Two more astronauts get ham radio licences

Andre Kuipers, PI9ISS had an ISS amateur radio review session on May 4 in preparation for his tour on the ISS as part of the Expedition 30 crew. Don Pettit, KD5MDT will join him as part of that crew and will receive his review of the amateur radio systems in two weeks.

Ron Garan of Expedition 27 completed testing for his amateur radio license and has been issued KF5GPO.
He will receive his operational basics course next week.

Kevin Ford has been issued the callsign of KF5GPP and is currently training for a future expedition crew assignment.

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