- Sarex (INACTIVE) - mailman.amsat.org

EXP 14 STATUS REPORT #SS06-49
by Arthur Rowe 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 > Nov. 9, 2006 > > Grey Hautaluoma > Headquarters, Washington > 202-358-0668 > > James Hartsfield > Johnson Space Center, Houston > 281-483-5111 > STATUS REPORT: SS06-049 > > INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS06-049 > > The International Space Station crewmembers spent this week getting > ready for an upcoming spacewalk, performing scientific research and > voting in the U.S. elections back on Earth. > > Throughout the week the crew prepared the Pirs docking compartment for > the Nov. 22 spacewalk by Expedition 14 Commander Michael > Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin. The astronauts > gathered tools and equipment they will use on the nearly six-hour > spacewalk. > > Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin next week will prepare the Russian Orlan > spacesuits they will wear for the excursion. During the spacewalk > they will relocate a communications antenna, install new experiment > hardware and photograph a Kurs rendezvous system antenna on the > Progress supply ship that docked last month to the Zvezda module's > aft docking port. Tyurin also will conduct a Russian commercial > demonstration by hitting a golf ball teed up on the exterior of Pirs. > > A top priority for Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter this week was packing > material destined to return to Earth on the Space Shuttle Discovery > in December. Lopez-Alegria completed a routine checkout of the Mobile > Servicing System that moves the station's robotic arm up and down the > truss, in support of that shuttle assembly flight. > > On mission STS-116, targeted to launch Dec. 6/7, the shuttle crew will > deliver another component of the station's girder-like truss > structure and perform spacewalks to rewire the station's electrical > system. The shuttle crew includes astronaut Suni Williams, who will > relieve Reiter on board. Reiter will have spent six months on the > complex. > > Lopez-Alegria, the NASA International Space Station Science Officer > for Expedition 14, collected his third set of blood and urine samples > for the Nutritional Status Assessment experiment. This experiment > measures physiological indicators of the changes in the human body > during spaceflight. > > The samples are stored in the Minus-Eighty Degree Laboratory Freezer > aboard the station. Once returned to Earth the blood and urine > samples will be analyzed to understand a wide variety of bodily > systems, including hormonal changes and how they relate to stress, > bone and muscle metabolism. Scientists will also look at markers to > measure bone metabolism, oxidative damage, and vitamin and mineral > status. > > These findings are expected to give researchers a better understanding > of what happens to crewmembers in space and when it happens. It also > will help to define nutritional requirements and develop food systems > for future missions to the moon and Mars. > > Working hundreds of miles away from home didn't stop Lopez-Alegria > from participating in this week's general election. Texas law permits > residents who happen to be in orbit on Election Day to cast a ballot > from space. This was first done by David Wolf from the Mir space > station in 1997. Lopez-Alegria made his choices on an encrypted > computer ballot that was downlinked to Mission Control and forwarded > to the county clerk's office in Houston for tabulation. > > The next station status report will be issued Nov. 17, or earlier if > events warrant. For more about the crew's activities and station > sighting opportunities: > > http://www.nasa.gov/station > > > -end- > > > > >

1 0

DISCOVERY AT THE LAUNCH PAD
by Arthur Rowe 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

> DISCOVERY AT THE LAUNCH PAD-GO > T0:http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/161883main_dawnroll_lg.jpg > > SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 > > At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Space Shuttle Discovery has > arrived at Launch Pad 39B following an overnight move from the > cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building. Perched atop the mobile launcher > platform and carried by a massive crawler transporter, the shuttle > assembly began the 4.2-mile journey at 12:29 a.m. EST and was > officially in place at the pad at 9:03 a.m. > > Meanwhile, the P5 integrated truss segment and SPACEHAB module are > already inside the environmentally controlled payload changeout room > at the launch pad. The payloads soon will be transferred into the > orbiter's waiting payload bay. > > The STS-116 mission is No. 20 to the International Space Station and > construction flight 12A.1. The launch window opens Dec. 6. > > > > *STS-116 Mission* > + The crew > <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/index.html> > > + The mission > <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts116/mission_ov…> > > + The Integrated Truss Structure > <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/its.html> > > ** >

1 0

Station Crew Preps for Space Shuttle Docking
by Arthur Rowe 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 Station Crew Preps for Space Shuttle Docking ISS014-E-07174 : Thomas Reiter cuts Mikhail Tyurin's hair Image above: Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter cuts Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin's hair in the Zarya module of the International Space Station. Reiter used hair clippers fashioned with a vacuum device to prevent freshly cut hair from being scattered throughout the module. Photo credit: NASA. GO TO:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html The Expedition 14 crew members continue to work this week on scientific experiments, station maintenance and activities related to the anticipated arrival of Space Shuttle Discovery in December. Over the weekend, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria concluded Expedition 14's first week-long session with EarthKAM (Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students) by shutting down, disassembling and stowing the hardware. Nearly 6,600 students from around the globe participated in this most recent session with EarthKAM, a payload which allows students to submit requests and download images from an electronic still camera mounted in a window of the space station. Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin revisited the Elektron oxygen-generating system on Monday to perform routine maintenance. Early last week, Tyurin repaired and re-activated the unit, returning it to service for the first time since mid-September. Also on Monday, Tyurin and Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter practiced photography techniques to be used to capture imagery of Discovery's thermal heat shield during its final approach for docking on the STS-116 mission. Read more about Expedition 14 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition14/index.ht…> + View crew's daily timelines <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/timelines/index.html> NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency have named two astronauts and two cosmonauts to the next International Space Station crew, known as Expedition 15. Astronauts Clayton Anderson and Daniel Tani will travel to the station next year and work as flight engineers. Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Dr. Oleg Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting laboratory. + Read more about Expedition 15 <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition15/index.ht…> + Read the press release <http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/oct/HQ_06337_new_station_crew.html>

1 0

ARISS Event - Rescheduled Flanders Science Festival contact , Fri (Nov 10) at 14:37 UTC
by Ransom, Kenneth G. (JSC-OC)[BAR] 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

An International Space Station Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Henri d'Haese" primary school in Gentbrugge, Belgium who were part of the Flanders Science Festival. The contact was aborted due to delays in the Progress docking and has been reschedule for Friday, 10 Oct 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:37 UTC. The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and W5RRR. The contact should be audible to anyone in southeastern portions of the United States. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options are listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English. IRLP - Connect to the IRLP reflector 9010. You may also connect via the IRLP Discovery website at http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/listen.htm. EchoLink - The audio from this contact will be available on the EchoLink *AMSAT* (node 101 377) and the *JK1ZRW* (node 277 208) conference rooms. Please connect to the *JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server. This will ensure good audio quality for all listeners. _________________________________ AUDIO STREAMING AND AUDIO REPLAY PARTICIPANT INFORMATION: To join the event: URL: https://e-meetings.mci.com CONFERENCE NUMBER: 2403776 PASSCODE: SPACE STATIO To access the Audio Replay of this call, all parties can: 1. Go to the URL listed above. 2. Choose Audio Streaming under Join Events. 3. Enter the conference number and passcode. (Note that if this is a recurring event, multiple dates may be listed.) Replays are available for 30 days after the live event._________________________________ Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: 1. Do you miss your family up there? 2. Is it difficult to walk on an E.V.A? 3. How does it feel like to sleep in space? 4. What is the view outside looking like (dark, shiny)? 5. Can you see the opening in the ozone layer on earth, from there up? 6. What kind of tests or work you have to do? 7. What was the feeling the first time you where in space? 8. What do you miss the most in space? 9. Can you see meteorological events on earth up there? 10. How does your family react when you are so far away? 11. What are you going to miss most when you are back from space? 12. Do you ever feel scared? 13. What was the most beautiful thing you saw in space? 14. Can you use your own senses to feel ? 15. Why did NASA prefer to send people instead of robots? 16. Has this spacetrip made your dream come through? 17. Would you like to live up there for a longer time? 18. Why did the agencies choose this crew for this mission? 19. What do you do in your spare time in space? 20. Are you feeling sick sometimes when you are moving around all the time? Please note, the amateur equipment on the ISS has not been functioning in the automatic modes properly and may be silent more than usual. Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact . Next planned event(s): Landesmuseum fuer Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim Museum), Mannheim, Germany 2006-11-20 14:42 UTC via telebridge WH6PN Centre Hastings Secondary, Madoc, Ontario, Canada, 2006-11-20 16:35 UTC direct via VE3UR 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

1 0

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-09 16:00 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-09 16:00 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: "Henri d'Haese" primary school in Gentbrugge, Belgium (formerly Flanders Science Festival 27-29 October 2006 Ghent, Belgium)via telebridge W5RRR (***) Fri 2006-11-10 14:37 UTC via W5RRR 47 deg Watch for live IRLP, Echolink, and webcast. Landesmuseum fuer Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim Museum), Mannheim, Germany 2006-11-20 14:42 UTC via telebridge WH6PN Thomas Reiter contact Watch for live IRLP, Echolink, and webcast. During Expedition 14, ARISS expects to have one ARISS school contact per month rather than approximately one per week. It is also anticipated that there many not be many general contacts. Total number of ARISS school contacts is 255. 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 ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international partners including Canada, Russia, the European Partners, and Japan) operations team wishes to announce the following very tentative schedule for ARISS school contacts. This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute. Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary. Please check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest announcements. Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***). Also, please check MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions (http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the downlink of 145.80 MHz. The crossband repeater has been active at times. The frequencies are uplink of 437.80 MHz and downlink of 145.80 MHz. For information about educational materials available from ISS partner space Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked Questions page. If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must fill in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not accept a direct request to support an ARISS contact; the application must first be sent to the ARISS region coordinator. You should also note that many schools think that they can request a specific date and time. Once an application has been accepted the ARISS mentors will work with the school to determine a mutually agreeable date. There are several ARISS web sites: English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/ ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/ Your completely filled out application should be returned to the nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application. Here are the email addresses: ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered: ve2ka(a)rac.ca (Daniel Lamoureux VE2KA) ARISS-Europe: jh.hahn(a)gmx.net (J. Hahn, DL3LUM / PA1MUC) ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries: iaru-r3(a)jarl.or.jp (Keigo Komuro JA1KAB) ARISS-Russia: n2ww(a)attbi.com (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ) ARISS-USA: ARISS(a)arrl.org (The American Radio Relay League) ***************************************************************************** QSL information may be found at: http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/arissfaq.html http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm#QSL's ***************************************************************************** Other web sites that may be of interest include: http://www.arrl.org/sarex http://www.arrl.org/ariss http://www.amsat.org http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/educator_guide/ Latest ARISS announcements and news http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Successful school list http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ISS Fan Club website is: http://www.issfanclub.com K1ELA has a website at: http://members.aol.com/k1ela/index.html ON6SAT has a website at: http://on6sat.com/links/ IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca This new site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and Echolink. Friends and family of the Expedition 12 crew have put together a website: http://www.expedition12.com A listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Currently the list includes articles from CQ, CQ VHF, QST, and The AMSAT Journal. Please contact me directly if you have additional suggestions. Expedition 13/14 on orbit: Thomas Reiter DF4TR Expedition 14 on orbit: Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT Expedition 14 future: Sunita Williams, KD5PLB To let you in on how tough it is to schedule contacts, here are some of the constraints the ARISS mentors must work under: Each Increment is 26 weeks in length. For the next increment (14) we may not schedule: 1. Anything the first 3 weeks. 2. During EVA weeks 3. at least 2 weeks prior to the Increment change. 4. no contacts during meal and exercise periods. 5. no contacts during post-sleep and pre sleep (before 08:00 UTC and after 19:30 UTC) 6. contacts on the day of Progress docking or undocking are circumspect. During Expedition 14, ARISS expects to have one ARISS school contact per month rather than approximately one per week. It is also anticipated that there many not be many general contacts. Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT produced a video during their stay on Expedition 9. You can get the QuickTime version (209MB) or the Windows Media version (152MB). These files are huge, so only a broadband connection is recommended. Thanks Mike and Gennady! QuickTime: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9Tour.mov Windows Media: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv A discussion on Doppler correction and the ISS frequencies may be found at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correctio… tf This file was updated 2005-07-29 04:00 UTC ****************************************************************************** * ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUDIO STREAMING THAT IS PROVIDED BY MCI. 1. Go to designated homepage URL. 2. Click on Audioconferencing. 3. Click on Audio Streaming. 4. Click on Join. 5. Enter conference meeting number. 6. Enter passcode (case sensitive) and there are 11 letters max. 7. Enter name. 8. Enter email address. 9. Enter company, use ARISS or AMSAT if you want. 10. Enter title (optional). 11. Agree to agreement policy. 12. Click proceed. 13. Wait for contact to start. If you are there too early, then you will probably hear music. Contact streaming should start approximately 6 minutes before AOS. ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE USE OF IRLP AND ECHOLINK. IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca If using IRLP is more convenient for you than using EchoLink, please connect to the IRLP reflector 9010. The Discovery Reflector also has streaming audio available. Once on the main page, select “audio library” on the left sidebar. The prompt to join the audio stream is posted at the top of this page. More directly, you can go to http://www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls The audio stream will be delayed. Please give the EchoLInk EDU_NET server your preference over the EchoLink AMSAT server for your connection. This will keep the load light on the AMSAT server, assuring us of better audio quality all around. You can connect to the AMSAT Conference Room server at node 101377. Audio is also available at times on the JK1ZRW server at node 277208. Please connect to the *JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server. This will ensure good audio quality for all listeners. For latest information on ISS - school contact audio feeds into EchoLink, please check the AMSAT calendar of events at: http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/fieldops/events.php ****************************************************************************** * "Henri d'Haese" primary school in Gentbrugge, Belgium (formerly Flanders Science Festival 27-29 October 2006 Ghent, Belgium) (***) Contact is a go for: Fri 2006-11-10 14:37 UTC via W5RRR 47 deg Contact will be simulcast on IRLP, Echolink, and the web. Proposed questions for Flanders: 1. Do you miss your family up there? 2. Is it difficult to walk on an E.V.A? 3. How does it feel like to sleep in space? 4. What is the view outside looking like (dark, shiny)? 5. Can you see the opening in the ozone layer on earth, from there up? 6. What kind of tests or work you have to do? 7. What was the feeling the first time you where in space? 8. What do you miss the most in space? 9. Can you see meteorological events on earth up there? 10. How does your family react when you are so far away? 11. What are you going to miss most when you are back from space? 12. Do you ever feel scared? 13. What was the most beautiful thing you saw in space? 14. Can you use your own senses to feel? 15. Why did NASA prefer to send people instead of robots? 16. Has this spacetrip made your dream come through? 17. Would you like to live up there for a longer time? 18. Why did the agencies choose this crew for this mission? 19. What do you do in your spare time in space? 20. Are you feeling sick sometimes when you are moving around all the time? Landesmuseum fuer Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim Museum), Mannheim, Germany Contact is a go for: 2006-11-20 14:42 UTC via telebridge WH6PN Thomas Reiter contact Erweiterte Realschule, Weiskirchen D-66709, Germany, direct via DN1ERW Contact postponed TBD UTC Scheduled to be a Thomas Reiter DF4TR contact using DP0ISS. Proposed questions for Erweiterte Realschule: 1. Welches Fach muss man studiert haben, um Astronaut zu werden? 2. Muss man sehr sportlich sein, um Astronaut zu werden? 3. Wie lange haben Sie sich für den Flug vorbereitet? 4. Wie ist die ISS amateurfunktechnisch ausgestattet? 5. Können die Funkgeräte in Dauerbetrieb bleiben oder würde dann zu viel Energie verbraucht? 6. Kann man aus der ISS mit bloßen Augen auch andere Planeten außer der Erde sehen? 7. Können Sie von der ISS aus Gebäude auf der Erde erkennen? 8. In Kalifornien gibt es häufig Flächenbrände. Konnten Sie welche von der ISS aus sehen? 9. Wie viele Sonnenaufgänge und -untergänge können Sie während einer Umrundung der Erde sehen und wie kontrollieren Sie Ihren persönlichen Tagesrhythmus? 10. Wie gestalten Sie Ihre Freizeit an Bord? 11. Wenn Sie Gitarre spielen, hört sich das in der ISS genauso an wie auf der Erde? 12. Wie sieht Ihr Tagesablauf aus? 13. Wann haben Sie das letzte Mal geduscht? 14. Lassen Sie sich einen Bart wachsen oder können Sie sich im All rasieren? 15. Muss man sich beim Schlafen anschnallen? 16. Schnarcht man in der Schwerelosigkeit, mehr oder weniger als auf der Erde? 17. Wenn jemand von der Crew ernsthaft erkrankt, wie kann ihm geholfen werden? 18. Spürt man einen Rückstoß, wenn man in der Schwerelosigkeit niest? 19. Wie fühlten Sie sich beim Start des Shuttles? 20. Muss man vor der Rückkehr auf die Erde ein besonderes Muskeltraining absolvieren? 21. Was essen Sie an Bord und wie essen Sie? 22. Was erwarten oder wünschen Sie sich von Ihrem weiteren Aufenthalt im All? Samuel-von-Pufendorf Gymnasium, D-09557 Floeha, Germany, direct via DL0GYM Contact postponed TBD UTC Scheduled to be a Thomas Reiter DF4TR contact. Proposed questions for Samuel-von-Pufendorf Gymnasium: 1. Lassen sich von Bord der ISS aus Vulkanausbrüche beobachten? 2. Besteht an Bord der ISS die Möglichkeit, Fernsehprogramme über Satellit zu empfangen? 3. Lassen sich terrestrische Rundfunksender im Weltraum empfangen? 4. Liess sich an Bord die Fussballweltmeisterschaft verfolgen? 5. Wirken sich verstärkte Sonnenaktivitäten auf die Raumstation aus? 6. Sind Polarlichter von Bord der Raumstation aus zu beobachten? 7. Kann man die Blitze eines Gewitters sehen? 8. Sind in dieser Flughöhe noch Einflüsse der Erdatmoshäre spürbar? 9. Hat das Wetter auf der Erde Einfluss auf die Arbeiten an Bord? 10. Sieht man das Abschmelzen von Polkappen und Gletschern? 11. Kann man die Ozonschicht sehen oder messen? 12. Kann man im Internet surfen und E-Mails empfangen oder verschicken? 13. Welche Massnahmen zur Vermeidung von Beschädigungen durch Weltraummüll werden getroffen? 14. Wird die ISS von kosmischen Teilchen getroffen? 15. Kann man andere Satelliten mit blossem Auge sehen? 16. Kann man an Bord der ISS mit dem Lötkolben arbeiten? 17. Müssen die Fenster der Raumstation geputzt werden? 18. Wie wird der Kontakt mit den Familienangehörigen aufrechterhalten? 19. In welcher Sprache unterhaltet ihr euch? 20. Gibt es persönliche Freizeit, z.B. um ein Buch zu lesen? McDonald College, North Strathfield, Australia, via TBD TBD UTC Proposed questions for McDonald College: 1. Are any of your five (5) senses affected in space? If so, how? 2. What are the major biological changes and how do you compensate for the changes to cope with the return to Earth? Also, is there a limit as to how long you can stay in a weightless environment without causing irreversible damage to the body? 3. When the shuttle or rocket takes off, we see the amount of vibration on TV. How do you cope with this when trying to view the instruments and press buttons without losing focus? 4. Psychologically, does being out in the exosphere with all those stars make you feel a certain way (for example, insignificant)? 5. Do water and liquid substances evaporate or dry the same way they do on earth? If not, how is it different? 6. How do you cope with going from a solitude environment in the space station to coming back to Earth, where there are lots of people? 7. Is it weird with it always being dark outside, and do you miss going outside? 8. What would a compass do in space? Would it point in one direction? 9. How did your body react when you went through the atmosphere and reached space? 10. What is the effect of space shrapnel or space junk on the space station, and have you hit any or seen any? 11. Does the space station have any gravity? 12. What is the purpose of your mission? If it was to investigate something, what is it, and what discoveries have you made? 13. Are there any special precautions needed when there is high solar activity or meteor showers? If so, what precautions do you take? Winterthurhalle, Winterthur, Switzerland, via telebridge TBD UTC Northlawn, St. Stephen, St. Anthony, Streator, IL, direct via KB9UPS / W9MKS TBD UTC Sherman Elementary School, Henrietta, New York, direct via W2SKY TBD UTC Centre Hastings Secondary, Madoc, Ontario, Canada, direct via VE3UR TBD UTC Proposed questions for Centre Hastings: (***) 1. With each supply shipment to the ISS sending more water from Earth, we are taking away a precious resource. A colony on the moon would need lots of water which would be obtained from our finite supply on Earth. Will this water be returned or is it lost forever? 2. With business tycoons like Richard Branson looking to expand their companies into the cosmos via commercialized space travel, has it now been decided that space travel is to become a routine commercial practise? 3. The Canadian Space Agency and NASA are have you testing your hand eye co-ordination on the shuttle. Do you play video games on the ISS as well as doing this experiment? 4. Chris Hadfield was calm when he told us about the Russian Progress 23 cargo ship having difficulties docking with the ISS and the ISS losing power. Are all astronauts that calm when under pressure? 5. What is your favourite song to play on the guitar while on the ISS? 6. Mr. Hadfield told us Russian bread has a four year shelf life. Does it taste the same after 4 years of not being eaten? 7. Your mission has 4 EVA'S. Have you ever stood on the end of Canadarm2? 8. Luke Skywalker fought a spherical droid in Star Wars. Are the two SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) on the ISS like pets to you? 9. Can you see heaven from the ISS? 10. If you got appendicitis aboard the ISS what can you do about it? 11. You are doing a study related to immune function and virus activity. Has an astronaut or cosmonaut ever fallen ill while aboard the ISS, and if so what health measures were taken? 12. In your personal opinion do you believe that there is or ever was, life on other planets, such as Mars? 13. On the ISS, are there any communication problems between the crew due to language and cultural differences? 14. When the Progress cargo ship was docking, you had a problem with the antenna. ARISS became your mode of communication to Earth. How did you fix the antenna retraction problem? 15. Mr. Hadfield said he brought a guitar to the ISS. Does it go out of tune more in space than Earth? 16. How do you protect yourself from germs with limited amounts of water on the ISS? On Earth we handwash. 17. SPHERES are like Tamagotchis. Do the red and blue ones shut down when you go to bed? 18. When you look out the window of the ISS do you see the planets and which one is your favourite? 19. You're measuring the exposure of cosmic radiation of your crew. Are you concerned about getting cancer? 20. You are trying to grow lentil seeds in artificial gravity. Have they sprouted? 21. For Mikhail Tyruin. Would a "hole in one" be hitting the (Canadian E21) golf ball into a crater on the moon? Samuel Hearne Secondary School, Inuvik, NT, Canada, telebridge via TBD TBD UTC Escola Camilo Castelo Branco, Portugal 2790-096, Carnaxide, 2004-12-22, direct via CS1RAD TBD UTC Proposed questions for Escola Camilo Castelo Branco: 1. Before leaving for any mission in space, you have many months of preparation. Is the reality very different from the test you go through on Earth? 2. Isn’t it difficult to live in a small closed space during so many time? 3. What kind of food do you eat? 4. Is there any process of recycling water in space? If so, what is it? 5. How do you manage to keep the level of oxygen steady inside the spaceship? 6. How do you get rid of your waste? 7. Do you have any trouble in falling asleep? How do you distinguish if it’s day or night? 8. What’s the official language on the ISS? 9. What do you feel when you see the Earth from the space? What’s the feeling? 10. Isn’t it boring only to see stars, planets and space? 11. What do you miss the most when you are in space? 12. The relationship between you is strictly professional or have you become friends? Have you ever had any arguments? How did you solve them? 13. How can you repair the spaceship if it is somehow damaged? 14. For how long can you stay in space? Which is the maximum length of time? Is there a limit for the number of an astronaut’s voyages to space? 15. When you came back to Earth after a space voyage how do you adapt to gravity? Do you need any external help? What kind of help? 16. What kind of scientific research are you doing now? 17. What’s the importance of space research to scientific knowledge and technical progress? 18. What do you think about other planets colonization? Will it be possible or is it only fiction? Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of 60 schools that we hope will be able to have a contact during 2006. As the schedule becomes more solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an average of one scheduled school contact per week. 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

1 0

ISS COMPUTERS NOT UP TO DATE
by Arthur Rowe 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 November 7, 2006 Glitch may force NASA to launch shuttle early Dec. 6 slotted for Discovery BY TODD HALVORSON FLORIDA TODAY HOUSTON - NASA faces a Dec. 17 deadline to launch Discovery and avoid computer failures that could appear if the shuttle and its astronauts are flying during the year-end computer clock rollover from 2006 to 2007, officials said Monday. The next chance to launch would be Jan. 14. Here's the situation: FOR THE REST OF THE STORY GO TO: http://www.flatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061107/NEWS02/61107034…

10 9

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-08 21:45 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-08 21:45 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Flanders Science Festival, Ghent, Belgium, via telebridge W5RRR (***) Fri 2006-11-10 14:37 UTC via W5RRR 47 deg (***) Watch for live IRLP, Echolink, and webcast. (***) Landesmuseum fuer Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim Museum), Mannheim, Germany 2006-11-20 14:42 UTC via telebridge WH6PN Thomas Reiter contact Watch for live IRLP, Echolink, and webcast. (***) During Expedition 14, ARISS expects to have one ARISS school contact per month rather than approximately one per week. It is also anticipated that there many not be many general contacts. Total number of ARISS school contacts is 255. 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 2006-11-08 21:45 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 2006-09-27 02:00 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 has been a rumor 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 13/14 on orbit: Thomas Reiter DF4TR Expedition 14 on orbit: Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT Expedition 14 future: Sunita Williams, KD5PLB ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

1 0

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-08 15:45 UTC
by AJ9N＠aol.com 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2006-11-08 15:45 UTC Quick list of scheduled contacts and events: Landesmuseum fuer Technik und Arbeit (Mannheim Museum), Mannheim, Germany 2006-11-20 14:42 UTC via telebridge WH6PN (***) Thomas Reiter contact (***) During Expedition 14, ARISS expects to have one ARISS school contact per month rather than approximately one per week. It is also anticipated that there many not be many general contacts. Total number of ARISS school contacts is 255. 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 2006-11-08 15:45 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 2006-09-27 02:00 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 has been a rumor 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 13/14 on orbit: Thomas Reiter DF4TR Expedition 14 on orbit: Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT Expedition 14 future: Sunita Williams, KD5PLB ***************************************************************************** 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors

1 0

Prime time UK coverage of ISS contact
by Howard Long 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Folks, Here is 4 1/2 minutes of footage of a networked UK show called "Pride of Britain" that went out last night during primetime. Amoung the many celebrities at the event were none other than Prince Charles and Tony Blair. http:/www.g6lvb.com/Neston/NestonPOB.mpg (41Mb) http:/www.g6lvb.com/Neston/NestonPOBLo.mpg (12Mb) 73, Howard G6LVB

1 0

EXP 14 REPORT #SS06-48
by Arthur Rowe 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468 International Space Station Status Report: SS06-048 Repair of an oxygen generator, robotic arm operations and cargo unpacking were the top priorities aboard the International Space Station this week. On Monday, Expedition 14 Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin installed new valves and cables to repair the Elektron oxygen-generation unit which shut down in mid-September. Tyurin re-activated it after installing the new parts, and the Elektron is supplying oxygen for the cabin atmosphere. The crew unpacked most of the items from the recently arrived Russian Progress cargo ship including the Elektron parts, fresh food and other systems hardware. The rest will be unpacked as needed and as time permits. Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria worked on robotics proficiency tasks throughout the week. At the start of the week, ground controllers relocated the Mobile Transporter to a different worksite on the station's truss. On Wednesday, Lopez-Alegria maneuvered the Canadarm2 robotic arm over to the transporter and its operating base from the arm's normal home base on the Destiny Lab. The free end of the arm was photographed to help robotics specialists as they evaluate an issue that can cause snares to misalign inside the arm's end effector. On Thursday, Lopez-Alegria connected the free end of the arm to another grapple fixture on the Mobile Base System and released the opposite end. Friday, the Mobile Transporter was moved by ground controllers to the outermost worksite on the port truss. It will provide support there for the Canadarm2 operations during the next shuttle assembly mission, STS-116. Next week Lopez-Alegria will check out the robotic system for the shuttle flight, which will bring and install a new truss spacer segment to the station. Lopez-Alegria set up and activated cameras for a session of the Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students, or EarthKAM experiment. The middle school students study the Earth, then control a special digital camera mounted on the space station to photograph coastlines, mountain ranges and other geographic items from the unique vantage point of space. At the University of California at San Diego, an undergraduate student team manages the image requests and posts the photographs on the Internet for the public and participating classrooms around the world to view. More than 107 schools from 10 countries participated in this session. The second sample of seeds for the Analysis of a Novel Sensory Mechanism in Root Phototropism was harvested and frozen in the Minus-Eighty Laboratory Freezer, a cold storage unit that maintains experiment samples at temperatures of -80 C, -26 C, or 4 C throughout a mission. Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter worked with the experiment, which will increase the understanding of the different systems plants use to determine the direction their roots and shoots should grow and which genes are responsible for successful plant growth. Reiter also continued work on a suite of European Space Agency science experiments. One such experiment, called CARD, is helping scientists examine the relationship between salt intake and the cardiovascular system when exposed to the microgravity environment. Crewmembers typically experience reduced blood pressure in microgravity. To help them readjust to gravity on Earth, they take salt tablets just before returning, which temporarily increases the blood volume. CARD is looking at the effects of ingesting occasional salt supplements throughout the long duration mission. This experiment's results could also help improve treatment of patients on Earth with heart failure. The crew began gathering tools for a Nov. 22 spacewalk by Tyurin and Lopez-Alegria in Russian Orlan suits from the Pirs Docking Compartment. They will replace and retrieve several science experiments from the hull of the Zvezda Service Module. Tyurin also plans to hit a golf ball from a bracket on Pirs as part of a Russian commercial activity. The next station status report will be issued Nov. 9. For more information about the crew's activities and station sighting opportunities, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/station <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html>

1 0