Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan has been scheduled for a training session with Kenneth Ransom at JSC on Wednesday, September 13. Topics covered will include school contacts and radio operations.
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The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program now says US businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, who will travel to the International Space Station September 18 as part of the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 "taxi mission," will attempt some Amateur Radio contacts while in space. Earlier indications from Ansari, 39, were that she had decided not to get a license and would not do any ham radio contacts.
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NASA has announced that International Space Station Expedition 6 Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP, will be departing the space agency. Bowersox will leave his position as director of flight crew operations this month. Pending his retirement from the US Navy, where he holds the rank of captain, he'll move into a support position in the office of Johnson Space Center Director Michael Coats. An astronaut since 1987, Bowersox, who will turn 50 in November, moved into NASA management in February 2004 following four shuttle flights and his six-month ISS mission. Astronaut Ellen Ochoa, KB5TZZ -- a veteran of four spaceflights -- will succeed Bowersox as director of flight crew operations, which oversees the Astronaut Office and Aircraft Operations. She's served as deputy director since 2003.