Hello all,
I'll be doing a telebridge link-up between the ISS and the Iroquois Middle School in New York, USA this Monday 16th May at 17:50 UTC (Tuesday morning at 3:20 am Sth. Aust. time).
The downlink is on 145.800 Mhz. and should be readable over most of Australia. You are invited to listen in. (don't forget to set the alarm !!)

Best regards,
Tony.

J.A.Hutchison. VK5ZAI
P.O Box 470
KINGSTON SE. 5275
South Australia

Australian ARISS Co-ordinator
web site :- http://www.electric-web.org

The Station's orbit was raised Wednesday after a docked Progress spacecraft fired its engines at 10:27 a.m. EDT. To prepare for the reboost, Flight Engineer and NASA ISS Science Officer John Phillips reconfigured some video cameras Tuesday. Russian flight controllers commanded the docked Progress 17 spacecraft to fire its engines raising the Station's orbit by 1.5 miles to an altitude of 226 miles by 214 miles. The cameras captured video of external Station elements that might flex or bend during the maneuver.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Photos of Astronaut John Phillips on the ISS speaking with students of the Albany Hills School in Brisbane are on the NASA web site at :
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-11/ndxpage15.html

The story and photos of the students is on the ARRL web site at :
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/05/05/2/?nc=1

12 students of Hosokawa junior high school prepared 24 questions for ISS astronaut John Phillips. They asked him 22 of those questions, which he answered before the Space Station dropped below the horizon.

Audience:
Students: 300
Others (including parents) : 100
TV Station: 1 (Local cable TV)
Newspapers: 2

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm

ARISS delegate Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, spoke with Roberto Vittori about his time on the ISS during the ENEIDE Mission. Vittori was pleased with his experience using the ISS Ham radio system in the service module and with his school contacts. Sergey also had a crew debrief with the Expedition 10 crew on Wednesday, May 4. The U.S. team is planning for its crew debrief with Leroy Chiao, tentatively scheduled for the last week of June.

http://www.rac.ca/ariss/oindex.htm

As part of an educational outreach program, students at the United States Naval Academy, in collaboration with the DOD and ARISS, and under the direction of Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, designed and developed PCSAT2. This payload will be carried on a Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE5) on a Passive Experiment Container (PEC).

International Space Station Expedition 11's next ARISS school contact will be with students at Hosokawa Junior High School, Ikeda, Osaka, Japan on Monday, 9 May 2005.
The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:00 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and 8N3H in Osaka, Japan, so it should be audible to anyone in the area to people listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants will conduct the conversation in English.

The International Space Station Expedition 11 crew's first ARISS school contact will be with students at Albany Hills State School, Brisbane, Australia on Wednesday, 4 May 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:49 UTC.

Hello All,

I have downloaded a nice ISS video wich was
made by ISS crew Mike Fincke and Gennady Padalka.
They show you the lauch, a view in several ISS modules, how they eat, sleep, and going to the
toilet (hi).

ISS NASA VIDEO (152mb!!!).
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/Video/Expedition9tourwmv.wmv

ISS images pictures (NASA website!).
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/station/crew-9/inflight/ndxpa...

Tnx to Kenneth N5VHO for the links!!!!!

73's Cor PD0RKC
http://pd0rkc.mine.nu