Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Ashland Contact Successful
3. ARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline
4. Astronaut Training Status
5. CQ Magazine Article on ARISS Contact
6. Marcelino Canino Canino Contact Video
7. Article on Simonyi Contacts

1. Upcoming School Contact
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. on Space Day, May 2 at 15:23 UTC. This will be a telebridge contact via station W6SRJ in California. Students will be pre-recruited, but Space Day participants will also be invited to ask questions. Visitors will participate in hands-on activities, meet astronauts and learn about space from experts and museum displays.

Flight engineers Koichi Wakata and Michael Barratt worked to complete the maintenance of the station's treadmill vibration isolation system Friday. The astronauts spent several days working on the exercise unit to improve its performance after years of on-orbit use.

A second treadmill will be delivered in the summer aboard space shuttle Discovery during the STS-128 mission. The new treadmill, named Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT, was named after comedian Stephen Colbert.

Commander Gennady Padalka and Barratt are checking the Russian Orlan spacesuits in advance of two spacewalks planned for June 5 and June 10. The spacewalkers will relocate docking hardware inside and outside the Pirs docking compartment. This sets the stage for the arrival in November of Russia's new Mini-Research Module-2 (MRM-2). The MRM-2 will provide improved access to the Zvezda service module's zenith docking port for Soyuz and Progress space vehicles.

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The PS8DX Teresina DX Group is on the air this week from Brazil's Canary Island GI97bf on AO-7, FO-29, AO-51, VO-52, SO-50, and ISS (if available).

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NASA will hold news briefings April 23 to update reporters about the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA Television and the agency's Web site will provide live coverage of the briefings from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Shuttle Atlantis' 11-day flight, designated STS-125, is targeted for launch May 12 and will include five spacewalks to refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments. As a result, Hubble's capabilities will be expanded and its operational lifespan extended through at least 2014.