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Central Park NASA Explorer School
Call International Space Station, Again
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Students from the Central Park NASA Explorer School, along with
three Schenectady elementary schools and a Massachusetts school
spoke with the International Space Station's Expedition 12 crew
on Wednesday, November 23.
The students spoke with Expedition
12 Astronaut William S. McArthur Jr., and Russian Cosmonaut
Valery I. Tokarev during the 20-minute session in the school's
library. They spoke on the telephone to the space
travelers, a transmission that was relayed to the Space Station
via HAM radio operators in Santa Rosa, CA.
This is the second time in less than
a year that Central Park students have reached out to the Space
Station's international crew. In January, a group of
students were connected live with Expedition 10 Astronaut Leroy
Chiao and Cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov for more than 20 minutes
via a NASA satellite video downlink.
On Wednesday, the students linked to
the Space Station through ARISS - Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station - an international outreach
partnership between NASA, the Russian Space Agency, the European
Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency and other that use HAM
radio through the Connecticut-based American Radio Relay League
(ARRL).
FALL 2005
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