S35-07-017 - STS-035 - STS-35 Pilot Gardner conducts the SAREX experiment on OV-102's middeck
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Description: STS-35 Pilot Guy S. Gardner, wearing a headset, conducts the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) on Columbia's, Orbiter Vehicle (OV) 102's, middeck. SAREX and its portable laptop computer mounted on the outside of the middeck sleep station allowed the STS-35 crewmembers to visit members. It also provided radio transmissions between ground based amateur radio operators around the world and OV-102. The experiment enabled students from all over the United States to have a chance to communicate with a crewmember in space.
Subject Terms: STS-35, COLUMBIA (ORBITER), ASTRONAUTS, MIDDECK, COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, COMPUTERS, PORTABLE EQUIPMENT, HEADSETS, SHORT WAVE RADIO TRANSMISSION, SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS
Categories: Experiment (Non-medical)
Interior_Exterior: Interior
Ground_Orbit: On-orbit
Element: Shuttle Middeck
Original: Film - 35MM CN
Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-35
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