Orbital jet lag aside, space seems to agree with U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen, who ended his fourth day aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday with a video broadcast to Earth.

Olsen spoke to listeners at his alma mater - Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey - from the space station's U.S.-built Destiny laboratory, though was unable to take questions from the ground as he'd originally hoped.

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There are currently two projects on board the
International Space Station that will support Slow
Scan TV (SSTV). These project are called SuitSat and SpaceCam. The SuitSat project may be activated in December 2005 and SpaceCam in 2006 (all dates are subject to change without notice). The goal of this series of memos is to get the world ready to start decoding SSTV images from Space.

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Students at Tregaron Secondary School in Tregaron, Wales, questioned Expedition 11 ISS NASA Science Officer John Phillips, KE5DRY, on September 29 about life aboard the International Space Station. Serving as the Earth station for the event was the Radio Society of Great Britain's (RSGB) mobile ham station GB4FUN, controlled by Carlos Eavis, G0AKI, and operated by AMSAT UK's Howard Long, G6LVB. The contact between GB4FUN and NA1SS was arranged by the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. One student asked Phillips what happens to tears if you cry in space.

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Mission Specialist Bob Behnken completed two sessions of amateur radio training at JSC. He is currently preparing to take his technician's exam.

[ANS Thanks Carol, KB3LKI, for this information]

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Nothing heard on 145.800 on Oct 8, 2005 16:40 utc.

I am located in Northeastern Connecticut, USA, grid squard fn41br

Dean, N1SXL

A telebridge linkup over Australia between Ft. Hamilton High School in Brooklyn NY, and the ISS
will be done through VK5ZAI in Kingston SE, Sth. Aust. this Friday Morning at 00:37 am Central Aust Time ( Thurs 6th Oct @ 15:07 UTC)
The downlink will be on 145.800 MHz and should be readable over most of Aust.Ft. Hamilton High School is a large school with 5,000 students and some of these will be asking Greg Olsen questions about his flight on the ISS.

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As reported by space.com, the Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft carrying the Expedition 12 crew and one space tourist has successfully docked today at the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:27 a.m. EDT (0527 GMT)
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The International Space Station's Expedition 11 may be winding down. However, their ARISS school contacts will be very active this week with 3 scheduled sessions. Each session will be a telebridge conducted in English.
Sessions will be held on:

5 October 16:59 UTC -- Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey
6 October 15:07 UTC -- Ft Hamilton High School, Brooklyn, NY
7 October 13:33 UTC -- Ridgefield Park High School, Ridgefield Park, NJ

Preparations for arrival of the next crew of the space station,
scientific activities and maintenance highlighted this week's activities
aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Science Officer John
Phillips also spent some time packing up for their own return home,
readying their launch and entry suits. They checked out the Soyuz
spacecraft that brought them to the station April 16 to make sure it is
ready to take them back to Earth.

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Commander William McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev, the 12th international space station crew, launched aboard their Soyuz TMA
spacecraft at 11:55 p.m. EDT Friday to begin a 182-day stay in space.

Their Soyuz TMA capsule reached orbit a little less than nine minutes after liftoff. Russian flight controllers reported the spacecraft's
solar arrays had deployed as scheduled, and that all appeared normal.The Soyuz TMA is scheduled to dock with the station at 1:32 a.m. EDT on
Oct. 3.

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