Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The mission, designated STS-129, included three spacewalks and the installation of two platforms to the International Space Station's truss, or backbone. The platforms hold large spare parts to sustain station operations after the shuttles are retired. The shuttle crew delivered about 30,000 pounds of replacement parts for systems that provide power to the station, keep it from overheating, and maintain a proper orientation in space.

I realize it's not ham specific, but if you want to hear the archived ISS / Mission Control audio, it's being archived at http://issaudio.project10.net

Files are recorded using VOX, and are timestamped in Eastern Time (ET).

Never look at the newest file, that's just a placeholder for the current hour. Live audio is still available at NASA, but if you miss something or want to go back and look for specific events, use the NASA timelines and convert to ET (-5 right now) and you can pull it up!

- Rob - N8GSK

PS During shuttle missions, the feed switches over to NASA TV audio so you'l

Hi!
are many years that I'm not in radio, and I have started my space activity with I.S.S. from few weeks.
I have a question; Is usual in packet mode contact another amateur radio pms via RS0ISS-3 digipeater? I remember that this was possible with the MIR, but now i think is different, I see the port 3 used by APRS.
This my question is just to know the rules on the use of PMS.

Tnx and 73s de Enzo IW0FKO