Four Ways Ham Radio Connects and Inspires the World
ISS014-E-18307 (27 March 2007) --- Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, Expedition 14 flight engineer, talks with students at the International School of Brussels in Belgium during an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact in the Zvezda Service Module.
Media Credit: NASA
Crew members onboard the International Space Station communicate with students all over the world using the station’s ham radio. Since its inaugural contact in 2000, the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) project has been used to connect more than a quarter of a million students with the astronauts living and working onboard the space station.