The messages, scheduled for transmission February 14, 2000, from Evpatoriya Deep Space Center, Ukraine, will be those submitted on-line by millions of people all over the world who visit TimesSquare2000.com and Encounter2001.com beginning New Year�s Eve and submit their millennial messages online in real time throughout New Year�s Day.

The Millennial Archive -- Encounter 2001 will compile video footage from New Year�s Eve celebrations from around the world, and launch them aboard the Encounter 2001 spacecraft, scheduled for launch in the year 2001.

As a salute to the TimesSquare2000 concept, �the Global Celebration at the Crossroads of the World," the footage will contain a "cultural moment," highlighting the sights and sounds of 24 cultures of the world reflecting a gala Millennium celebration of the planet�s peoples and cultures as each enters the New Millennium.

Also aboard the spacecraft will be Encounter 2001 participants� messages, photos, and even biochemical signatures (in the form of a hair sample). This millennial voyage will use the gravitational pull of Jupiter to slingshot the Encounter spacecraft out of the solar system (just as the Pioneer and Voyager spacecrafts did).

"The TimesSquare2000.com millennial celebration unites countries and cultures around the world as a universal symbol of welcoming the New Year," says Charles Chafer, president of Encounter 2001,LLC. "What better message to reflect the cultures of Earth than a globally united archive of messages and video."

This "Cosmic Call" has been developed by: Encounter 2001, LLC (Houston, TX), and Energia, LTD (Alexandria, VA), the US representative of the Russian aerospace company that operates the MIR space station program and is the prime Russian contractor for the new International Space Station.

The Millennial Cosmic Call will be transmitted from the world�s largest steerable deep space radio astronomy dish in the former Soviet Union. Part I of the Millennial Cosmic Call contains specially designed scientific messages about Earth and humanity, written in a unique code intended as a "Rosetta Stone" for recipients.

Part II will include personal messages from millions of people who participate through TimesSquare2000.com and Encounter2001.com, including messages already submitted from participants in America, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

"Despite modern telecommunications, only once in the history of humanity has a high-powered message been sent in the direction of other worlds---and that 1974 message was limited to only a few scientists," says Chan Tysor, vice-president of Encounter 2001, LLC.

"The Millennial Cosmic Call is part two of a series of Cosmic Calls�, another of humanity�s early efforts to accomplish perhaps its greatest social, technological and spiritual imperative: First Contact," added Tysor.

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