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AMSAT News Service Bulletin 102.04 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. April 11, 2004
To All RADIO AMATEURS
BID: $ANS-102.04
1. Saint-Mard Schools Contact Successful
The two schools of Saint-Mard, "College Georges Brassens of Saint Mard" and
the "Jacques Prevert School," both located north of Paris, France
experienced a successful contact with Mike Foale, KB5UAC, on April 1. The
contact took place at 18:27 UTC. The students' teacher, Jocelyn Raffray,
F5CAR relayed ten questions of the students to Foale. The students asking
the questions, the technical team and the educational team participating in
the contact were located in the radio room during the contact, while the
contact was relayed via amateur television to the school's main hall for an
audience of 150 students, teachers, parents, and media.
2.. Sonoran Sky School Contact Successful
The school group contact between Sonoran Sky Elementary, Scottsdale,
Arizona and the ISS was a tremendous success. Astronaut Mike Foale,
KB5UAC, answered 21 questions (22 asked) during the 10 minute ham radio
contact. This contact is the final school group contact for Expedition
8. The contact started as scheduled at 1834 UTC. It was a tremendous
horizon-to-horizon pass contact with every second utilized wisely. The
contact was broadcast live at the school via amateur television where
approximately 500 students participated. The contact will then be replayed
to the entire Scottsdale School district, which includes 44 schools, 30
elementary schools and 35,000 students. There was significant press at the
contact, including Channel 10--Fox news, Channel 3 KTVK, Channel 12 NBC,
and the Arizona Republic and Scottsdale Tribune newspapers.
Sonoran Sky is expected to be the last Expedition 8 contact. Thank you Mike
and Alexsandr for making all of the ARISS contacts possible.
Normal ARISS contacts are expected to resume on or after 2004-05-24.
3. ARRL Article on Ham Radio Licensed Astronauts' Promotions
On April 2, The ARRL Letter, which is distributed to 165,000 people,
published an article about astronauts who are hams who have been promoted to
key positions at NASA JSC. See:
http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/04/0402/
4. ARRL Sets up Booth at Science Teachers Association Conference
On March 29, ARRL's Mark Spencer went on travel in order to set up and staff
a booth at the National Science Teachers Association national conference.
He
took handout materials and hands-on items to attract the attention of
teachers, and thanks NASA for their support.
5. ARISS Delegates Follow-up Activities from ARISS International Meeting
With the ARISS International Meeting a tremendous success, the ARISS
Delegates are following up the meeting with necessary activities and
completion of action items. Rosalie White, ARISS Secretary Treasurer, edited
the minutes she took at the ARISS International Meeting held at the European
Space Agency in the Netherlands. She then debriefed the ARRL Board, her
management and ARRL's media branch on news from the meeting. Many of the
delegates and committee members are handling action items from the list
which was developed at the meetings.
6. Space Tourist Interested in ARISS Program
Dr. Gregory Olsen, a scientist who started his own company, Sensors
Unlimited, Inc., headed to Star City, Russia last week to begin training for
an eight day flight in space. As the next space tourist to take a ride on
the Soyuz, Olsen plans to do some research of his own. He has also expressed
an interest in the ARISS program and would like to make some school contacts
while aboard the ISS. He would like to train for his Amateur Radio license
with Nick Lance of JSC. He is scheduled to launch in April, 2005. For more
information, see:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/03/29/space.tourist.ap/index.html
[ANS thanks Carol for the above information]
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