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Subj: New Two-Ham ISS Crew Makes Human Spaceflight History
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 124.03 From AMSAT HQ
Silver Spring, MD. May 4, 2003
To All Radio Amateurs
BID: $ANS-124.03
There are five Amateur Radio operators aboard the International Space
Station this week. The Expedition 6 crew of Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JB=
P,
NASA ISS Science Officer Don Pettit, KD5MDT, and Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB,
today welcomed Expedition 7 crew members Commander Yuri Malenchenko, RK3D=
UP,
and Ed Lu, KC5WKJ.
"The two crews will conduct joint operations this week," NASA announced.
"Among their handover activities, Expedition 6 crewmembers will brief the
new crew about ongoing science and station maintenance activities." The t=
wo
crews will spend six days together on the ISS.
Over the weekend, Malenchenko and Lu became the first primary ISS crew to
travel to the ISS via a Russian Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft instead of arrivin=
g
on a US space shuttle. They launched April 26 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan. After the successful docking at the ISS, the crews began
transferring clothing and supplies carried into orbit on the new Soyuz. T=
hey
are scheduled to conduct a safety briefing later today.
NASA has grounded its shuttle fleet while it continues to investigate the
February 1 Columbia STS-107 mission disaster, in which seven astronauts
died. On his flight to the ISS, Lu wore an STS-107 patch on his spacesuit.
He told reporters that he and Malenchenko were doing what the lost
astronauts and their families would have wanted them to do by continuing
space exploration.
Malenchenko and Lu are the first visitors to the ISS in more than four
months. After a successful docking, hatches between the ISS and the Soyuz
were opened, and Malenchenko and Lu entered the ISS today (April 28) at 0=
727
UTC. Bowersox, Pettit and Budarin, who have been aboard the orbital outpo=
st
since November 25, will depart for Earth May 3 using the Soyuz TMA-1 vehi=
cle
that's been docked at the space station for several months.
Malenchenko and Lu are slated to spend six months aboard the station,
conducting a series of scientific and educational activities. Russian
Progress rockets will deliver supplies to the ISS during their stay. Both
men are space-travel veterans who worked together in 2000 on an ISS
construction-phase shuttle mission.
The five space travelers are scheduled to take part in a news conference
April 29 at 1530 UTC. NASA TV, available on some cable systems, will carr=
y
the news conference live.
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information]
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