Radio contact with the
International Space Station

7 March 2002

Harrogate Ladies' College was the first UK school to make amateur radio contacts with Mir and the Space Shuttle. 

Richard Horton G3XWH (Director IT Systems) with Svetlana Faerberg and YL operators during one of the MIR contacts with the all-Russian crew in 1999.

The First British Astronaut
Helen Sharman May 1991

The picture (right) shows Helen Sharman receiving her special Amateur Radio license GB1MIR from Richard Horton G3XWH, to operate from the Soviet Mir Space Station. The photograph was taken in Star City (the training base for Cosmonauts outside Moscow) one month prior to launch of the mission.

Here (left) is Helen in the 'shack' of G0HCA at Harrogate Ladies' College after her return to earth. She is talking to Anna-Karin G7IRR (left) and Katy G7NST. Katy was the winner of our competition to ask Helen the first school's question from Mir -

"If you had no clock on board Mir, what would give you sense of time in space?"

Revised: 10/03/2008

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