Thank you for finding/posting that cool video Christine,
Fortunately, I am VERY cozy with both my mics & my key here. Yeah, it did a few years before I finally did plug in the mic after I earned my general. Who woulda thought Morse code could be so much fun and consist of such outstanding ops?! Yet I also have many fine extended phone & digital contacts some local and DX stations.
I am quite skeptical about the first space contact claim however. Old Rocky (w6bme) had confessed to me once that he'd worked every amateur that went to space. Mostly, those hams were from russia. Rocky was in his triple digits when he passed. So yeah, I am both skeptical of the claim and also very curious who would have been the first as there did in deed have to be a first

I didn't enter the amateur radio ranks until the 1990's but man that had to be exciting!
Thanks agn, that was fun. Especially seeing folks in my home state.
73
Jaye