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An ARISS contact set for February 6 with students at a high school in Germany was postponed, although the contact schedule is expected to resume later this month.

"The German school QSO was postponed because of the Columbia accident.....
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From ARRL Headquarters

Newington, CT February 7, 2003

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ARLS005 ARISS contact delayed

An ARISS contact set for February 6 with students at a high school

in Germany was postponed, although the contact schedule is expected

to resume later this month.

"The German school QSO was postponed because of the Columbia

accident and the re-planning taking place for ISS," said ARISS

International Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, "and because of the crew

unloading a ton of equipment from the (Russian) Progress rocket."

Bauer said he was expecting further clarification from NASA

regarding future ARISS school QSOs.

The all-ham ISS Expedition 6 crew of Commander Ken Bowersox, KD5JBP,

Don Pettit, KD5MDT, and Nikolai Budarin, RV3FB, will have an

extended stay aboard the ISS. Under normal circumstances, a shuttle

mission next month would have brought a fresh crew to the ISS and

returned Bowersox and his crewmates to Earth. With a Russian

Progress 10 cargo rocket delivery February 4, the Expedition 6 team

now has sufficient supplies to sustain the crew until late June or

early July.

In other amateur space news, A. R. "Pop" Kumar, VU2POP, of

AMSAT-India, has announced that a geostationary weather satellite

launched by India last September will be named Kalpana-1 in memory

of Columbia Mission Specialist Kalpana "KC" Chawla, KD5ESI.

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