ARISS 40th Anniversary
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.
Planned Venue
•Center for Space Education, sponsored by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation
•Co-located on the KSC Visitors Center Property
•Center for Space Education, sponsored by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation
•Co-located on the KSC Visitors Center Property
Registration <add link to form/payment> need tickets
Hotels <add link to hotel list page>
Call for Presentations <add email or link to form>
Please send an abstract of your proposed presentation to <email>
Please send an abstract of your proposed presentation to <email>
Historic Information <add info and email>
If you know of a school/student that participated in an ARISS contact and you have an updateon what the student is doing now in college or the workforce, please provide the information to: <email>
If you know of a school/student that participated in an ARISS contact and you have an updateon what the student is doing now in college or the workforce, please provide the information to: <email>
Sponsorship Opportunities <add link to page>
