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Silver Spring, MD
March 31, 1996 at 23:30 UTC
The STS-76 Space Shuttle mission officially ended on SDunday, March 31, with a
13:29 UTC landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Unpredictable weather
at the Kennedy Space Center forced mission controllers to land the Space Shuttle
Atlantis at the backup Edwards landing site.
This mission also carried on-board the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
(SAREX). SAREX is a secondary payload which provides the opportunity for
school groups and ham radio operators to talk to the astronauts while they
are in orbit.
Unfortunately, the Shuttle Crew was too busy with primary payload
(Shuttle/MIR) activities to support SAREX operations during the first five
days of the mission. Unfortunately the compression of the mission timeline
to land a day early resulted in the cancellation of the five school group
contacts that had been planned late in the
mission. The SAREX team will be working with these school groups to
reschedule their contacts on a future flight. The SAREX team points out
that SAREX is a secondary payload aboard space shuttles and primary payload
concerns take precedence.
Astronaut Shannon Lucid is now a member of the MIR crew for the next 4 and a
half months. The Russians have approved her use of the MIR radio on 2 meters,
with the call sign R0MIR. Look for Lucid from MIR on 145.55 simplex as she
passes over the United States.
Submitted by Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO, for the SAREX Working Group
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