STS-35 Payload Specialist (PS) Ronald A. Parise conducts the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) from a sleep station 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.
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STS-35 Payload Specialist (PS) Ronald A. Parise conducts the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX) from a sleep station 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.