"Frank X. Bauer" was a brewery worker and beer truckdriver from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who served one term as a Socialist Party of America/Socialist member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

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All you need is an antenna (the bigger the better) and a radio receiver that you can tune to 145.990 MHz FM. A police band scanner or a hand-talkie ham radio would work just fine.

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If the transmitter is running at full power, we would expect the suit to have ended operations after a few days to a week. If it is transmitting at lower power, then it will operate much longer.

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We're not telling. It's a mystery picture.

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Pioneering efforts are challenging. Risk is high. But the future payoff is tremendous. As you have seen, we have not had total success. But we have captured the imagination of the students and the general public. And we have already learned a lot from this activity. This will help us and others grow from this experience.

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Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schools should be primarily driven by demands of the marketplace and not by the demands of a potential student body.

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There's a ham rig on the ISS, and the astronauts love talking to students when they pass over schools.

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Will the suit overheat? How long will the batteries last? Can we get a clear transmission if the suit tumbles?

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It is quite exciting to see the inspirational spark that is produced in students when they talk to explorers living and working in space. The ARISS team of volunteers looks forward to working with Dr. Olsen and preparing the schools for this once in a lifetime event.

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This will allow us to understand how well we can utilize these suits to perform scientific and engineering measurements and, at the same time, capture the imagination of students around the world.

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