Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. Nippon Boy Scouts Experience ARISS Contact
3. ARISS Contact Held During NASM Space Day Event
4. Russian Contacts Successful
5. MAI-75 Experiments Planned
6. Astronaut Training Status
7. ARISS Delegate Talk Includes ARISS
8. ARRL Article on IARU Exhibition

1. Upcoming School Contacts
Komoro Higashi Junior High School in Komoro, Nagano, Japan has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Friday, May 14 at 11:16 UTC. The students have become especially interested in space due to Koichi Wakata, the first long term Japanese astronaut on the ISS. Many children chose to take a space themed course under their general education requirement. As part of their studies, they visited Nobeyama Radio Observatory and worked on radio kits. A JAXA representative visited the school and gave a presentation on space and the ISS. Through these activities, students enhanced their knowledge of space, the ISS and communication using ham radio.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. ARISS Contact Held at IARU Exhibition/European Parliament
3. Astronaut Training Status
4. Soichi Noguchi Contacts Showa Base

1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for Nippon Boy Scout Amateur Radio Club in Mitaka-shi, Japan on Tuesday, May 4 at 15:09 UTC. The Japan Boy Scouts have an amateur radio club, JA1YSS and study amateur radio station operations. The boys look forward to speaking with Soichi Noguchi, a former Boy Scout.

The Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, D.C. has been scheduled for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Space Day, Saturday, May 8 at 17:01 UTC via VK4KHZ in Australia. The Education Division of NASM is recruiting the young people who will participate in the contact. Generally, Boy Scouts and other groups are involved with this activity. The Museum draws approximately 30,000 on this Saturday in May.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. Caldwell-Dyson Speaks with Houston School via ARISS
3. ARISS International Team Meeting Held
4. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for an IARU (International Amateur Radio Union) Region 1 Exhibition in European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, April 27 at 12:53 UTC via telebridge station LU1CGB in Argentina. Students from European School Brussels II have been invited to visit the European Parliament for this special event.

An ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) voice contact is scheduled for Saturday 8th May 2010 at 17:01 UTC (around 3:00am Sunday morning local QLD time) as the ISS passes over Australia.
The scheduled telebridge contact with ISS will be with the Smithsonian Institute, National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, USA. The ARISS ground station will be VK4KHZ located in Glenden Queensland.
Downlink signal will be the usual 145.800FM and should be audible over a large part of the east coast of Australia.
The contact should also be broadcast live on echolink (AMSAT Server).

Dayton Hamvention 2010 will be held at the Hara Arena Complex in Dayton, Ohio on May 14 - 16. The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) and the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) will both man exhibit booths at the event. Gould Smith, WA4SXM, AMSAT Project Manager for ARISSat-1, plans to give a presentation at the AMSAT Forum titled, "Getting ARISSat-1 Ready to Fly." The Dayton Hamvention is an internationally attended amateur radio convention that draws crowds of 25,000 annually. For more information on Dayton Hamvention 2010, go to: http://www.hamvention.org/

http://www.amsat.org/

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contacts
2. ARISS - Poland School Contact Successful
3. Astronaut Training Status

1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for Jessup Elementary School in Houston, Texas on Monday, April 19 at 18:43 UTC. This will be a telebridge connection through ground station WH6PN in Hawaii. The school has integrated the ARISS activity into the school curriculum, specifically focusing on science, math, and language arts instruction across the pre-kindergarten to the fourth grade level.

Belgium school contact with - Timothy Creamer, KC5WKI planned for Tuesday, April 27, 2010

This chance to participate in an ARISS project has been actively embraced by the Science faculty and it is here where the opportunities for curricular integration are gaining momentum. In our 1st Year Secondary (typically aged 11) students study forces, gravity, weight and basic ideas about ‘fields'. In the 2nd Year, studies of the Solar System, and well beyond, link directly to the Shuttle missions and the International Space Station. In Year 7 (the final Baccalaureate year, when most students are aged18) the Physics section on ‘Gravitational Fields' is mainly about the mechanics of planetary and satellite motion. Topics (and questions) are often presented within the context of NASA and ESA missions.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Astronaut Timothy Creamer Speaks with Italian Students via ARISS
3. ISS Ham Debrief Held with Astronaut Jeff Williams
4. ARISSat Presentation to be Given at Dayton Hamvention
5. Four Women in Space Hold Amateur Radio Licenses

1. Upcoming School Contact
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled for Jessup Elementary School in Houston, Texas on Monday, April 19 at 18:43 UTC. This will be a telebridge connection through ground station WH6PN in Hawaii. The school has incorporated the ARISS activity into its curriculum, specifically focusing on science, math, and language arts instruction across the pre-kindergarten to fourth grade levels.

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) International team met for the monthly teleconference on March 16. Two highlights of the meeting include the planned installation of VHF and UHF FM amateur radio equipment and possible digital amateur television from the Columbus module at the International Space Station.

The installation of the Ericsson radio used by ARISS in the Columbus module is scheduled to be done by astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT on the STS-134 shuttle flight planned for late July 2010. ESA hopes to have a special contact to commemorate the first operation of amateur radio in the Columbus Module.

Topics in this report:
1. Upcoming School Contact
2. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi Chats with Texas Students via ARISS Contact
3. HAMEX 2010 ARISS Exhibit

1. Upcoming School Contact
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled with Scuola Primaria De Gasperi in Noicattaro, Bari, Italy on Tuesday, April 6 at 10:47 UTC. This is a public primary school with an enrollment of 700 students, ages 6 - 11. To prepare for the contact, students have studied the principles of radio communications and space missions.

2. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi Chats with Texas Students via ARISS Contact