An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON Canada on 30 July. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:03 UTC.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and ON4ISS. The contact should be audible over parts of eastern Europe. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

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Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. De Winne has ARISS Contact with Portuguese Students
3. De Winne Participates in ARISS Contact with Ugo Guidi
4. ARISS Member Comments on Lunar Landing in EE Times
5. ARRL Article on STS-127 Crew
6. Demonstration of SuitSat-2 Prototype
7. QST Covers Garriotts at Dayton Hamvention

1. Upcoming School Contacts
Borough of New Providence, NJ, Summer Playground Camp in New Providence, New Jersey has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Thursday, July 30 at 17:24 UTC. This is a town sponsored summer camp activity, primarily for elementary school children (K - 6). The New Providence Amateur Radio Club (NPARC) has been involved with this type of camp for the last five years. It regularly provides an introduction to amateur radio on the air by setting up HF and VHF stations and has the campers communicate with hams around the world. The ARISS contact is an obvious extension of this activity.

Greetings All,

Nice to read the reports being posted on the forum regarding the third space craft.
I've been checking the posted mission time-line that states that STS-127 is due to undock from the ISS Tuesday at 1:21EDT. The Soyuz-Progress 32P will dock with ISS on Wednesday at 7:11EDT.

This will be a great sight to see in the night sky on Tuesday night! (3 objects)
Hope to read follow-up sighting reports of from anywhere.

Good-Luck! de VE1WRG-Derek
ve1wrg@amsat.org

[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/368958main_s127e008608.jpg[/img] Image above: A record 13 astronauts and cosmonauts assemble for a shuttle-station group photo on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA Sunday morning, the space shuttle robotic arm grabbed the Japanese Exposed Section cargo carrier from the International Space Station's robotic arm and carefully placed the cargo carrier back into Endeavour's payload bay bringing to close this mission's robotics work on the space station's new porch. The 13 crew members aboard the space station and space shuttle transitioned back to work by tucking the Exposed Section away, hosting a joint crew news conference and studying the new procedures for Monday's fifth and final spacewalk.