[South Florida DX Association] ARLS003 Three radio amateurs on next ISS crew

[Bill Marx]

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> ARLS003 Three radio amateurs on next ISS crew
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> NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, KE5GTK, and Sunita Williams,
> KD5PLB, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, have been named
> as the 14th crew of the International Space Station. Expedition 14
> is scheduled to begin this fall. Lopez-Alegria will serve as
> Expedition 14 commander and as NASA ISS science officer for the
> six-month mission.
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> Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin--who was on the ISS Expedition 3 crew--are
> now training to launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in
> September. Williams' arrival on the ISS depends on NASA's shuttle
> fleet being back in operation. She's scheduled to travel to the ISS
> via shuttle--her first space flight--and join Expedition 14 in
> progress.
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> If all goes according to current plans, Williams will replace
> European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, DF4TR, whose duty
> tour is scheduled to bridge part of expeditions 13 and 14--the first
> time that's happened in the history of the ISS. Unclear at this
> point is whether Reiter will return on the shuttle or aboard a
> Soyuz, so there could be some additional crew overlap.
> 
> Plans call for Reiter to go into space when the shuttle returns to
> flight this summer, and he'll join Expedition 13's Pavel Vinogradov,
> RV3BS, and Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, whose mission just began.
> 
> Vinogradov and Williams this week began unloading supplies from a
> Progress cargo craft that docked April 26. An older Progress is
> being loaded with trash and readied for undocking in mid-June to
> burn up in the Earth's atmosphere. Williams completed his first
> Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) school
> contact May 1.
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