Soyuz TMA-7 Even though they'll be traveling at five miles a second and flying independently for about 40 minutes, they won't be going very far.

Space station Commander Bill McArthur and Cosmonaut Valery Tokarev will move their Soyuz TMA spacecraft from the station's Pirs docking compartment to the Earth-facing port of the Zarya module on Friday.

http://www.amsat.org

The next International Space Station's Expedition 12 ARISS school contact will be with students at Takatsuki Education Center, Japan on Thursday, 17 November 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:34 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and 8N3A, so it should be audible to anyone in Japan and surrounding areas listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink.
The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Now all media coverage about the November 9 ARISS contact between NA1SS and Istituto Comprensivo Negri is online.
Images, audio and video are here:

scuola.spaceonline.tv

73's Claudio IK1SLD

Received from Kenneth, N5VHO:

The next International Space Station's Expedition 12 ARISS school contact will be with students at Hermann Middle School in Hermann, Missouri on Wednesday, 16 November 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:59 UTC.
This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and KC0JYV, so it should be audible to anyone in central parts of the United States listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

ARISS-Europe member Howard Long reports that an ISS documentary has been produced by the Discovery Channel which will include footage taken during the August 6, 2003 ARISS- Neston Primary School contact (Corsham,Wiltshire,U.K.) with astronaut Ed Lu. The program may run as early as December 28 in the U.K. and will likely be shown in the U.S. and Canada in January, 2006.

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

Astronaut Mike Lopez-Alegria is tentatively scheduled for amateur radio license training classes on November 16 and 17.

The last 6 unlicensed astronaut candidates (Randy Bresnick, Chris Cassidy, James Dutton, Shane Kimbrough, Tom Marshburn, and Bobby Satcher) from the class of 2004 attended their first amateur radio license training session on November 10.

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

SuitSat, a Russian spacesuit containing ham radio equipment and a CD of student artwork, is scheduled to be deployed during a Russian EVA on December 8. It has been receiving an increasing amount of media attention, and has been mentioned on NASA TV. Go to:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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

On Wednesday, November 9, Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, participated in a second successful ARISS contact with the students at Furtherwick Park School in Canvey Island, Essex, U.K. Sixteen students asked one question each of the astronaut. Students, teachers, and others gathered in the school hall, as the local media, including the BBC Essex Radio, covered the event.

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

On Wednesday, November 9, the students at Istituto Comprensivo F. Negri in Casale Monferrato, Italy, experienced a successful contact with the ISS via the telebridge station WH6PN in Hawaii.
Twenty students were able to ask a total of twenty questions of Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, before losing contact with the ISS.
Approximately 1000 students, teachers, parents, representatives of the Board of Directors of the national amateur radio associations, representatives of the Ministry of Education, and other dignitaries attended the event.
The contact audio was webcast, and was fed to the Echolink AMSAT and EDU_NET conference room servers. Twenty-nine connections were made from Thailand, the U.K., U.S.A., Spain, Russia, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, India, and Australia.

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

Hello All,

Wednesday was the ISS UK school contact.
I was outside with my handheld and I could see the ISS in the sky like a fast flying bright star and hear astronaut Bill Mc Athur answering questions to a school in UK.
I also have anounced the visible pass here to amateurs in Holland (via news groups).
So many amateurs also have observed the ISS outside with their handhelds and even a amateur was in his car (with transceiver) and he also could hear (and see) the Space Station!
Bill did not answered all questions cause he took much time for some questions.
But nevermind cause these where very intresting answers (the event was successful!).
Inside my house I was recording the conversation via my satellite ham equipment.
You can download a recording from my website.
http://pd0rkc.ontwikkel.nl
My website is on a new server (it's under construction!).

73's Cor PD0RKC