An Expedition 19 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Mahopac Public Library, Mahopac, New York on 3 June. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:47 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and ON4ISS in Belgium. The contact should be audible over eastern Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact will be conducted in English.

The Mahopac Public Library has been supporting the community for over 50 years. It currently serves 6 public and 5 private schools in the area. The Putnam Emergency Amateur Radio League will be on hand to help coordinate the contact. Students participating in the contact represent Lakeview Elementary School, Mahopac Middle school and St. John the Evangelist School.

The space shuttle Endeavour rolled from one Florida launch pad to another on Sunday in preparation for a complicated June construction flight to the International Space Station.

NASA parked Endeavour atop the seaside Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral., Fla., at 11:42 a.m. EDT (1542 GMT) after a more than eight-hour trek from its previous perch.

Endeavour is scheduled to blast off on June 13 to deliver a porch-like experiment platform to the space station that will complete the outpost's Japanese Kibo laboratory. Five spacewalks are planned for the marathon 16-day mission to install and outfit the new experiment porch and deliver vital spare parts.

The space station's first six-person crew is adapting to a more crowded habitat than they're used to.

The second half of the team â€" Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne of ESA, and Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk â€" arrived May 29, boosting the population of long-term residents at the International Space Station (ISS) from its usual three to six.

"It's great having everybody here," NASA astronaut Michael Barratt said during an in-space press conference today. Barratt has been serving onboard the orbiting laboratory as a flight engineer for two months already. "It's great having the extra bodies and the extra noise. And for us, it's three new crewmates to share the adventure and share the workload."

Hi All! i want to ask you about teh Frecuency for use the voice repeter in the ISS
i have for worldwide UP 437.800 and Down 145.800. but i have not signal!
Thankyou.
Hector XE2-PHH

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. Miyahara Junior High has Successful ARISS Contact
3. ARRL Article on President's Award Recipient
4. ARRL QST Covers ARISS News
5. Garriott Interviewed at Dayton
6. Astronaut Training Status
7. CQ VHF Article on ARISS

1. Upcoming School Contacts
Mahopac Public Library in Mahopac, New York has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Wednesday, June 3 at 15:47 UTC. This contact will be facilitated by telebridge station ON4ISS in Belgium. This school district public library serves six public and five private schools, with a total of 26,485 served. The library will coordinate this question and answer session with the Putnam Emergency Amateur Radio League.