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Subj: Teen Astronomers at Brussels Planetarium Speak via
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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 215.09 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. August 9, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-215.09
Teenaged members of an amateur astronomers' club enjoyed an opportunity
to speak via ham radio with someone in space July 24. The Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact originated at
Brussels Planetarium, an annex of the Royal Observatory of Belgium.
Contact participants got to ask 13 questions of astronaut Ed Lu,
KC5WKJ, at the controls of NA1SS aboard the ISS. In response to one
youth's question, Lu said he and the Expedition 7 crew commander,
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP, get along well in part
because they have been in space together before. Lu said if others were
able to share his and Malenchenko's perspective on Earth the
experience might contribute to world peace.
Handling Earth station duties for the contact was Gerald Klatzko,
ZS6BTD, in Johannesburg, South Africa. An MCI teleconferencing circuit
provided two-way audio between South Africa and the Brussels
Planetarium, where the teenagers and ARISS Vice Chairman Gaston
Bertels, ON4WF, used a speakerphone. MCI also provided streaming audio
to the Web. The planetarium's public address system made contact audio
available for an audience of about 100 people, Bertels said.
Two TV and one radio station covered the event and interviewed the
teenaged astronomers afterward. The Belga press agency also was on
hand. In the planetarium, the participants and those looking on could
see the ISS replicated on the planetarium's hemispheric dome.
ARISS is an international project with participation by ARRL, AMSAT and
NASA.
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.]
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