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03.05.2012
Zhitomir Space Museum planned contact
We have received confirmation today for the next ARISS contact with International Space Station. Event is prepared and hosted by Zhitomir Space Museum http://cosmosmuseum.info/
City of Zhitomir is the place where famous father of Soviet space program -  constructor Sergey Korolev was born in 1907.
Radio contact scheduled for May 18, Friday. Specific time will be available after upcoming ISS orbit correction. Gennady Padalka (RN3DT)and Servey Revin (RN3BS) will be talking to children from Zhitomir region, list of qestions prepeared by children has more than 20 topics about various aspects of life in space and space exploration.



28.04.2012
 Balaklava sucesfull contact
We are pleased to announce very successful contact of Balaklava school (Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine) with International Space Station.  

More than 100 children came to take part of the evening event on April 11, 2012 in Balaklava - very unique place with interesting history as well as known as a place where Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov was born. 

17 questions were asked and after the radio contact was finished we continued communication via phone in combination with video stream available on  http://spacestationlive.jsc.nasa.gov/timeline/index.html

Anton came to the place where web camera is located so we were able not only to speak but also to see what he was doing on board of the station.

During the conversation Daniel Burbank joined giving greetings to all participants on the ground.

Anton has answered 5 more questions and shown how Orlan space suit glovers works, how to drink water in the space. Under storm of applause Anton presented Balaklava's school pennon which he has on board.

Event was organized by Ukrainian radio-amateurs Andrey Begunov - UT9UF and  Oleg Dmitrenko UR4UKV with support of Sevastopol's radio-amateurs, space enthusiast Vladimir Kovgan and Anton's first teacher Irina Bogdanova.

Video available in Russian on following link
http://nts-tv.com/people/11591-radiosvjaz-s-mks.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zynszAuAc
Pictures gallery 
https://picasaweb.google.com/106974759807494328625/30?authuser=0&feat=directlink 

Andrey 

UT9UF