[ARRL-OK] FW: ARLS011 SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz Mission Anniversary

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

> Subject: ARLS011 SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz Mission Anniversary
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> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:18:42 -0400
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> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS011
> ARLS011 SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz
> Mission Anniversary
> 
> ZCZC AS11  
> QST de W1AW  
> Space Bulletin 011  ARLS011
> From ARRL Headquarters  
> Newington, CT  July 15, 2015
> To all radio amateurs
> 
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS011
> ARLS011 SSTV Images from Space Will Commemorate 40th Apollo-Soyuz
> Mission Anniversary
> 
> To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the
> Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team will
> transmit a series of 12 Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images. The SSTV
> transmissions 145.80 MHz will begin on the morning of Saturday, July
> 18, and continue through Sunday July 19, subject to change.
> Apollo-Soyuz represented the first joint US-USSR mission, and it set
> the stage for later US-Russia collaboration on the space shuttle,
> Mir Space Station, and the International Space Station.
> 
> "The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project would send NASA astronauts Tom
> Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand in an Apollo Command and
> Service Module to meet Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy
> Kubasov in a Soyuz capsule," NASA has recounted. "A jointly
> designed, US-built docking module fulfilled the main technical goal
> of the mission, demonstrating that two dissimilar craft could dock
> in orbit. But the human side of the mission went far beyond that."
> 
> The Soyuz and Apollo vehicles were docked from July 17-19, 1975.
> During that time, the three US astronauts and two USSR cosmonauts
> carried out experiments and other activities. Apollo-Soyuz was the
> final mission of the Apollo program and the last US human
> spaceflight mission prior to the inaugural space shuttle mission in
> 1981.
> 
> Submit received SSTV images to the ARISS SSTV image gallery, which
> will post the best SSTV images received from this event at,
> http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/submit.php .
> 
> The ISS cosmonauts will take time out from the SSTV transmissions on
> July 18 to conduct an ARISS contact (starting at approximately 1655
> UTC) with students attending the Moon Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum
> event in Dallas, Texas. Streaming audio will be available at,
> https://sites.google.com/site/arissaudio/ .
> 
> ARISS International has expressed thanks ARISS-Russia's Sergey
> Samburov, RV3DR, for his leadership on this historic commemoration.
> NNNN
> /EX