An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with children at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida USA on 17 July. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:27 UTC.
The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible in western portions of the United States. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is located in Orlando, Florida. It is one of the few hospitals in the United States where obstetrics and children's services are combined, increasing the chances for survival of high-risk newborns as well as enhancing the quality of care for mother and child. The children who participate in this contact will be patients at the hospital. It will be an exciting surprise and enriching experience that will make their hospital stay a memorable event.

Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov continued to monitor the upload of new software into the Russian segment computers. Meanwhile Flight Engineer Clay Anderson helped them stow items no longer needed on the station in the ISS Progress 24 cargo craft. The Progress craft is scheduled to undock on Aug. 1.

Kotov and Anderson each completed mandatory computer-based Crew Medical Officer proficiency training. The training session is done once a month.

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg00823.html

The Expedition 15 crew members conducted a mandatory emergency exit drill Tuesday to simulate their response to a rapid depressurization of the station. Russian and U.S. specialists were standing by at both control centers for questions and comments. During the drill, the group proceeded through a series of checkpoints, determining and verifying various settings, measurements and configurations. They stepped through the process of preparing the ISS Progress 24 cargo ship for undocking and moved along the emergency exit path toward the docked Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft.

http://www.amsat.org/ams

Space Shuttle Endeavour is in place at Launch Pad 39A after an overnight journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building. Moving at less than one mile an hour atop the crawler-transporter, the shuttle assembly began the 3.4-mile trip at 8:10 p.m. EDT June 10 and arrived at the pad at 2:30 a.m. July 11. Endeavour was "hard down" -- or secured in place -- on the pad at 3:02 a.m.

During the STS-118 mission, Endeavour will carry into orbit the S5 truss, SPACEHAB module and external stowage platform 3. The payload was delivered July 8 to the launch pad's payload changeout room.

http://www.amsat.or

Well found link to ya page from friend of my mine, which into radio, for myself I'm not really radio guy. Like to say it cool to see that you guys can do this. I would like to try it myself, but I find it easy to do it over data line than radio ahh Well any one know what kind computer they are using up there on ISS. I would think a PC or UNIX base box. Sun/Sgi would be my pick, can't leave home with out.

Fox, of the Furry Fandom ~winks~

On Thursday 12 July 2007 at 16:51 UTC (11:51 USA and Canada Central Time) there will be an ARISS contact between the 2007 "Manitoba Space Adventure Camp" hosted at the Canadian Airforce 17 Wing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is a direct contact with the ham radio ground station VE4SNA located at the "Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Studies" at the base (17 wing). Please join us in listening to this event.

The audio from this event will be fed into the EchoLink *AMSAT* (101 377) and *JK1ZRW* (277 208) servers. We are hoping to also being able to feed the audio from this contact into the IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010. We hope to have good two way audio from this contact.