An International Space Station's Expedition 12 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Albert the Great School in North Royalton, Ohio, USA, on Wednesday, 11 January 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:11 UTC.

The Brazilian Space Agency is working with astronaut Marcos Pontes to obtain an amateur radio license and callsign for him, so that he may participate in an ARISS contact during his spring 2006 taxi flight. A training session at JSC has also been scheduled to familiarize Pontes with ARISS school operations.

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

On Monday, January 2, students from the STS Escola de Aviacao Civil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil experienced a successful contact with the ISS. Bill McArthur, KC5ACR, answered 17 questions posed to him by seventeen students, as an audience of 60 gathered around the radio. A Rio de Janeiro technical magazine, Antena Eletronica Popular, covered the event. The audio was retransmitted on HF (7080 Mhz) and Echolink. STS is a civil aviation school which offers airplane and helicopter instruction to students, ages 18-25, and gives refresher courses to pilots, ages 25-45.

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

I send few days ago an e-mail to Radio Club Station
of Algeria to listen 145.800 and to tell to 7X ham
to make a contact with ISS to help Bill to achieve is DXCCC.

Can anyone know if Bill contact a 7X station send
me a mail to f0dei@wanadoo.fr

73, Toufik F0DEI

This weekend (Jan 14-15 UTC) Bill McArthur plans to operate on the UHF band exclusively. It is his desire to work all continents on the UHF band from the International Space Station.

Thanks to our fellow member Cor PD0RKC from the Netherlands, Bill was able to work few hours ago a new one: 9W2QC Sion from Malaysia!
Cor warned Sion in realtime about the incoming pass and the result was a beautiful voice QSO.
Congratulations!

NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as the next crew for the International Space Station, designated as Expedition 13.

http://www.amsat.org

I just heard Bill as the ISS came up over the northern horizon. He worked PA0JMV, IZ7EVR, RU6JW and 4L8A in Europe, and then I had a short QSO with him. After me he worked HZ1AM and 7Z1SJ. He seems to be enjoying Ham Radio!
The rig here is a Kenwood TS-790A - 50 W into a vertical collinear antenna.
73, Shlomo, 4X4LF

A naval aviator who helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, a pilot who flew the fourth and final orbital test flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and an Air Force test pilot who was at the controls of the first international Spacelab mission will be inducted next year into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame, the organization responsible for their selection announced on Friday.

http://space.com/news/cs_051230_inductees.html

Quick list of scheduled contacts and events:

STS ESCOLA DE AVIAÇÃO CIVIL, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mon 2006-01-02 15:54
UTC successful (***)
Peterson Elementary, Red Springs, NC, USA Mon 2006-01-09 16:39 UTC
St. Albert the Great School, North Royalton, Ohio, USA Wed 2006-01-11 18:11
UTC
Early 2006-02 Russian EVA with SuitSat deployment

http://www.amsat.org/amsat/archive/sarex/48hour/msg07331.html