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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/K7BONEKNMG5VDSWWAANIW76FBOBLXZQS/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "K7BONEKNMG5VDSWWAANIW76FBOBLXZQS", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/PDY36IHBMBSPOE2YXRYJ2K3KVCZI72J7/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "wao (a) vfr.net", "mailman_id": "9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/9057def1436c407fa55c4988db05914a/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "Joe Spier", "subject": "[amsat-bb] ANS-202", "date": "2013-07-21T06:35:17Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PDY36IHBMBSPOE2YXRYJ2K3KVCZI72J7/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/HAMP2DVRLXCLZIC2DLE6OBTWHL7A6CWH/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "AMSAT NEWS SERVICE\nANS-202\n\nThe AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and infor-\nmation service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite\nCorporation. ANS publishes news related to Amateur Radio in Space\nincluding reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur\nRadio operators who share an active interest in designing, building,\nlaunching and communicating through analog and digital Amateur Radio\nsatellites.\n\nThe news feed on http://www.amsat.org publishes news of Amateur\nRadio in Space as soon as our volunteers can post it.\n\nPlease send any amateur satellite news or reports to:\nans-editor at amsat.org.\n\nIn this edition:\n\n* 2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Mailed July 15th\n* Space Station ARISS Software Upgraded by Student For Students\n* ARRL Teacher's Institute in Wireless Technology makes Satellite Contacts\n* UKube-1 with Amateur Radio Transponder may launch in October\n* ARISS Contact with Boy Scouts of America, 2013 National Jamboree, K2BSA,\n Mount Hope, WV\n* ARISS Contact with Colegio Urugua, El Pinar, Uruguay\n* ARISS Contact with Scuola Italiana di Montevideo (SIM), Montevideo, \nUruguay\n* ARISS Contact with ESA Space Camp 2013, Radstadt, Austria\n* Satellite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nSB SAT @ AMSAT $ANS-202.01\nANS-202 AMSAT News Service Weekly Bulletins\n\nAMSAT News Service Bulletin 202.01\n From AMSAT HQ SILVER SPRING, MD.\nJuly 21, 2013\nTo All RADIO AMATEURS\nBID: $ANS-202.01\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n2013 AMSAT-NA Board of Directors Ballot Mailed July 15th.\n\nThis year there are eight candidates running for the AMSAT-NA Board of\nDirectors. The four candidates receiving the highest number of votes\nwill be seated as voting Board Members with two year terms. The two\ncandidates receiving the next highest number of votes will be\nnon-voting Alternate Board Members with terms of one year. Please\nvote for no more than four candidates.\n\nBallots were mailed to members in good standing by July 15th, and\nmust be returned to the AMSAT-NA office no later than the close of\nbusiness on September 15th, 2013. If you have not received your ballot\nby August 5th, please contact the AMSAT Office. Ballots sent to\nmembers outside North America are automatically sent via air mail. It\nis suggested that they be returned the same way.\n\nAMSAT-NA Board candidates in alphabetical order by last name:\n\nBarry Baines, WD4ASW\nAlan Biddle, WA4SCA\nSteve Coy, K8UD\nFrank Griffin, K4FEG\nMark Hammond, N8MH\nBrian Klofas, KF6ZEO\nJoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM\nTony Monteiro, AA2TX\n\n[ANS thanks the AMSAT Office for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nSpace Station ARISS Software Upgraded by Student For Students\n\n\nNolan Replogle hasn't yet had the chance to speak with an astronaut, but he\nwould sure like to. And now, thanks in part to the work he did as a NASA\nintern, other students around the world will have a better chance for\nopportunities to do just that-have live contact with International Space\nStation (ISS) astronauts.\n\n\"Yeah, I'd love to talk to astronauts! Who wouldn't?\" said Replogle. \"I \nthink\nit's really cool! I can imagine it really helps inspire a lot of kids. I \nthink\nthat's the main purpose [of the ISS Ham Radio project], to inspire and \nengage\nkids to learn about space exploration.\"\n\nReplogle interned with the Education Projects Office at NASA's Johnson Space\nCenter in Houston from January to April. His role was to update the planning\nsoftware for the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS),\nwhich is used to help schedule contact events.\n\n\"I brought Nolan on board to upgrade the current ARISS mission planning\nsoftware, which was critical for scheduling,\" said Jane Gensler, former \nmanager\nof the Education Projects Office. \"The software was one-fault tolerant,\noutdated, user and time intensive. We wanted to update it to something \nthat was\nuser-friendly with a graphic user interface, efficient and with reduced user\nerror where possible.\"\n\nThe original software's lack of a user interface meant that people needed to\ninput data directly into text files, and then run the program to see if it\nworked. As a computer engineering major at Oklahoma State University, \nReplogle\nquickly got to work using his programming skills to create a more \nuser-friendly\ninterface for the software. Replogle named the upgraded software ARISS\nAssistant (ARRISA).\n\n\"The software was virtually impossible to use, unless you spent days and \ndays\nstudying it,\" said Replogle.\n\n\"The developer didn't develop it to be distributed, but for his own use, so\nfor that reason he was the only one who really knew how to use it. It was\nconvoluted in a lot of ways, and the technology was outdated. So, my \ngoal was\nto make it easier to use to save time. The most challenging part was \ntrying to\ninterpret the original author's code and program, because I had to \nunderstand\nthat to translate it to this new technology.\"\n\nNow, with Replogle's updates, there is a graphic user interface that allows\nusers to click on buttons to enter information into text boxes. This \nautomated\nfeature is more intuitive and requires a lot less data entry.\n\nAn added feature of the software allows for more efficient integration \nof the\ndata generated by ARISSA to planning tools used by NASA's Trajectory \nOperations\nOfficer (TOPO) console position in the Mission Control Center at \nJohnson. The\nTOPO uses data from ARISSA as a baseline for upcoming space station \ncontacts,\nupdating the inputs for accuracy as the event date approaches.\n\n\"I was broad in my description to Nolan of the project, not understanding a\nlot of the programming and steps,\" said Gensler. \"He took the initiative to\nmake it his project and took it to a level that I could not have \nenvisioned -\nnot being an expert in this area.\"\n\nNASA's Teaching from Space Office works in coordination with the global \nARISS\nvolunteer team for the ISS Ham Radio project to put students in touch with\nastronauts orbiting 220 miles above the schools on Earth. The students have\nabout 10 minutes to ask the astronauts aboard the station space-related\nquestions about living in microgravity, science, technology and any \nnumber of\nother curiosities that come from their creative minds.\n\nTo plan for these contacts, organizers have to predict the location of the\nspace station in orientation to the ground. With this knowledge, they \npinpoint\nthe dates, times and geography of possible connections. This is where the\nARRISA software comes into play as a forecasting tool.\n\n\"Everybody I've shown it to says it looks pretty impressive,\" said Replogle.\n\"I demonstrated it to various groups from ARISS, and they said they were\nexcited about using it.\"\n\nWith Replogle's upgrades, Gensler anticipates increases in efficiency and\nreduced errors, which may lead to more contact opportunities between \nstudents\nand crews of the space station.\n\nUpcoming contacts currently include the Boy Scouts of America 2013 National\nJamboree in Mt. Hope, W. Va., scheduled to take place during the week of \nJuly\n18-23. ARISS planners use the software to identify multiple options for \nexact\ndates and times; they finalize the event one week before the contact.\n\n\"The undergraduate student workforce is amazing and can bring innovation,\ncreativity and efficiencies into our programs for little cost with big\nbenefits,\" said Gensler.\n\n\"I'm not a software engineer or a computer programmer, but I can find \nsomeone\nlike Nolan who is passionate about programming and wants to work for \nNASA and\nmake a positive difference in our products and services. His success in\nupgrading the mission planning system in such a short timeframe makes me \nwant\nto bring more interns in behind him to continue implementation and \ndeveloping\neven more upgrades in other areas.\"\n\nU.S. education organizations interested in hosting an ARISS \ncommunication can\ncontact NASA's Teaching from Space Office for proposal information.\nInternational schools should apply via the ARISS website for consideration.\n\nhttp://www.space-travel.com/reports/\nSpace_Station_ARISS_Software_Upgraded_by_Student_For_Students_999.html\n\n[ANS thanks Jessica Nimon,ISS Science News,for the July 18 article]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARRL Teacher's Institute in Wireless Technology makes Satellite Contacts\n\nEducators attending the ARRL's Teacher's Institute in Wireless Technology at\nRocklin, CA made two satellite contacts utilizing SaudiSat 1C. At \napproximately\n1844 PDT, on July 16, Instructor Tommy Gober, N5DUX, assisted with two\nsuccessful contacts using the W1AW/6 callsign. One successful contact was\nreported to be in Cleveland, Ohio. Tommy used a HT with an Arrow antenna.\n\nFor more information on the ARRL program, please see:\n\nhttp://www.arrl.org/teachers-institute-in-wireless-technology\n\n[ANS thanks Carolyn, KF6JQE for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nUKube-1 with Amateur Radio Transponder may launch in October\n\nBBC News is reporting that the UK Space Agency’s first CubeSat UKube-1, \nbeing\nbuilt by Clyde Space in Glasgow, may launch in late October 2013.\n\nClyde Space Senior Systems Engineer Steve Greenland will be giving a\npresentation on UKube-1 to the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium which\ntakes place July 20-21 at the Holiday Inn, Guildford, GU2 7XZ, UK.\n\nThe Colloquium is open to all but for those unable to attend the event \nall 18\npresentations including UKube-1 will be web streamed live on the BATC \nsite at\n\nhttp://batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=3\n\nUKube-1 will carry a set of AMSAT-UK FUNcube-2 boards which will provide:\n• 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon on 145.915 MHz\n• Linear transponder downlink 145.930-145.950 MHz for SSB/CW communications\n• Linear transponder uplink 435.080-435.060 MHz\n\nIn addition UKube-1 also carries:\n• ISIS 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon on 145.840 MHz\n• UKSEDS myPocketQub 442 on 437.425-437.525 MHz with 11 mW output using \nspread\nspectrum\n• 1 watt transmitter on 2401.0 MHz from Cape Peninsula University of\nTechnology (CPUT), Cape Town, for high data rate mission data \ndownlinking using\nup to 1 Mbps QPSK or OQPSK modulation\n\nGunter’s Space Page lists UKube-1 as manifested on a Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M\nrocket to be launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.\n\nIf the launch does go ahead as planned in late October then the FUNcube-2\nboards will be in orbit before the FUNcube-1 satellite which may launch in\nNovember, 2013 on a Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky near Yasny.\n\nFUNcube-1 will be using these frequencies:\n• 1200 bps BPSK telemetry beacon on 145.935 MHz\n• Linear transponder downlink 145.950-145.970 MHz for SSB/CW communications\n• Linear transponder uplink 435.150-435.130 MHz\n\nThere will be a presentation on FUNcube-1 at the AMSAT-UK International \nSpace\nColloquium which will be streamed live to the web. The presentation \nschedule is\nhere.\n\nRead the BBC News story at\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-23319103\n\n[ANS thanks BBC & AMSAT-UK for the above information]\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Contact with Boy Scouts of America, 2013 National Jamboree, K2BSA, \nMount\nHope, WV\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Boy Scouts of America, 2013 National Jamboree, K2BSA, Mount\nHope, WV on 20 July.\n\nThe event was scheduled to begin at approximately 15:34\nUTC. The duration of the contact was approximately 9 minutes and 30 \nseconds. The\ncontact was scheduled to be direct between NA1SS and K2BSA.\n\nThe Boy Scouts of America held its first national jamboree in 1937. \nThere have\nbeen 17 jamborees since that first one, typically on a four-year \nrotation. The\n2013 National Scout Jamboree will be the 18th such jamboree. Amateur \nradio has\nbeen a part of the jamboree experience since 1953, when K6BSA was in \noperation\nfrom Irvine Ranch in California. That was followed by K3BSA in 1957 at \nValley\nForge, Pennsylvania, and K2BSA in 1964 from Colorado Springs, Colorado. \nK2BSA\nwas established as the amateur radio station for the national office of \nthe BSA\nin 1971. It has been in operation at every jamboree since 1977. Amateur \nradio\nsatellite operations have been an element of the K2BSA program for several\njamborees, and the ARISS direct contact with Space Station Commander Doug\nWheelock during the BSA's centennial national jamboree held at Fort A.P. \nHill,\nVirginia, in 2010 was a highlight of the weeklong K2BSA amateur radio\ndemonstration.\n\n\nParticipants are scheduled to ask as many of the following questions as time\nallows:\n\n\n1. Were you in Scouting as a youth or as an adult leader?\n\n2. In Scouting we practice \"Leave No Trace\", meaning that we leave \ncampsites\n\n as we found them. How do you practice \"Leave No Trace\" in space?\n\n3. I am working on the Robotics Merit Badge and would like to know how \nrobots\n\n are being used on the space station.\n\n4. Have you ever put up a satellite in space?\n\n5. How do you communicate with your family while you are aboard the space\n\n station?\n\n6. What food do you miss the most from Earth?\n\n7. How would you suggest that Scouting promote interest in science,\n\n technology, engineering, and mathematics?\n\n8. What subjects should I study if I want to become an astronaut?\n\n9. Do stars' size and color look different when you see them in space?\n\n10. How many other planets have you seen from the space station?\n\n11. What is the most difficult task during this mission?\n\n12. Can you see meteor showers from the ISS?\n\n13. Do you ever have a good night's sleep on the space station, and do you\n\n dream the same way as you do on Earth?\n\n14. What would you like to do the most after you come back to the earth?\n\n15. What would you like to do in space in the future?\n\n16. How did you become interested in becoming an astronaut?\n\n17. What do you do during your down time aboard the space station?\n\n18. What is the most valuable thing you have learned since becoming an\n\n astronaut?\n\n19. What does it feel like to walk in space?\n\n20. What do you do if someone needs medical attention while in space?\n\n21. What is one goal you want to achieve as an astronaut?\n\n\n(ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN for this ARISS update)\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Contact with Colegio Urugua, El Pinar, Uruguay\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Colegio Urugua, El Pinar, Uruguay on 20 July. The event was\nscheduled to begin at approximately 19:05 UTC. The duration of the \ncontact was\napproximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact was scheduled to be a\ntelebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY.\n\nUrugua is a college of primary education with the permission of the \nnational\nadministration of education and culture (ANEP). It has a total of 200 \npupils\nin the schedules of the morning and evening.\n\nParticipants are scheduled to ask as many of the following questions as time\nallows:\n\n1. What motivation led you to become an astronaut?\n\n2. What are the requirements to be an astronaut?\n\n3. How do astronauts train?\n\n4. How does it feel to go from earth to space?\n\n5. How do they get along with you and have a good relationship?\n\n6. How does oxygen inside the ISS?\n\n7. How and where do their physiological needs?\n\n8. What happen if you throw paint in space?\n\n9. What do you do in your free time on ISS?\n\n10. Do you have something to entertain in free time on ISS?\n\n11. How does it feel to be part of the ISS crew?\n\n12. When you return to earth, do you have a period of adjustment?\n\n13. How is the communication from ISS to the earth?\n\n14. How does see the earth from space?\n\n15. What is the thing that you miss of the Earth?\n\n16. What are the most significant scientific goals achieved with the ISS\n\n program?\n\n17. How does it feel to be in space?\n\n18. From space, we can distinguish some human construction?\n\n19. It was possible to demonstrate the existence of extraterrestrial life?\n\n20. What tasks do during the day on the ISS?\n\n\n(ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN for this ARISS update)\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Contact with Scuola Italiana di Montevideo (SIM), Montevideo, Uruguay\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at Scuola Italiana di Montevideo (SIM), Montevideo, Uruguay \non 22\nJuly. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:39 UTC. The \nduration\nof the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact \nwill be a\ntelebridge between NA1SS and VK5ZAI. The contact should be audible over\nportions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to\nlisten in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be \nconducted\nin Italian.\n\nThe SIM is a prestigious educational institution in Uruguay, which has a\nhistory of 125 years of uninterrupted work. Provides educational services\ncovering all cycles from the Nursery School to High School. Its building\ninfrastructure is established in an area of over 13 hectares, with large \ngreen\nspaces and vast locations closed and open. Our organization has achieved ISO\n9001:2008 certification for the \"Design and provision of education for all\nschool years\" is the only private educational institution in the country \nthat\nhas achieved this award. The Scuola Italiana di Montevideo account for over\nfifteen years with astronomical activities cut across the entire \ninstitution,\nthrough the SIM Astronomical Observatory.\n\nParticipants will ask as many of the following questions (translated) as \ntime\nallows:\n\n\n1. How do you feel about being in a spaceship in space?\n\n2. What most impresses you of the ISS?\n\n3. What is the mission to accomplish in space?\n\n4. What do you do during the day? What do you do at the station?\n\n5. What kind of research carried out on ISS?\n\n6. How long stay in space?\n\n7. Have some free time? How is it used?\n\n8. Feel the lack of friends and family? Are you in contact with them? How?\n\n9. How many people can live on the ISS?\n\n10. How are the tests that you had to overcome to go into space?\n\n11. How to solve the problems of hygiene: the bathroom, washing hands,\n\n washing clothes?\n\n12. It is difficult to return to Earth after the last few months without\n\n gravity?\n\n13. How you can see the Earth and the Sun from ISS?\n\n14. When did you realize to become an astronaut?\n\n15. What led you to become an astronaut and how you did it?\n\n16. What does your family think about you?\n\n17. How eat an astronaut?\n\n18. How is it to live without gravity?\n\n19. What's it like to travel in a spaceship?\n\n20. How many times have you gone to space?\n\n(ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN for this ARISS update)\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nARISS Contact with ESA Space Camp 2013, Radstadt, Austria\n\nAn International Space Station school contact has been planned with\nparticipants at ESA Space Camp 2013, Radstadt, Austria on 24 July. The \nevent is\nscheduled to begin at approximately 11:44 UTC. The duration of the \ncontact is\napproximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge\nbetween NA1SS and VK4KHZ. The contact should be audible over Australia and\nadjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the \n145.80 MHz\ndownlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.\n\nThe European Space Agency (ESA )space Camp 2013 will be held in Austria at\n'JugendhotelBachlehen', 70 km away from Mozart's city of Salzburg, from \nSunday\n14 July to Sunday 28 July 2013.\n\n165 children aged 8 to 17 years old will be participating in this annual \nspace\ncamp from every ESA establishment in Europe where their parents are working.\nThe children will learn in the spirit of international cooperation and team\nwork to be young space explorers.\n\nThe theme of this year's camp is Space Exploration and during the 2 week of\nthe camp the children will be participating in a range of physical and \ncultural\nactivities which will include space education.\n\nThe space education programme will encourage the children problem solve \nhow to\nget to Mars.\n\nDesigning a landing system for a rover.The exploration challenges they face\nwill be based on carrying out practical ideas to solve these challenges. \nHow do\nwe get the rover to Mars - design and construct your rockets and test \nthem with\ndifferent payloads. Navigation and communication exercises will enable the\npayload to land in the right place.\n\nOn Landing what kinds of aliens will they find? By looking at the \nbiodiversity\nin extreme environments on Earth they can think about and design a possible\nMartian life form - how does this compare to those they found on Earth?\n\nFood is going to be important on a long space flight - what kinds of foods\nwill be important and what will they taste like. How will they preserve \nfood?\n\nThe ARISS contact will give the children a chance to talk to a crew \nmember on\nthe ISS and enhance their space experience.\n\nParticipants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:\n\n1. Do astronauts dream in space?\n\n2. Do you think you dream differently in space?\n\n3. How does the Earth appear when seen from the ISS?\n\n4. Today, one hears each day about the effects of the climatic changes \nand the\n pollution on our Earth? Do you really see the effects of this \npollution\n aboard the ISS?\n\n5. What interest is there to be/ to go to space?\n\n6. Knowing that everything flies on-board the ISS, how do you eat?\n\n7. How fast does the rocket travel in space?\n\n8. How do you prepare for a spacewalk?\n\n9. Could you please describe what impress you most when you look\n\n from the window of the ISS?\n\n10. What is your favorite dish and dessert? Do you miss it in space?\n\n11. Could you see an earthquake, tsunami or a flooding from space? How\n\n would it look like?\n\n12. What colors of the earth can you recognize from space?\n\n13. What are three coolest things you have done in space?\n\n14. Can the International Space Station get lost in space?\n\n15. Because night and daylight are different in space, and because\n\n you are always \"floating\", I was wondering... is it easy to fall \nasleep\n\n in the ISS?\n\n16. Could 3D printers revolutionize space exploration?\n\n17. Although the long training and, I imagine, the long hours\n\n spent in imagining yourself out in space, now that you are there, \ncan you\n\n tell us whether you have been through some feeling or\n\n experience completely unexpected to you?\n\n18. How many times a day do you see the sunset and the sunrise\n\n from ISS?\n\n19. After the great success of Space Oddity, can you give us a song?\n\n20. How are you dealing with not breathing fresh air? Could you train for\n\n this?\n\n\nPLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:\n\n Sign up for the SAREX maillist at\n\n http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex\n\n\n Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the\n\n International Space Station (ARISS).\n\n\n To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status\n\nARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the\nparticipating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, \nJAXA, and\nCSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.\n\nARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of\nAmateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the \nInternational\nSpace Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how \nAmateur\nRadio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science,\ntechnology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is \navailable\non the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio \nAmateurs\nof Canada).\n\n\n(ANS thanks David Jordan, AA4KN for this ARISS update)\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nSatelite Shorts From All Over\n\n\nScouting STEM Space Jamboree August 2-4 Announced\n\nhttp://spacejamboree.com/\n\n(ANS thanks JoAnne Maenpaa, K9JKM for the above update)\n\n\n\nMars Day! 2013 at the National Air and Space Museum\n\n\nMars Day! is an annual National Air and Space Museum event that\ncelebrates the Red Planet with educational and fun family activities.\nVisitors can see a real meteorite that came from Mars, talk to\nscientists active in Mars research and learn about current and future\nmissions.\n\nMars Day! 2013 will take place on Friday, July 26, 2013, from 10 a.m.\nto 3 p.m. at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.\n\nFor more information, visit http://airandspace.si.edu/events/marsday/.\n\nQuestions about this event should be directed to the Visitor Service\nline at 202-633-1000.\n\n[ANS thanks the NASA Education Express for the above information]\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n\n\n\n/EX\n\n\nIn addition to regular membership, AMSAT offers membership in the\nPresident's Club. Members of the President's Club, as sustaining\ndonors to AMSAT Project Funds, will be eligible to receive addi-\ntional benefits. Application forms are available from the AMSAT\nOffice.\n\nPrimary and secondary school students are eligible for membership\nat one-half the standard yearly rate. Post-secondary school students\nenrolled in at least half time status shall be eligible for the stu-\ndent rate for a maximum of 6 post-secondary years in this status.\nContact Martha at the AMSAT Office for additional student membership\ninformation.\n\n73,\nThis week's ANS Editor,\nJoe Spier, K6WAO\nk6wao at amsat dot org\n", "attachments": [] }