Space WeeklySpace Weekly .comHAM RADIO FROM SPACE- April 18, 2007 After less than a day in space, civilian space traveler Charles Simonyi, KE7KDPHA5SIK, was already making contacts with the earthbound ham radio community from NA1SS. The billionaire software pioneer and aviator arrived April 10 at the International Space Station with the Expedition 15 crew of Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and Dr Oleg Kotov. The trio launched two days earlier in a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Ron Hashiro, AH6RH, in Honolulu was among...http://www.spaceweekly.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2156 ERAU Students Set Record With Rocket Launch- April 2, 2007 A team of Aerospace Engineering students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University made history on March 22 when they successfully launched their two-stage Icarus rocket from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. With 3,500 pounds of thrust in the first stage and 900 pounds in the second stage, the rocket set an altitude record for a student-built vehicle -- 37.8 miles -- and became the first two-stage student sounding rocket to launch from a NASA facility. The Embry-Riddle...http://www.spaceweekly.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2155 |