Friday, June 03, 2005

Russians to chuck spacesuit out of ISS

I have a couple of friends that that are HAMS and I want to ask them and any of my readers of this Blog to email me if you guys capture any pictures from the space suit camera. This will be interesting to discuss in my science classes.
In the fall of this year, the Russian team is going to be deploying a space suit that they do not need anymore ... we have gotten permission this past week from NASA - to put some Amateur Radio equipment onto it. So there will be some Amateur Radio downlink capability and slow scan pictures will be downlinked.

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