The ISS Progress 38 cargo craft undocked from the aft end of the International Space Station's Zvezda service module Tuesday at 7:22 a.m. EDT. The Expedition 24 crew members had loaded Progress 38 with trash and other discarded items for disposal and burn-up over the Pacific Ocean. The cargo ship will undergo thruster firing tests to gather data for Russian flight controllers before it is deorbited Monday, Sept. 6 to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere.

The unmanned ISS Progress 39 cargo craft will launch Sept. 8 and automatically dock and resupply the station crew Sept. 10.

Topics in this report:
1. Successful Contact with South Hobart Primary School
2. New ARISS-U.S. Delegate
3. ARISS on Facebook
4. Crew Sends Birthday Wishes to ARISS Member
5. Amateur Radio Newsline Covers ARISSat-1

The ISS Progress 38 cargo craft currently docked with the International Space Station will undock from the aft end of the Zvezda service module on Tuesday. Progress 38 will be deorbited and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere on Sept. 6. The Expedition 24 crew members have been loading the Progress 38 with trash and other discarded items for disposal and burn up over the Pacific Ocean. The unmanned Progress 39 cargo craft will automatically dock and resupply the station crew on Sept. 10.

NASA is challenging high school teams to design software to program small satellites aboard the International Space Station. The competition centers on the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES.

SPHERES are bowling ball-sized spherical satellites used to test maneuvers for spacecraft performing autonomous rendezvous and docking. Three of these satellites fly inside the station's cabin. Each is self-contained with power, propulsion, computing and navigation equipment.

Science was the order of the day Tuesday aboard the International Space Station as the Expedition 24 crew catches up on research and experiments put on hold during the weeks recovering from the failure of an ammonia pump module in the complex’s thermal control system on July 31.

Boy and Girl Scouts at Space Jam 4, under the stars in a grass field at the Rantoul IL airport made a direct contact with the ISS via the BSA Crew 272 WB9SA Sat/Comm station Aug. 8th at 4:12 CST. Doug Wheelock talked with the Scouts as the ISS flew overhead. Crew members ran the call and shot video of the contact and the ISS flaring over head.

Videos (part 1 and 2) can be seen at:
http://www.spacejamboree.com/multimedia.php
or on YouTube by searching "crew 272 ISS" as well as past year's ISS contact videos.

Call it "American Idol" in space: NASA has launched a new contest that allows the public to pick – or even create – wake-up songs for astronauts flying on the agency's two final space shuttle missions.

NASA opened its new "Wake-up Song Contest" website Friday to allow the public to choose from a list of 40 previously played songs in the hopes of having it played during the final flight of space shuttle Discovery in November. Voting is going on now here: https://songcontest.nasa.gov/home.aspx

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Da Vinci Science Center Contact was a Success
3. ARRL Article on Boy Scout Jamboree
4. ISS Ham Debrief with JAXA Astronaut
5. ARISS International Team Meeting Held
6. ARISSat-1 Status
7. ARISS News on Amateur Radio Newsline
8. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contact

[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/160328main_iss024e006819.jpg[/img] Image above: Expedition 24 Flight Engineer Shannon Walker is pictured in the orbital module of the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft while docked to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The Expedition 24 crew had another light-duty day Wednesday as the Loop A cooling system reactivation continued aboard the International Space Station. The reactivation followed Monday’s spacewalk, the third in a series of excursions that began Aug. 7 to remove and replace an ammonia coolant pump module that failed July 31.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. QST Covers ARISS
3. ISS Ham Debrief Scheduled

1. Upcoming School Contact