S35-05-037 - STS-035 - STS-35 Commander Brand talks to family using SAREX on OV-102's middeck

The original finding aid described this as:

Description: STS-35 Commander Vance D. Brand, wearing a headset, communicates with family members using 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: Crew Activities

Interior_Exterior: Interior

Ground_Orbit: On-orbit

Element: Shuttle Middeck

Original: Film - 35MM CN

Preservation File Format: TIFF
STS-35