Another empty suit, but this one has something to say...The astronauts on board the International Space Station have a plan for this old Russian spacesuit. It'll be stuffed with old clothes, batteries, and a couple of electronic boxes and tossed overboard where it will become a cheap, homemade satellite and you can listen to the series of messages it will transmit. "All you need is an antenna, the bigger the better, and a radio receiver that you can tune to 145.990 MHz FM," says Frank Bauer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "A police band scanner or a hand-talkie ham radio would work just fine." The mission begins this weekend and ends when the batteries run out.
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