An International Space Station ARISS
school contact has been planned with students at Puskás
Tivadar Távközlési Technikum,
The contact will be a direct between Charles
Simonyi HA5SIK onboard the ISS and HA5KHC. The contact should be audible in
most of
Students will ask the following
questions:
1. How do you feel yourself in the
weightlessness?
2. How does the Hungarian PILLE work?
3. How does it feel when you look at the
Earth from the space station? Does it really look like in the pictures?
4. What kind of experiments have you
done on the space station?
5. Are you satisfied with the operating
system of the computer on the space station?
6. What book and which personality had
big influence on you during your professional career?
Please note, the amateur equipment on
the ISS is not functioning in the automatic modes properly and may be silent
more than usual..
ARISS is an international educational
outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian
Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations
from participating countries.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students
to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with
crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and
communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can
energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning.
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Gaston Bertels
– ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman