Scott H. Lindsey-Stevens, N3ASA says:
Please note that prior to the Saint-Mard, France school contact the packet station will be switched off to avoid any possible interference to the QSO. The astronauts should switch the packet station back on after the contact. However, the switch over will most likely not be immediate.
So please be patient if packet service does not immediately resume.

Thank you & 73,
Scott H. Lindsey-Stevens / N3ASA
ARISS-US Public Relations Representative

Copied this info from the SAREX bulletin board.

The ARISS team is pleased to announce that the next school contact with the International Space Station astronauts will take place Thursday, 1 April between the ISS crew and students at the “College Georges Brassens of Saint Mard" and the “Jacques Prevert" school. The contact
is scheduled to bring about 1827 UTC or 2027 local daylight time.

Gegory Olsen, president of Sensor Unliminted inc might become the third lucky space tourist.
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Valentin has posted new information on the ET Shadow experiment. See www.tsniimash.ru and follow the links to "Ground Air"

Unfortunately, not very many Amateurs have signed up so far but maybe this new activity will attract participants.

Bob Bruninga sent this post on the Amsat-BB reflector:
...PCSAT2 this weekend passed final Outgassing Tests for Space Station and Space Shuttle and is ready for launch on the first shuttle return to flight (next year).

Hello All...

NASA TV can be viewed with the FREE Windows Media Player. Media Player is already installed on Windows based systems. To watch LIVE streaming NASA TV, with Real Player or Media Player, you can go to http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/

73, Scott WA6LIE

Hello All,

It is possible to watch space projects on NASA TV.
I have seen several time's the ISS inside!
Often there are intresting news about MARS!
Here is the link for NASA TV:
http://www.nasa.gov/ram/35037main_portal.ram

NASA has (somethimes) 4 TV channels wich you can select, but most of all only channel 1 is active!
I use the REAL-PLAYER to watch, renember
the real player is not free-ware.

73's Cor PD0RKC

Got to watch ISS go across the southeastern sky this evening. Had been about 6 weeks since the last sighting and always a thrill. Next sighting will be tomorow night with elevation pass. Almost over head---sure to be a fantastic pass.

A school in the Outer Hebrides is understood to have become the first in Scotland to talk directly with the International Space Station (ISS).

All,

To save postage costs, the process that we are using for the special event certificates is that the various regions (Europe, Canada, USA, Russia and Japan) are collecting the QSLs and generating a compiled list of names and callsigns. These lists are then used to print the certificates and return the certificates to the regions by bulk mail. They will then distribute them to all of you.

Believe it or not, some QSLs are still coming in! We have the compiled lists and the lists are being used to print the certificates. As more information becomes available on this, we will post the status. It shouldn't be too long now. Thanks for your patience.

73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chairman
AMSAT-NA VP for Human Spaceflight Programs