I once again had the pleasure to help a group of young people make contact with an Astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) this past week. The Scouts were participating in a Jamboree in Victoria, Australia. You can learn more about the event, called VicJam, here…
Scouts in Victoria, Australia made contact with Astronaut Mark VandeHei, KG5GNP this past Tuesday, January 4th, 2022.
Astronaut Mark VandeHei KG5GNP
You can learn more about this contact and watch it via the following link.
I had the pleasure of serving as the ARISS contact moderator for the Youth On The Air (YOTA) 2021 Camp’s contact with the International Space Station (ISS) using Amateur Radio today. Young Hams spent the week at the Voice of America Bethany Relay Station in West Chester, OH engaging in a variety of Amateur Radio Activities…
The Nashua Area Radio Society has partnered with Bishop Guertin High School for several years on STEM and Amateur Radio activities. The latest activity is the Bishop Guertin ISS Contact.
Astronaut Shannon Walker, KD5DXB
The recent Bishop Guertin ISS Contact with Astronaut Shannon Walker has had quite a bit of media coverage. There is news of the Contact everywhere that you look. You will find coverage of the students talking with Shannon Walker on the ISS on TV, in Newspapers, on the Radio, and on the Internet,
Television Coverage
After the conclusion of the Contact, a reporter from WMUR interviewed the BGHS students over Zoom. The story was on all of their evening news broadcasts on Friday as well as Saturday morning. Readers can view the story below.
The Bishop Guertin Students were also interviewed for Boston TV.
The BGHS students and their partnership with the Nashua Area Radio Society were featured in a spot on WCVB News in Boston on Tuesday, February 23rd. You can view the video and an article about the contact at this link on their website.
The BGHS ARISS contact was also featured on the front page of the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper. Here is a link to the article on the Union Leader’s website.
The Nashua Telegraph published an article announcing the contact on February 18th. The article can be found at this link.
On YouTube
You can watch the Contact in its entirety below. The video includes a great introductory program with a video made by the BGHS students.
We will keep an eye out for additional media coverage of the contact and add links to this article as we see them.
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