December 15, 2006 was a historic day for space exploration and for disc players everywhere. One of our own, Christer Fuglesang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christer_Fuglesang) of Sweden is currently aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Christer was live broadcasted on the national Swedish channel TV4, and as part of that program he also attempted two MTA “throws” in the zero gravity of the shuttle. The first try got away from him, but the second attempt was timed at 20.52 …

Watch it at http://www.tv4.se/player/categories.aspx?progId=90255&itemId=&treeId=1004&displayTreeId This is an interesting article published before the event: http:// www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16243361.htm

On Friday, December 15th, the European Space Agency is the host of a unique sporting event. Supported by the World Flying Disc Federation, the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation are proud to sanction this unprecedented event. Christer Fuglesang, ESA astronaut on the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission STS-116, will attempt to break the world record in the flying disc sporting discipline MTA, Maximum Time Aloft. The competition will start at seven minutes past seven GMT in the …

A draft version of the WFDF 2007 Rules of Ultimate is available for comment. We have set up a forum at http://groups.google.com/group/wfdf-2007-rules for public comment. It is not expected that major changes will make it into the 2007 version at this late stage, but all comments will be taken into account when drafting the 2008 version. The 2007 rules are expected to be approved for release early in the new year.

As follow-up to a successful WFDF Asia-Oceanic regional meeting held at the World Ultimate Club Championships in Perth, WFDF is sending out this request for proposals to host the First WFDF Asia Pacific Ultimate Championships (APUC) to be held in the second half of 2007.

WFDF would like to announce it’s newly appointed Executive Director, Anne-Marie Carey. She will be taking on the part time position (approximately 20 hours per week) which involves administrative/organizational functions, communications and event management roles with WFDF.

Elections are coming up shortly and the Nominating Committee is still accepting applications by candidates.

The agenda and delegate materials for the WFDF Congress 2006 are now available. A number of reports have been added to the materials previously published.

WFDF will be hosting an Asia Region Caucus during the upcoming World Ultimate Club Championship in Perth to bring together organizers from the Asian region. The meeting is scheduled for Saturday the 11th of November, at 20:00 at a place to be announced shortly.

A new set of rules for Disc Golf proposed by the WFDF Disc Golf committee were ratified by the WFDF Board of Directors on October 1st.