The all-ham crew of the International Space Station will take a brief ride around the space outpost October 10. Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, will shut down vital station systems and undock their Soyuz spacecraft from its port at the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module. "They will then take a 30-minute trip that will relocate the Soyuz to the Earth-facing docking port on the station's Zarya module," NASA said this week. "The maneuver will free Zvezda's docking port for the arrival of a new Russian Progress cargo spacecraft later this month. Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin are still settling in for their six-month stay in space. Reiter has been aboard the ISS since the summer. No Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school contacts are on the schedule until later this month.