Amateur
Radio on the
International
Space
Station
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Space Station
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Expedition
Launch Mode
Launch Date
Commander
Flight Engineer-1
Flight Engineer-2
1
Soyuz
October 2000
Bill Shepherd
KD5GSL
Sergei Krikalev
U5MIR
Yuri Gidzenko,
RK3DOG
2
Shuttle
March 2001
Yury Usachev
RW3FU
James Voss
(NA1SS)
Susan Helms
KC7NHZ
3
Shuttle
August 2001
Frank Culbertson
KD5OPQ
Vladimir Dezhurov
RK3DUD
Mikhail Tyurin,
RZ3FT
4
Shuttle
December 2001
Yury I. Onufrienko
RK3DUO
Daniel W. Bursch
KD5PNU
Carl E. Walz
KC5TIE
5
Shuttle
June 2002
Valery Korzun
RZ3FK
Peggy Whitson
KC5ZTD
Sergei Treschev
RZ3FU
6
Shuttle
November 2002
Kenneth Bowersox
KD5JBP
Donald Pettit
KD5MDT
Nikolai Budarin
RV3FB
7
Soyuz
April 2003
Yuri Malenchenko
RK3DUP
Ed Lu
KC5WKJ
8
Soyuz
October 2003
Michael Foale
KB5UAC
Alexander Kaleri
U8MIR
9
Soyuz
March 2004
Gennady Padalka
RN3DT
Michael Fincke
KE5AIT
10
Soyuz
October 2004
Leroy Chiao
KE5BRW
Salizhan Sharipov
(RS0ISS)
11
Soyuz
April 2005
Sergei Krikalev
U5MIR
John Phillips
KE5DRY
12
Soyuz
October 2005
Bill McArthur
KC5ACR
Valeri Tokarev
(RS0ISS)
13
Soyuz
March 2006
Pavel Vinogradov
RV3BS
Jeff Williams
KD5TVQ
13/14
Shuttle
July 2006
Thomas Reiter
DF4TR
14
Soyuz
September 2006
Michael Lopez-Alegria KE5GTK
Mikhail Tyurin
RZ3FT
14/15
Shuttle
STS-116
December 2006
Sunita Williams
KD5PLB
15
Soyuz
April 2007
Fyodor N. Yurchikhin
RN3FI
Oleg V. Kotov
15/16
Shuttle
STS-117
June 2007
Clayton Anderson
KD5PLA
16
Soyuz
October 2007
Peggy Whitson
KC5ZTD
Yuri Malenchenko
RK3DUP
16
Shuttle
STS-120
October 2007
Daniel Tani
KD5DXE
16
Shuttle
STS-122
February 2008
Leopold Eyharts
KE5FNO
16/17
Shuttle
STS-123
March 2008
Garrett Reisman
KE5HAE
17
Soyuz
April 2008
Sergey Volkov
RU3DIS
Oleg Kononenko
RN3DX
17/18
Shuttle
STS-124
May 2008
Greg Chamitoff
KD5PKZ
18
Soyuz
October 2008
Mike Fincke
KE5AIT
Yury Lonchakov
RA3DT
18
Shuttle
STS-126
November 2008
Sandra Magnus
KE5FYE
18/19/20
Shuttle
STS-119
March 2009
Koichi Wakata
KC5ZTA
19/20
Soyuz
March 2009
Gennady Padalka
RN3DT
Michael R. Barratt
KD5MIJ
20/21 Soyuz May 2009
Frank De Winne ON1DWN
Roman Romanenko
Robert Thirsk VA3CSA
20 Shuttle
STS-127
July 2009
Timothy Kopra
KE5UDN
20/21
Shuttle
STS-128
August 2009
Nicole Stott
KE5GJN
21/22
Soyuz
September 2009
Jeffrey Williams
KD5TVQ
Maxim Suraev
22/23
Soyuz
December 2009
Oleg Kotov Timothy Creamer
KC5WKI
Soichi Noguchi
KD5TVP
23/24
Soyuz
April 2010
Alexander Skvortsov Mikhail Kornienko
RN3DX
Tracy Caldwell KF5DBF
24/25
Soyuz
May 2010
Douglas Wheelock KF5BOC
Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI
Shannon Walker
KD5DXB
25/26
Soyuz
September 2010
Scott Kelly Alexander Kaleri U8MIR
Oleg Skripochka
RN3FU
26/27
Soyuz
November 2010
Dimitri Kondratyev Catherine Coleman
KC5ZTH
Paolo Nespoli
IZ0JPA
27/28
Soyuz
March 2011
Alexander Samokutyayev Andrei Borisenko Ronald Garan 28/29
Soyuz
June 2011
Michael Fossum KF5AQG
Sergei Volkov RU3DIS
Satoshi Furukawa
KE5DAW
29/30
Soyuz
September 2011 Daniel Burbank KC5ZSX
Anton Shkaplerov Sergei Revin RN3BS
More Information about Russian amateurs in the space program
In Russia there are four classes of radio amateurs. The highest is first class. Their call sign has 5 characters.
Sergey Samburov RV3DR
Sergei Treschev RZ3FU
Valeri Korzun RZ3FK
Fyodor Yurchikhin RN3FI
Yury Lonchakov RA3DT
Nikolai Budarin RV3FB
Alexsandr Kaleri U8MIR
Sergey N Revin RN3BS
Michail B Kornienko RN3BF
Oleg D. Kononenko RN3DX
Gennady I. Padalka RN3DT
For Second Class licences the call sign has 6 characters.
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP
The lowest class allows the operator to carry out conversations from a board the ISS in VHF/UHF only .The following cosmonauts use the shared radio station RS0ISS which has a first class license (based on the chief of the station (RV3DR)).
Sergey Zalyotin (op. RS0ISS)
Valery Tokarev (op.RS0ISS)
Salizhan S. Sharipov (op.RS0ISS)The call sign of the PMS mailbox RS0ISS-1
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