Phillips and Krikalev are the eleventh crew for the orbiting research complex. Krikalev will serve as Station Commander, and Phillips is Flight Engineer and NASA International Space Station Science Officer. Designated Expedition 11, they will be on board the Station when the Space Shuttle makes its first Return.....

Press release by Peter Kofler, IN3GHZ, ARISS mentor:
Friday 19 November 2004 at 14:34 UTC, i.e. 15:34 local time, the school center "Direzione Didattica Statale 1° Circolo� in Polignano a Mare near the city of Bari in south-east Italy performed a radio contact with US astronaut Leroy Chiao, KE5BRW, on board the International Space Station.

i found this doc earlier so they have bewem doing vioce contacts with schools not just packet LOL

Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf

Hello all,

Kenneth N5VHO is investigating on the occasional delays that afflict the packet radio operations with ISS.
Please read this

During latest Europe pass the ISS packet radio system was silent for at least 6 minutes.
After that a very long burst of data followed.
It looks like there are still problems on the ISS packer radio receiver when over Europe.

Has anybody experienced DX on the ISS? I noticed this first a couple years ago when a couple of times we contacted the digipeater when it was below the horizon, according to Instant Tracker. This morning I hit it again at 1230Z when it was 3100kms SW of our QTH and -7° below the horizon. That's amazing! On a student-built single-element quad-loop antenna!

DE VYØDU ...Orin

Each crew aboard the International Space Station discovers more and more about what it takes to live and work in space for long periods of time. This year, the fourth for humans continuously staffing the Station since the arrival of Expedition 1 on November 2, 2000, has proven to be an exceptional example.
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