ARISS 40th Anniversary

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    Overview
  • During the November/December 1983 fight of the STS-9 Space Shuttle Columbia mission, astronaut Owen Garriott, W5LFL, performed numerous amateur radio contacts. 
 
  • This public interaction with on-board astronauts, independent of mission control, represented a transformational change in astronaut on-board communications.
 
  • In the past 40 years the amateur radio community innovated many human spaceflight “firsts” now emulated by others, e.g. school contacts, friends and family connections, engaging STEM activities and on-board experiments, deployment of satellites from ISS (Suitsat), etc.
Celebration Plans

• 2024 ARISS International Face to Face Meeting
• Tours of the NASA Kennedy Space Center/Visitors Center
• 40th Anniversary Conference with VIP Keynote Speakers (Astronauts/Cosmonauts) and adjacent exhibit area
• Evening Reception in Exhibit Area
• Gala Dinner with VIP Keynote Speaker(s)
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Planned Venue

•Center for Space Education, sponsored by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation
•Co-located on the KSC Visitors Center Property
Agenda
Registration  <need tickets> <try payment> form sends reg to an email- replace?
Hotels
Call for Presentations <email(?) or link to form?>Please send an abstract of your proposed presentation to Astro-hams-40yrs@ariss-i.org

Historic Information <email?>
If you know of a school/student that participated in an ARISS contact and you have an update on what the student is doing now in college or in the workforce, please provide the information to: Astro-hams-40yrs@ariss-i.org
Video format is acceptable.
Sponsorship Opportunities