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Anousheh Ansari Blogs From Space
gevmage writes "Anousheh Ansari, founder of the X Prize and the fourth 'space tourist' to the International Space Station is going to be writing a blog during her several day visit, which began this last Wednesday. She says in the current entry that her submissions are batched and she doesn't have a live browser to read comments." From the post: "The next morning when I woke up, I was so excited I slipped out of my bag quickly and flew head down to the Descent Module and flipped around and flew right back up to the Habitation Compartment. As soon as I stopped I realized that what I did was not a good idea! I felt my internal organs doing a cha-cha inside my belly ... I stopped and tried to minimize my movements. I basically become a mummy from that point forward. I only did very small slow movements and even that would make me feel really sick ..."
Seriously, she is hot and likes space. :D :D
The Astronauts are almost all Radio Amateurs and there's both voice &
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data Amateur Radio equipment to toy with up there (& lots of classes
of school kids happy to speak with a Space Traveller.
For a real buzz (ie, after viewing Earth from Space & all the Science
experiments has been done), this Space Tourist should really try to
make a connection or three with some Muslim schools; I think it would
even be a first (as most of the schools that are selected from the
queue are from USA, I understand).
If anyone can get the suggestion up there to her, maybe she'll be kind
enough to give such schools (or any schools or other Hams she might
find on-the-air, for that matter) a Big Thrill, as well as a model of
what's possible - these days - for a woman of means to do.
Oh, for those who'd like to listen to on-air chats with the ISS, the
place to go for dates/times, frequencies & pass predictions is:
http://heavens-above.com/
Eg, select your location - eg, someplace in United Arab Emerates - & go
- from the selection page to a page like this one:
http://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.asp?lat=25.7
It's also possible to display info for LOTS of Amateur Radio equipped
satellites which are likely 'visible' from your location, eg, here:
http://heavens-above.com/amateursats.asp?lat=25.7
(Not knowing any place names in the UAR, I just picked one from the list that came up,
in response to my entering "*" for Town/City, to get each of the following URLs.)
Enjoy & let us know what you hear!