ARISS SCHOOL CONTACT WITH
An International Space Station
Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Escola Camilo Castelo
Branco,
The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and VK5ZAI. For
IRLP - Connect
to the IRLP reflector 9010.
You may also connect via the IRLP
Discovery website at http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/listen.htm.
EchoLink - The audio from this contact will be
available on the EchoLink *AMSAT* (node 101
377) and the *JK1ZRW* (node 277 208) conference rooms. Please connect to the
*JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server. This will
ensure good audio quality for all listeners.
AUDIO STREAMING AND AUDIO REPLAY
PARTICIPANT INFORMATION:
To join the event:
URL: https://e-meetings.mci.com
CONFERENCE NUMBER: 6037110
PASSCODE: SPACE STATIO
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all parties can:
1. Go to the URL listed above.
2. Choose Audio Streaming under Join
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event.
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Camilo Castelo Branco is a
high school in Carnaxide, a city about 10 kilometers from
and educational grades.
Two more schools participate to this
ARISS contact:
- the school Manuel Vaz in Barcarena (95 pupils)
- the school Jorge Mineiro in Queluz de Baixo (420 pupils)
All three schools depend from the same
regional council: Oeiras.
Students will ask as many of the
following questions as time allows:
1. Before leaving for any mission in
space, you have many months of preparation. Is the reality very different from
the tests you go through on Earth?
2. Isn't it
difficult to live in a small closed space during so long a time?
3. What kind of food do you eat?
4. Is there any process of recycling
water in space? If so, what is it?
5. How do you manage to keep the level
of oxygen steady inside the spaceship?
6. How do you get rid of your waste?
7. Do you have any trouble in falling
asleep? How do you distinguish if it's day or night?
8. What's the official language on the
ISS?
9. What do you feel when you see the
Earth from the space? What's the feeling?
10. Isn't it boring only to see stars,
planets and space?
11. What do you miss the most when you
are in space?
12. Is the
relationship between astronauts strictly professional or have you become
friends? Have you ever had any arguments? How did you solve them?
13. How can you repair the spaceship if
it is somehow damaged?
14. For how long can you stay in space?
What is the maximum time? Is there a limit for the number of missions an astronaut
can do in space?
15. When you come back to Earth from a
space mission, how do you adapt to gravity? Do you need any external help? What kind of help?
16. What kind of scientific research are
you doing now?
17. What's the importance of space research
to science and technical progress?
18. What do you think about other
planets colonization? Will it be possible or is it only fiction?
ARISS,
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, an international working
group of several amateur radio societies from countries participating to the
ISS, provides a free educational outreach programme in collaboration with the
Space Agencies, involving a worldwide team of volunteering amateur radio
operators.
Gaston Bertels,
ON4WF
ARISS-Europe
chairman