Archive - Aug 10, 2006
ISS Radio Report
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Greek Space Campers Converse via Ham Radio with German Astronaut
It was a truly international event July 29, when a Greek official and two youngsters attending a European Space Agency (ESA) space camp in Patras, Greece, spoke with German astronaut Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, aboard the International Space Station.
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SHUTTLE, STATION MISSIONS AHEAD
Program managers and the six-member crew of the next space shuttle
Atlantis flight will participate in a series of media briefings
Friday, Aug. 11, at the Johnson Space Center, Houston. With the
remaining shuttle missions, NASA will embark on a series of flights
as difficult as any in history to complete the International Space
Station.
"The flights ahead will be the most complex and challenging we've ever
carried out for construction of the International Space Station in
orbit," said Mike Suffredini, NASA station program manager. "The
station literally becomes a new spacecraft with each assembly