An Expedition 19 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at St. Edward School, Ashland, Ohio, USA on 20 April. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 1636 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between NA1SS and N8IHI. The contact should be audible over N. America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

St. Edward School is a Catholic school that was established in 1953 and is located in the college town of Ashland, Ohio. There are 154 students currently enrolled in grades kindergarten through eight. The school welcomes students of all faiths and various backgrounds.

NASA astronaut Gregory C. Johnson, a native of Seattle, will be available for live interviews via satellite from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, April 21. Johnson will make his first trip into space as the pilot of space shuttle Atlantis during STS-125, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Launch is targeted for May 12 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

To schedule interviews, reporters should contact NASA's Johnson Space Center newsroom at 281-483-5111 by noon Monday, April 20.

The 11-day flight will include five spacewalks on consecutive days to make repairs and upgrades to the telescope. Johnson will help guide the spacewalkers from inside the shuttle. Atlantis' astronauts will be the last humans to see the Hubble telescope in person.

Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Endeavour's move from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B on Friday, April 17, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 4.2-mile journey is scheduled to begin at 12:01 a.m. EDT and will take approximately seven hours.

Journalists can participate in a photo opportunity for the shuttle's rollout at 6:30 a.m. and an interview availability with Endeavour Flow Director Dana Hutcherson at 8:30 a.m. Live coverage of the move will be shown on NASA Television beginning at 6:30 a.m. Video highlights will air on the NASA TV Video File.

Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, is a legendary video game programmer/designer and ham radio operator who was the sixth private citizen to fly to the International Space Station (ISS).

Like his father, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, who made history as the first ham to communicate from space with radio amateurs during the STS-9 Space Shuttle mission, Richard was a ham radio pathfinder in his own
right through on-orbit experimentation, implementation of new capabilities, extensive operations using many diverse operations modes, and phenomenal educational outreach initiatives that inspired and transformed the lives of tens of thousands students, worldwide.

i tried to log i heard ISS calling CQ today, but whenever i do nothing shows up on the issfanclub webpage. is it broken? am i doing something wrong? i know i heard that CQ call, and just missed as it was a low pass.

also, repeater mode is good practice for antenna pointing and doppler shift, if they could put it in repeater mode inbetween voice, then the voice contacts would likely be better quality as we have good pracitce.

73,
AF6MQ, CM88dx