[amsat-bb] ARISS SSTV Images to Commmemorate 40th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Mission

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ASTP was also the first and only flight of original Mercury Astronaut Deke Sleyton who finally got his chance on a truly historic flight.

73,
John AG9D

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On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:22 AM, "Frank Bauer" <ka3hdo at verizon.net> wrote:

> 40 years ago this week, the historic joint Apollo-Soyuz mission was
> conducted.   Apollo-Soyuz (or Soyuz-Apollo in Russia) represented the first
> joint USA-Soviet mission and set the stage for follow-on Russia-USA space
> collaboration on the Space Shuttle, Mir Space Station and the International
> Space Station.  The Soyuz and Apollo vehicles were docked from July 17-19,
> 1975, during which time joint experiments and activities were accomplished
> with the 3 USA astronauts and 2 Soviet Cosmonauts on-board.  Apollo-Soyuz
> was the final mission of the Apollo program and the last USA human
> spaceflight mission until the first space shuttle mission in 1981.
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> To commemorate the 40th anniversary of this historic international event,
> the ARISS team has developed a series of 12 Slow Scan Television (SSTV)
> images that will be sent down for reception by schools, educational
> organizations and ham radio operators, worldwide.  The SSTV images are
> planned to start sometime Saturday morning, July 18 and run through Sunday
> July 19.  These dates are tentative and are subject to change.  The SSTV
> images can be received on 145.80 MHz and displayed using several different
> SSTV computer programs that are available on the internet.  
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> We encourage you to submit your best received SSTV images to:
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> http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/submit.php
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> The ARISS SSTV image gallery will post the best SSTV images received from
> this event at:
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> http://spaceflightsoftware.com/ARISS_SSTV/index.php
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> Also, as a special treat, on Saturday July 18 the ISS Cosmonauts will take
> time out to conduct an ARISS contact with students attending the Moon
> Day/Frontiers of Flight Museum event in Dallas Texas.  This Russian
> Cosmonaut-USA Student contact is planned to start around 16:55 UTC through
> the W6SRJ ground station located in Santa Rosa, California.  ARISS will use
> the 145.80 MHz voice frequency downlink (same as the SSTV downlink) for the
> Moon Day contact.
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> For more information on ARISS, please go to our web site:  www.ariss.org
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> The ARISS international team would like to thank our ARISS-Russia colleague,
> Sergey Samburov, RV3DR, for his leadership on this historic commemoration.
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> Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
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> ARISS International Chair
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