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                        MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1993


SpaceNews originates at KD2BD in Wall Township, New Jersey, USA.  It
is published every week and is made available for unlimited distribution.


* CALLING W5RRR *
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Paul, KC4VBT, reports that on Sunday, the 14th of February, during Mir's
40,000th orbit, R2MIR was heard calling W5RRR first on voice, and then
by packet:

14-Feb-93  13:23:58  R2MIR*>W5RRR [C,P]
14-Feb-93  13:24:04  R2MIR*>W5RRR [C,P]

and then attempted to connect with the JSC's PBBS

14-Feb-93  13:25:06  R2MIR*>W5RRR-1 [C,P]
14-Feb-93  13:25:11  R2MIR*>W5RRR-1 [C,P]

On 18-Feb-93, Dave, N6JLH received the following message via the packet
mailbox on Mir:

Stat   : PR
Posted : 02/18/93 15:55
To     : N6JLH
From   : R2MIR
@ BBS  :
BID    :
Subject: hello!

                           dave!  dobroe utro!
     spasibo za MESSAGES o programme nassa - ispolxzowatx ra-
diol`bitelxsku` swqzx pri poletah {attlow.
     na{i kosmonawty krikalew i titow sej~as prohodqt podgo-
towku k sowmestnomu poletu po programme {attl w hx`stone.
     nam hotelosx by pogoworitxs nimi po radiol`bitelxskoj
swqzi, no W5RRR ne otzywaetsq na na{ wyzow.
       dw pomogi ,povalujsta swqzatxsq s nimi.
     ALEX 73

Which translates to:

Dave!     Good morning!

Thanks for MESSAGES about NASA program to use ham radio on
shuttle missions.

Our cosmonauts Kriklew and Titow are in Houston (sp? I
think, he meant this large city in TX -EAS) training and preparing
for Shuttle flight.

We'd like to talk to them using ham radio, but W5RRR doesn't
answer our calls.
dw, help, please, to get through to them.
ALEX 73.

Maybe if there is someone at W5RRR reading this, they could listen for
R2MIR on future passes.


* STS-55 LAUNCH DELAY *
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Launch of STS-55 and Space Shuttle Columbia has been postponed from
25-Feb-93 until 06-Mar-93.  STS-55 will be the first Shuttle mission this
year to include a SAREX package.


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