SUCCESSFUL NORWEGIAN ARISS CONTACT FOR
ESA ASTRONAUT CATHERINE COLEMAN,KC5ZTH
Friday, 11 February, 2011 Lillestrøm
videregående skole, Lillestrøm, Norway established an ARISS contact with NASA
astronaut Catherine Coleman.
This was a telebridge contact by ARISS
ground station W5RRR, located in Houston, Texas and operated by Larry Dietrich,
WD8KUJ. Trond Bekken, LA4PGA operated the telebridge in the school.
The conversation was conducted in
English and in Norwegian. Catherine Coleman answered eight questions from the
students.
An audience of 150, authorities and
media participated to this event which was broadcast over EchoLink and IRLP by
John Spasojevitch, AG9D.
The audio recording of this contact is
appended to this Bulletin, archived at www.ariss-eu.org/archive.htm
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Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman