1 99963U 95033.30079147 .00130549 00000-0 12842-3 0 35 2 99963 51.6490 114.5633 0080613 5.0856 355.0928 16.04842332 25 And a reminder that Neil Clifford has WWW-pages with up-to-date predictions of the STS 63 for many European cities. Tune your web-reader to this URL : http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~ncliffor/satintro.html Let's hope the weather cooperates a little bit. Cheers, Bart