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The first ham in space W5LFL SK - VK4WDM - 19-04-2019
ARRL News reports that Owen Garriott, W5LFL, became a silent key on 15 April. He was 88.
http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-in-space-pioneer-astronaut-owen-garriott-w5lfl-sk
He was the first ham to conduct a QSO from space.
73
Wayne VK4WDM
RE: The first ham in space W5LFL SK - VK3RX - 19-04-2019
I have a recording of his contact with the Orroral Valley tracking station, with the phone patch to Houston (well, his side of the conversation anyway). I don't know if that was his first contact from space and the general contacts happened afterwards though.
Recorded 5 December 1983 when I was working in Mildura, and I subsequently filed a reception report with the ARRL and received a QSL
