ARISS SCHOOL CONTACT PLANNED WITH DELTA
RESEARCHERS SCHOOLS
An International Space Station ARISS
school contact has been planned with students of Delta Researchers Schools,
gathered at ESA/Space Expo, Noordwijk, the
The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and NN1SS. NA1SS will be
operated by Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria. The contact
should be audible in portions of Central and
Additional listening options are listed
below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in
English.
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.
Students will ask as many of the
following questions as time allows:
1.
2. Guy. How do you become an astronaut?
3. Nina. When you disembark from a boat, it often feels like the earth
is moving under your feet. What is the feeling upon returning from space?
4. Max. What and how do you eat in space? Is the food good?
5. Pieter-Bas. Can you breathe on the ISS? Where does the oxygen come
from?
6. Niek. Sometimes there are magnetic storms
in space, as a result of coronal mass ejections on the sun. Can a spacesuit
withstand such a storm, or must astronauts go inside?
7. Genimah. Why did you become an astronaut?
8. Julia. Can you smell in space?
9. Viva. Do you miss your family?
10. Tim. What was the most remarkable thing you have ever seen in space?
11. Thom. There is a lot of debris floating around in space. Why hasn’t
the ISS been hit yet? Is it in a special orbit around the earth?
12. Kiki. Can you send text messages from
space? And can you internet in space?
13. Eva. What does it feel like to be in space?
14. Do you have to chew something during
take off?
15. Brian. How does the ISS stay on course? Do you have to steer, and if
so, how do you do this while you sleep?
16. Viva. Would fish in an aquarium in space know that they are
weightless?
17. Tim. What was your first thought when you travelled into space?
18. Guy. What happens when you make music in space?
19. Brian. Do watches work in space? Which time zone do you use?
20. Kiki. If you fill a balloon with helium
and let go of it on the ISS, where would it go?
Please note, the amateur equipment on
the ISS is not functioning in the automatic modes properly and may be silent
more than usual.
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