A second school QSO was successfully made on January 5, and another school is scheduled for mid-January. We hope to finalize a schedule of one school per week in order to deplete our backlog of school applications, and start scheduling overseas schools. The ISS crew has recently been asked to turn on the packet equipment, and go over their work schedules to try to find open time to make random QSOs. Delegates from Germany and France took part through a teleconference call. NASA representatives from Johnson Space Center and Goddard Space Flight Center also participated.
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The three-days of meetings at Goddard were held to cover proposals for future hardware, operations issues, educational activities and other topics. Rosalie, Frank and Will prepared presentations for the meetings. The Russians will now develop procedures for every minute of the future space walk to deploy the four antenna systems. Various meeting sites were suggested, but it was deemed desirable to meet in the North American continent for one of these meetings per year. We were featured on the AP by space reporter Marcia Dunn, and also in Spaceflight Now and Space Daily.