In May of this year 2012 Russian cosmonauts Gennady padalka, Sergei revin, NASA astrount joseph m acaba will fly to the international space station on the Soyuz tma o3m will launch and dock with the international space station. The crew will be there till September but won’t leave without breaking some records first. Gennady padalka will be the first 3 time commander of the international space station in its history also he will be in the top 5 of longest time in space “days”.

After many months and several dozens of attempts, this finally happen.
Andre Kuipers had some problems to get my call right, but after repetition it got right.
He got delighted to hear the call was from Helsinki " Aaa, oo, how nice to talk to Helsinki, Finland"
Hopefully I get the QSL card of this.

Regards,

: Jari / OH2FQV

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Flabob Airport Students Speak with ISS Astronaut Don Pettit
3. New Proposal Cycle for ARISS-US Contacts
4. ARISS-International Meeting Held
5. AMSAT News Service on ARISS

1. Upcoming School Contact