Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:25:40 AM CDT

Space shuttle Endeavour completed its final flight by delivering the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station during the STS-134 mission.

"I think we all should be really impressed how big and magnificent that space station is," said STS-134 Mission Specialist Mike Fincke at the crew press conference following landing. Describing their parting view of the space station where he served once as crew and once as commander, he said, "We were impressed; we were excited like five-year olds at a rollercoaster park."

After spending 157 days aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev and Flight Engineers Cady Coleman and Paolo Nespoli landed safely in Kazakhstan Monday, May 23 2011.

Hi all,

Lots of stations this morning (1st June 2011) trying to digipeat through the ISS on 145.825 MHz. Afterwards when I checked the ISS packet messages log, to see who else had got up early, I noticed that one station had connected to the ISS packet BBS for most of the pass.

The BBS was in use in an attempt by that station to leave a message, that I understand the ISS crew do not read?

If that is the case, is there any purpose for having the BBS switched on? As effectively the pass is wasted to all other stations whilst one or more stations are connected to it?

Regards