1.   A red British double-decker bus will be available to shuttle visitors during the festival.

2.   Shuttle visitors would get first dibs on Mir collectibles.

3.   The station crew, about one quarter through its four-month stay, is expected to open hatches and greet the shuttle visitors on Friday.

4.   It will serve as the base for a solar panel that will be installed in December by the next shuttle visitors.

5.   The astronauts installed a docking port to be used by future shuttle visitors and an aluminum framework housing antennas and motion-control gyroscopes.

6.   The shuttle visitors also left the space station in a much higher orbit.

7.   A giant car-park has been cleared outside Jericho, and preparations are being made to shuttle visitors into town by buses.