US businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, will travel to the ISS on September 18 as part of the Russian Soyuz "taxi mission," and hopes to try ham QSOs from space. Ansari had decided originally, not to do ham contacts after realizing her heavy schedule didn't allow her to study for her ham exam. She was scheduled to fly in 2007, but when Daisuke Enomoto was grounded due to medical issues, her ETA was moved up. Ansari was trained on the ISS radios by the Russian ARISS Team quite a few months ago. Now, she has decided to go for a potential QSO with students at George Washington University, her alma mater, on September 22 by taking advantage of a U.S.astronaut as her Control Operator.

As indicated by this article on SAREX ( http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/10day/msg00161.html ) the "materials exposure experiment" also known as PCSAT-2 was removed during the third EVA of STS-115. The last reported signal posted to Findu.com ( http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/pcsat2.cgi?absolute=1 ) was on Sept 14, 2006 at 2010 and 25 seconds UTC. The experiment will be returned to Earth by Atlantis for continued study.

Additional information on PCSAT2 is available at http://eng.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/pcsat2.html

Hi everybody!

We just got our "Go for fligh" status for official ARRIS contact with ISS in March '07. As this is a mayor news for Pazin in Croatia (first contact outside US, EU and few "big guns") we are all very excited. The thing is that we have an Science Fiction & Fiction Festival at that time and we hope that it will be possible for ISS crew to open our event on Friday.
So, i'm interested if anyone has some clue about any events OPENED from space in history!?

greets!
Marko, 9a6ncm