STUDENTS AT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF
BRUSSELS TALK TO SUNITA WILLIAMS
A telebridge ARISS
school contact with the International School of Brussels, Belgium took place
today,
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Signals were excellent and Sunita answered 16 questions from the students before the ISS
went down over the horizon.
Sunita:
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Eating and drinking
initially was not easy because you don’t feel food fitting in your stomach and
it’s a little bit of a pain too because the way you heat it and rehydrate it. So eating is a bit difficult and you can’t
eat things together, you sort of eat serially, one thing after another.
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Every day is a bit
different. We do things from robotic operations to space walks which we call EVA’s, to science experiments, to maintenance of the
station, as well as talking to people like yourself. So every day is different
and that’s scheduled by our control centers in
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It’s just like inside
of a ship, sort of a submarine. However, outside of course it’s very dangerous.
And we have to prepare for it, like a fire or a depressurizing because of a
meteorite. So we have a Soyuz vehicle which is a lifeboat which we can get into
and leave the space station if any of those catastrophic things happened.
About 200 students assisted to the event
as well as parents and teachers. Before the space talk, Gaston Bertels ON4WF had done a presentation of the amateur radio
service in general and more precisely the radio station on the ISS, as well as
an introduction to easy to understand aspects such as the daily number of revolutions,
the orbital plane and the maximum latitudes were a direct radio contact is
possible.
Students were very enthusiastic at least
two of them, a boy and a girl, asked lots of questions on how to become a radio
amateur.
The audio of the radio contact as well
as pictures are hereto appended.
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
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