I got an email from a friend of mine this morning – from the USA. He was telling me how he had managed to contact John Phillips who is currently an Astronaut on the International Space Station. Steve had taken his home satellite station to a local school in Tempe, Arizona, and the pass was quite successful.

He managed to get the story into a newspaper article. Since the Arizona Republic Newspaper is not all that common here in Ingleburn, the link is here

The article does not view in IE7 unfortunately, but I brought it up in Firefox and it was fine. I have attached the photo from the paper. The person on the far left is Steve Bible, a friend of mine.

Long time readers might remember that Steve is one of the architects of the SuitSat project which will also be launched on in the coming months on the Space Station. I am probably seeing steve next month at the conference…