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GB8SSD Space Shuttle Discovery Maiden Space Flight 33 years ago Today

Chertsey Radio Club continues to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of the maiden space flight of Space Shuttle Discovery with SES GB8SSD

Space Shuttle Discovery soars away from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, beginning its maiden voyage and a storied spaceflight career that spanned more than 26 years. The on-time liftoff occurred at 8:42 A.M. EDT.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbital Vehicle-103) took off for the first time on August 30, 1984, beginning what would become 27 years of reliable service.

In its nearly three decades of use, Discovery successfully completed 39 missions, the first of which was putting three communication satellites into orbit

This maiden voyage came more than two months later than planned. It was delayed from its originally scheduled launch date after experiencing the Space Shuttle program's first launch abort at T-6 seconds on June 26, 1984.

Discovery includes among its many credits the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, John Glenn’s second flight (when he was 77 years old), and both research and International Space Station assembly missions.

Discovery’s last launch was in February 2011, before it was retired in March 2011. It was the first operational NASA shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and Atlantis.

Discovery celebrated its retirement with an April 2012 victory lap where it piggy backed on a modified Boeing 747 to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, on its way to be put permanent display. 

STS-41D, Discovery's first launch & landing (8-30-84)

ABC News Coverage of the STS-41-D Launch

1984 Space Shuttle Highlights NASA STS-41-B, STS-41-C, STS-41-D, STS-41-G, STS-51-A

Shri Timli Vidyapeeth India school contact to ISS

Above is the contact with the School and ISS beended

Below, is M0JFP copy on the RT95 retevis radio form the UK.

Emergency call via GB3WR - M6MGE & G6ASK

May Day May Day !!

Chertsey Radio club contacted Mike to congratulate him on professional handling of the call / situation and let him know he did an amazing professional job. A credit to himself and the hobby.

Mike M6MGE unexpectedly had to handle a 999 (equiv 911) emergency call from John G6ASK via the repeater GB3WR 

The YouTube description reads: 

Wasn't expecting this, So got a little tongue tied!

UPDATE: Michaela (May) Has made a full recovery and continues to enjoy her holiday in Exmouth.

ISS cross band repeater active over UK 15:30 **We have contact**

Today we were lucky enough to send voice message via the International space station and talk to other ham radio operators around the world.

Signal was sent up on 437.050 and relayed back by the space station on 145.800


Happy to report I was able to work 2M0SQL, G0ABI, G7SVR (Isle of wight) and F4DXV

Audio from Peter 2M0SQL here

My audio linked below: