[HCARC] Fw: ARLS004 Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend

[Bill Tynan]

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Subject: ARLS004 Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend


> SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS004
> ARLS004 Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend
>
> ZCZC AS04
> QST de W1AW
> Space Bulletin 004  ARLS004
> From ARRL Headquarters
> Newington, CT  July 12, 2012
> To all radio amateurs
>
> SB SPACE ARL ARLS004
> ARLS004 Three Hams Scheduled to Head to ISS This Weekend
>
> NASA will televise the launch and docking of the next mission to the
> International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for 8:40 PM (CDT)
> Saturday, July 14 (0140 UTC, Sunday, July 15). NASA Flight Engineer
> Sunita Williams, KD5PLB, along with Russian cosmonaut Yuri
> Malenchenko, RK3DUP, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
> astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI, are completing preparations as
> they undergo their final Soyuz spacecraft fit. Live NASA TV coverage
> of the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
> in Kazakhstan begins at 8:30 PM CDT on Saturday, July 14 (0130 UTC
> July 15).
>
> The trio will arrive at the station on July 16, joining NASA Flight
> Engineer Joe Acaba, KE5DAR, and two Russian cosmonauts: Expedition
> 32 Commander Gennady Padalka, RN3DT, and Flight Engineer Sergei
> Revin, RN3BS. Acaba, Padalka and Revin have been aboard the ISS
> since mid-May. Williams, Malenchenko and Hoshide -- who also will be
> part of the Expedition 33 crew starting in September -- will return
> to Earth in mid-November.
>
> A link with NASA TV's scheduled coverage is available at,
> http://www.arrl.org/news/three-hams-scheduled-to-head-to-iss-this-weekend.
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