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ARLS028 SAREX airshow contact
 
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Space Bulletin 028  ARLS028
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT  July 18, 1994
To all radio amateurs
 
SB SPACE ARL ARLS028
ARLS028 SAREX airshow contact
 
SAREX Airshow Contact
 
Approximately 100,000 attendees at the Aerospace American annual
airshow in Oklahoma City heard a 2-way Shuttle Amateur Radio
EXperiment (SAREX) contact on July 17.  Present at the airshow was
retired three-star Air Force Lieutenant General Tom Stafford.  He
was patched by telephone to Commander Bob Cabana, KC5HBV on board
the Space Shuttle Columbia via amateur stations WH6CJU in Hawaii,
N6IZW in San Diego, CA, and W5GEL in Corpus Christi, TX.  Each of
the stations are part of a SAREX worldwide telebridge ground station
network.
 
General Stafford is a former astronaut who flew aboard the Gemini 9
and Apollo 10 missions, and commanded the US/Russian Apollo-Soyuz
test project.  The SAREX exchange of greetings between Stafford and
Cabana reflected upon the 25th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission
to the moon.
 
The contact was managed by Frank Bauer, KA3HDO at the Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and by Lou McFadin, W5DID and Gil
Carman, WA5NOM from the SAREX Control Room at Mission Control at the
Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, TX.
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