August 2007 - Sarex (INACTIVE)

ARISS event - One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center, Richmond Hill, New York, Tuesday (Aug 7) 13:25 UTC
by Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] 21 Sep '07

21 Sep '07

An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with children at the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center, Richmond Hill, New York, USA on 07 Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 13:25 UTC. The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and WH6PN. The contact should be audible in Hawaii. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. Richmond Hill Community Center began as a block association 37 years ago. It expanded to become the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center and serves the neighborhood with many programs including children's summer camp, citizenship and English as a Second Language courses, after school tutoring for neighborhood children, Mommy and Me preschool programs, Videoconference and Computer Technology after school and summer program for elementary school children, local civilian patrol and a Community Emergency Response Team program (CERT). The community center also holds meetings regularly to get neighborhood feedback and concerns to solve local area problems. All of these programs are funded and supported by state elected officials (bipartisan) and therefore are offered at no cost to the community. The One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center in NYC (Queens, NYC) is headed by Community Center President Simcha Waisman and Director Joan Bachert. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What was the biggest challenge the crew faced during any of the spacewalks while you were working on the ISS? 2. What is your favorite foods in space and does chocolate taste strange in space? 3. How often are you able to email your family from space? 4. What activity is the most fun as you float around the space station? 5. What is your favorite module of the space station and why? 6. What did you bring with you to remind you of family and home? 7. What are you doing with robots on the space station? We notice it is on your list of activities. 8. It is exciting up there. What do you do if you have trouble going to sleep? 9. Do you ever share meals and what kind of food is your favorite? 10. What do you eat for breakfast -- and can you change your mind about what you want to eat? 11. We know you have private family conference time. How long do you talk to your family and can you see them? 12. What surprises have there been? What did not go as expected? 13. How did you first become interested in space science? 14. Do your children want to travel in space like you and why? 15. Has any of you gotten sick in space and what did you do about it? 16. Do you have Internet on the ISS and what video games are your favorite (if you have any)? 17. How do you get news up in space? Can you watch any of it and does mission control send any news to you? 18. When you return home, what is the first thing you want to do? 19. What food do you miss most up in space? 20. What sports can you play up there in microgravity? 21. Fire safety is important here. What has to be done when you inspect the ISS smoke detectors? 22. How is trash prepared for return to Earth? Is there a compactor? 23. Is the ISS going to become a national laboratory and what kind of experiments will be most important? 24. What fun things will you be leaving behind for the next crew to use? Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact <http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact> . Next planned event(s): TBD ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss <http://www.rac.ca/ariss> (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). Thank you & 73, Kenneth - N5VHO

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Re: [SAREX] ARISS event - Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska USA, Wednesday (Aug 29) 16:03 UTC
by Jim Shorney 05 Sep '07

05 Sep '07

Here's a couple of links for video and pictures: http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=159377&ar… le=2577691 http://www.146760.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188431470/0 73 -Jim

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-08-31 17:30 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-08-31 17:30 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:38 UTC 54 deg Watch for simulcast on IRLP, Echolink and, videostream ( http://www.gailborden.info/webcast/ariss/ ) M.L. King Academy (formerly Alexander Macomb Academy), Mount Clemens, MI, direct via N8LC (***) Tue 2007-09-11 16:06 UTC 82 deg (***) Westbrook Intermediate, Clear Creek, Texas, telebridge via W6SRJ (***) Fri 2007-09-14 18:40 UTC 31 deg (***) Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 313. Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1. QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS ***************************************************************************** The schedule page has been updated as of 2007-08-31 17:30 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-08-29 19:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… tf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf ***************************************************************************** There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. ***************************************************************************** Expedition 15 on orbit: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Dr. Oleg Kotov Clayton Anderson KD5PLA Expedition 15 future: Daniel Tani KD5DXE ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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Without word wrap - Ashland ARISS media coverage
by Jim Shorney 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Sorry gang, I forgot to turn word wrap off and some URLs got broken. Video and text of the Ashland ARISS event. Get 'em while they're there. Let's pepper these guys with hits! http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=159377&ar… http://www.kolnkgin.com/home/headlines/9455971.html http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/30/news/local/doc46d60ab04e86410992… http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10119034 http://www.ketv.com/technology/14006509/detail.html http://www.146760.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188431470/0 73 -Jim -- Ham Radio NU0C TR7/RV7, TR6/RV6, T4XC/R4C, L4B, NCL2000, SB104A, R390A, GT550A/RV550A, HyGain 3750, IBM PS/2 - all vintage, all the time! HyGain 3750 User's Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyGain_3750/

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The (mostly) complete list - Ashland ARISS media coverage
by Jim Shorney 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Video and text of the Ashland ARISS event. Get 'em while they're there. Let's pepper these guys with hits! http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=159377&ar… le=2577691 http://www.kolnkgin.com/home/headlines/9455971.html http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/08/30/news/local/doc46d60ab04e86410992… 0.txt http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10119034 http://www.ketv.com/technology/14006509/detail.html http://www.146760.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1188431470/0 73 -Jim

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Nebraska School Contact
by Morrell King 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

After the school contact thought I heard a w1? station being called on 145.800. Was it a simplex contact or an extension of the telebridge technique or someone on the wrong frequency. Moe WA2KKZ Amsat LM 1731

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Mission STS-118: Investing in Future Exploration
by Arthur Rowe 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 Mission STS-118: Investing in Future Exploration 08.28.07 Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on the STS-118 mission.Every mission that adds to the International Space Station brings the first-of-its-kind orbiting research facility one step closer to completion. But the STS-118 mission went one step further by also reaching out directly from space to the next generation of explorers. The 13-day mission was highlighted by a series of conversations between students on Earth and crew members including teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, as well as installation of the S5 truss and external stowage platform 3. The crew also transferred equipment and supplies to the station on the flight, which was the last for the SPACEHAB module. Space Shuttle Endeavour rose from its oceanside launch pad on time at 6:36 p.m. EDT on Aug. 8, 2007. The liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida marked Endeavour's return to space after spending four-and-a-half years in an extensive overhaul period. The newly improved orbiter performed well during the climb to orbit. Image to right: Space Shuttle Endeavour roars skyward on the STS-118 mission. Image credit: NASA/John Kechele, Scott Haun, Tom Farrar TO VIEW IMAGES GO TO: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/behindscenes/sts118_overview.html The first full day in space focused on inspecting the orbiter's heat-resistant thermal protection system. The crew used the orbiter boom sensor system to methodically sweep over Endeavour's wings, nose cap and orbital maneuvering system in search of possible damage sustained during launch. The day concluded with a review of tools to be used during the upcoming rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station. Flight Day 3 began with Commander Scott Kelly putting Endeavour through the rendezvous pitch maneuver, a slow-motion backflip below the station. This allowed Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and station Flight Engineers Oleg Kotov and Clay Anderson to take video and still images of the orbiter's underbelly. The images taken during the maneuver revealed areas of tile damage, and managers chose to do a focused inspection the next day to get a better look. Endeavour rotates through the rendezvous pitch maneuver.After docking, the shuttle and station crews opened the hatches between them and warmly greeted one another in a welcome ceremony. The day also featured the first activation of the new Station-Shuttle Power Transfer System, which enables the orbiter to draw power from the space station for an extended stay. Image to right: Endeavour rotates through the rendezvous pitch maneuver, allowing the space station crew to photograph the vehicle's thermal protection system. Image credit: NASA Mission Specialists Dave Williams and Rick Mastracchio ventured out of the station's Quest airlock on Flight Day 4 for the first of the mission's four spacewalks. During the six-hour outing, the duo provided assistance as Pilot Charlie Hobaugh used the station's robotic arm to attach the new S5 truss segment on the starboard side of the station's backbone truss structure. Mission Specialist Tracy Caldwell served as the spacewalk coordinator during each of the mission's excursions. A more focused inspection of Endeavour's thermal protection system the following day revealed one particular area of concern: a 3.5-inch-by-2-inch gouge in the tile, apparently a result of foam that broke off the external tank during launch, bounced off one of the tank's struts and impacted the orbiter's underside. NASA's Mission Management Team, which meets daily during space shuttle missions, began several days of analysis on the tile issue to determine the best course of action. The team also announced the mission would be extended from 11 to 14 days due to the perfect operation of the new power transfer system, and added a fourth spacewalk to the itinerary. On Flight Day 6, Williams and Mastracchio participated in the mission's second spacewalk, replacing a failed control moment gyroscope with a new, fully functioning unit. There are four such gyroscopes on the station: two to maintain the outpost's orientation and two backup units. The STS-118 and Expedition 15 crew members gather for a photo.Image to right: The Expedition 15 and STS-118 crews gather in the Destiny laboratory on the International Space Station. ISS crew members on the front row, from left: Flight Engineer Clayton C. Anderson, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov. STS-118 crew members on the middle row, from left: Alvin Drew, Barbara R. Morgan and the Canadian Space Agency's Dave Williams, all mission specialists, and Commander Scott Kelly. STS-118 crewmembers on the back row, from left: Pilot Charlie Hobaugh, along with Mission Specialists Rick Mastracchio and Tracy Caldwell. Image credit: NASA Caldwell celebrated her birthday in space on Flight Day 7. Despite the festive occasion, the day's to-do list was a long one. Using the shuttle's robotic arm, Caldwell and Mission Specialist Morgan carefully removed an external stowage platform from Endeavour's payload bay. With Hobaugh and Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson using the station's arm, the astronauts secured external stowage platform 3 to the station's P3 truss. The day's activities continued with a question-and-answer session from space with students gathered at the Discovery Center of Boise, Idaho. During the event, Williams, Morgan, Anderson and Mission Specialist Alvin Drew answered a wide variety of questions submitted by inquisitive students, such as, "How does being a teacher relate to being an astronaut?" "Astronauts and teachers actually do the same thing," Morgan answered. "We explore, we discover and we share -- and the great thing about being a teacher is we get to do that with kids." Flight Day 8 was highlighted by the mission's third spacewalk, during which Mastracchio and Anderson spent more than five hours preparing the P6 truss and solar arrays for their move to the end of the P5 truss during the upcoming STS-120 mission. Mission Specialist Rick Mastraccio during the third spacewalk.Mission Control ended the spacewalk early after Mastracchio discovered a small hole near the thumb of his left glove. The hole was in the second of five layers and did not cause any leak or danger to him. However, as a precaution, he returned to the Quest airlock while Anderson completed his final task. Image to left: Mission Specialist Rick Mastracchio (shown) and Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson (out of frame) participate in the mission's third spacewalk. Image credit: NASA Morgan and Drew spoke with students at the Challenger Center in Alexandria, Va., on Flight Day 9. June Scobee Rodgers, widow of Challenger Commander Dick Scobee, hosted the educational event in which students again had the chance to speak with the astronauts. Later that day, the Mission Management Team announced its decision not to conduct a spacewalk to repair the tile. Days of testing and analysis on the ground had shown that the gouge was not a danger to the crew or the orbiter, and a spacewalk to repair it would have carried an additional set of risks. Another concern soon appeared as computer models indicated the powerful Hurricane Dean could affect NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, home of Mission Control. Faced with the possibility that Johnson may need to close in the coming days, mission managers ultimately decided Endeavour would undock from the station one day earlier in order to land Aug. 21, one day ahead of schedule. The International Space Station in its new configuration after STS-118.The mission's fourth and final spacewalk highlighted Flight Day 11, as Williams and Anderson spent about five hours working to install an antenna and a stand for the shuttle's robotic arm extension boom, as well as retrieve experiments from the station's exterior for analysis on Earth. Following the final spacewalk, the shuttle and station crews said farewell and the hatch closed. Image to right: Backdropped by a blue Earth, the International Space Station, in its new configuration, moves away from Space Shuttle Endeavour. Image credit: NASA Shortly after Endeavour undocked from the station the next morning, Mastracchio and Caldwell used the orbiter boom sensor system to conduct one final "late inspection" of the shuttle's protective tiles to ensure the thermal protection system was ready to withstand the trials of re-entry. With Hurricane Dean now headed toward Mexico, managers chose not to close Johnson Space Center. Endeavour's landing schedule was not changed. The astronauts spent their final full day in space stowing equipment and supplies and testing the orbiter's steering jets and flight control surfaces in final preparations for landing. The STS-118 mission ended on Aug. 21 as smoothly as it started. After a perfect deorbit burn and a safe journey through Earth's atmosphere, Endeavour touched down on Kennedy Space Center's Runway 15 at 12:32 p.m. EDT, wrapping up a nearly 5.3-million-mile voyage designed to inspire future generations.

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ISS packet still off
by Patrick McGrane 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I tried to digipeat and connect to the ISS tonight on 145.825 simplex using many callsigns and nothing got through or connected. Looking forward to some visual sightings tommorow night or soon, weather permitting. I saw the school contact on cspan tonight. Great to watch the astronauts having fun with the kids. Seems they were using an internet link through nasa to the challenger center near DC. Good night, pat n2oeq

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ARISS event - Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska USA, Wednesday (Aug 29) 16:03 UTC
by Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska USA on 29 Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:03 UTC. The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and K0ASH. The contact should be audible in most of the central United States. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. Ashland-Greenwood Public School has 879 students and is actively engaged in providing a well rounded education. The excitement has grown in the curriculum areas of science and space because Astronaut Clay Anderson is a 1977 graduate of the school. Ashland, Nebraska, population 2,262, is located in southeastern Nebraska between Lincoln, the state capitol, and Omaha. Principal products are agriculture and light manufacturing. Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. What happens if someone becomes very ill during your mission? 2. Did being in space make you nauseous at first? 3. What was your shuttle ride like and how hard was it on your body? 4. What research projects are you working on in space? Which ones will affect the people in Nebraska? 5. Was scuba diving part of your astronaut training? 6. What do you do with your spare time in space? 7. Were you required to learn a foreign language in order to communicate with your crew members? 8. How is physical activity affected while in space? Do you burn more calories? Do you have better stamina? How is your heart rate and blood pressure affected? Would you rather do two a days for football in space rather than on earth? 9. How do you get your exercise? 10. What do you do for entertainment? 11. What is the hardest thing to adjust to being in space? 12. What is your favorite thing to eat in space? 13. I heard many Boy Scouts became astronauts. Were you a boy scout? 14. What exercising do you do in space? What is the importance of exercising often in space? 15. Were you required to learn mechanical skills in order to work on the space station? If so what are some you had to do? 16. How has your goal of going to space, which to some may seem like a lofty and near impossible goal that has become reality, affected how you go about attaining and setting other goals in life? Do you work towards these goals any differently than your dream of being in space? 17. Do you see a sunrise or a sunset everyday and if you do what are the colors that you see when you look out your window? 18. How well do you get along with the people you work with? 19. What is the first thing you want to do when you get back to earth? 20. Is it hard to sleep? 21. Do you get dehydrated in space? 22. If you were working with tools on the space station and lost hold of one, what would happen to it? 23. When you are on Earth and working with NASA is it hard to maintain your personal life? Or is it like the military where you have no personal life? 24. What areas of your high school career helped you achieve your goal of being an astronaut? Now that you are in space and when you come back what will be next in your career? 25. You have been promoted to run the space station for the next year. What would be your three highest priorities for its mission? Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact . Next planned event(s): Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:38 UTC ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). Thank you & 73, Kenneth - N5VHO

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Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-08-29 19:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2007-08-29 19:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska, direct via K0ASH Successful Wed 2007-08-29 16:03 UTC 55 deg (***) Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:38 UTC 54 deg Watch for simulcast on IRLP, Echolink and, videostream Total number of ARISS ISS to earth school contacts is 313. (***) Total number of ARISS supported terrestrial contacts is 1. QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ISS callsigns: DP0ISS, NA1SS, RS0ISS ***************************************************************************** The schedule page has been updated as of 2007-08-29 19:00 UTC. Here you will find a listing of all scheduled school contacts, and questions, other ISS related websites, IRLP and Echolink websites, and instructions for any contact that may be streamed live. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt The successful school list has been updated as of 2007-08-29 19:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf Frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction as of 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… tf Listing of ARISS related magazine articles as of 2006-07-10 03:30 UTC: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf ***************************************************************************** There have been rumors in the past indicating that the ISS was having direct contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF radio equipment on board and available yet. The HF antenna is mounted. Sometimes WA3NAN will retransmit shuttle audio. ***************************************************************************** Expedition 15 on orbit: Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI Dr. Oleg Kotov Clayton Anderson KD5PLA Expedition 15 future: Daniel Tani KD5DXE ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour

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