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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:11:00 -0400
From: "Inderbitzen, Bob, NQ1R" <rinderbitz@arrl.org>
Subject: Astronauts Contact US Navy Ship By Ham R
Cc: "SAREX@AMSAT" <SAREX@amsat.org>
From:
Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R
Educational Activities Department
American Radio Relay League
email sarex@arrl.org
Excerpts here are taken directly from NASA's Shuttle Web site
(http://shuttle.nasa.gov), June 26, 1996.
During their presleep period yesterday, four crewmembers took half an hour
to answer questions posed to the Shuttle Web's "Ask the Crew a Question"
feature. Astronauts Terence Henricks, Richard Linnehan, Bob Thirsk (VA3CSA),
and Charles Brady (N4BQW) took turns responding to questions from the
Internet on subjects ranging from exercise to smuggling snacks.
One of the questions was submitted by SAREX volunteer Pat Kilroy, WD8LAQ of
Bowie, Maryland. His message was directed to astronaut Chuck Brady, N4BQW:
"How important a role will SAREX play on this mission and on future
International Space Station missions?"
Chuck Brady replies:
"Well Pat, I really think it's tremendously important. In fact, from Norm
Thagard's experience and Shannon Lucid's experience on Mir and your
experience, Chris [Hadfield (KC5RNJ), CAPCOM], I think the longer the stay
the more important it is to have that kind of personal contact back to
Earth, and it's something I think will play a real important role in helping
morale, and keeping the psychological adjustment steady aboard station.
Interestingly enough, we just made a SAREX contact to a U.S. Navy ship at
sea, the USS Essex, which was about a thousand miles off the coast of San
Diego, and they'd been on quite a long deployment and I think really enjoyed
it from their end and we certainly did here onboard (Space Shuttle)
Columbia."
Communications with Earth continued today as Pilot Kevin Kregel discussed
the progress of the fifth Shuttle mission of the year with students at
Bethlehem Central Senior High School in Delmar, N.Y., using the Shuttle
Amateur Radio EXperiment, and Payload Specialist Bob Thirsk, VA3CSA, took up
the ham radio gear to make contact with students at the Saskatoon Public
Aerospace Education school in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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