🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1991Jun07.061832.24261@ariel.unm.edu> ollie@hydra.unm.edu (Ollie Eisman N6LTJ) writes:

>Has anyone else noticed that, on the Mercator projection tracking
>screen in Mission Control, an object that looks a lot like the Soviet
>space station "Mir" is being tracked?

They added Mir (in red :-) to the display on December for STS-35.  Ron
Parise (WA5SIR) was scheduled to make a contact using amateur radio
equipment from the shuttle to the Musa Manarov (U2MIR) on board Mir. 
Ron and Musa are both amateur radio operators.  The contact didn't occur
because they landed a day early. 

On STS-37 in April, we again had amateur radio operators on board the
shuttle (the entire crew this time) and a successful (although brief)
contact was made between Ken Cameron (KB5AWP) and Musa Manarov (U2MIR). 

I'm kind of surprised they are still tracking Mir on the map display, I
thought they would take if back off after STS-37.  I don't get NASA
Select here (I was in Houston until April) so I didn't know they were
still showing Mir on the map. 
--GaryM
-- 
Gary Morris                       Internet: garym@telesoft.com
KK6YB (was N5QWC)                 UUCP:     ucsd!telesoft!garym
TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA      Phone:    +1 619-457-2700