KD5OPQ does First Space Walk

From the ARRL...



International Space Station Expedition 3 Commander Frank Culbertson, KD5OPQ,
and Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov conducted a five-hour space walk, or
extra-vehicular activity (EVA), as NASA calls it, on November 12. The
EVA--Culbertson's first, but the last for the current crew--completed the
external outfitting of the PIRS docking compartment on the ISS. Flight
Engineer Mikhail Tyurin monitored the activities from inside the ISS and
operated the robotic arm, providing television views for flight controllers
in Houston and Moscow.





The ISS Expedition 4 crew of Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Flight Engineers
Dan Bursch, KC5PNU, and Carl Walz, KC5TIE, launches aboard the shuttle
Endeavour November 29. In addition to a new crew, new Amateur Radio antennas
are manifested aboard the shuttle for transport to the ISS. The new antennas
will be installed around the perimeter of the Service Module, allowing
future operation from HF to microwave frequencies. The HF antenna is made up
of a flexible tape that will work on 10-meters--and possibly 15 and 20
meters.



The ISS is on orbit at an average altitude of 247 statute miles above Earth.
For more information about the ISS, visit NASA's Human Space Flight Web
site, <http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/>.--NASA, ARISS, via AMSAT News Service