* Astronomy

As the clock approached 2:04 p.m. Tuesday, 17-foot-high antennas placed on a baseball field at Merritt Island High rotated to the south, tracking the International Space Station as it flew at 17,500 mph overhead.
Sitting on the bleachers, students watched as amateur ham radio operator John Eccles attempted to contact the station. A computer screen behind him showed the station's location over the Earth.
Eccles and students in the da Vinci Academy of Aerospace Technology had practiced contacting the space station on Saturday.
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