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Saturday 23 April 2016

ISS contact with Tim Peake: Wellesley House School, Broadstairs, Kent, UK,

My audio

A direct contact via GB1WHS with students at Wellesley House School, Broadstairs, Kent, UK, is presently scheduled for Sat 2016-04-23 12:10:50 UTC 62 deg. The scheduled astronaut is Timothy Peake KG5BVI.

Wellesley House is a prep school with approx. 140 pupils. Our aim is to open up a world of opportunity for girls and boys aged from 7 to 13. We are primarily a boarding school with about one third day pupils. Our catchment is vast, with international pupils as well as pupils from across the South East.

Our ethos is that success follows success, whether in or outside the classroom, and occurs naturally in pupils who are happy and motivated. All pupils are encouraged to push themselves and made to feel secure enough to take risks.

The school provided Space outreach for local schools in October 2014 following Science teacher Kerry Sabin-Dawson’s attendance at the ESERO-UK Space conference - the Primary Frontier in July 2014 in York. Inspired by the initiatives and resources available she held a Space training session for local primary teachers to encourage them to bring space education into the classroom.

Fourteen local schools attended and it was a great success. There was a representative from the Royal Greenwich Observatory, an education liaison officer from the local company Pfizer Ltd, Canterbury STEM ambassador Becky Vincer and John Hislop of the Monkton Stargazers, a local astronomy group. The organiser of the theatre group Spacefund explained how she had written the Team Tim show with the cooperation of Tim Peake, which was promptly booked by some of the schools.

Russian voices on 145.800 at 11:44 UK time today

We have a scheduled school contact later today, there was a bit of confusion about the times, when listening to the 11:44 pass today I heard the Russians talking.

Here is my recording

Here the video of the QSO with the russian cosmonaut on ISS Yuri

The cosmonaut speak at 23 april was Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUP.

but important ... remember this was NOT a random qso, but a "PROGRAMMED" contact to iss !!!

best 73 de Rudy - iw2bsf

A direct contact between cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP with students in Saratov, Russia was successful Sat 2016-04-23 09:06 UTC.
A second contact at 10:41 UTC with students in St. Petersburg, Russia was also successful.