July 25, 2008

ARISS SCHOOL CONTACT IN HUNGARY SUCCESSFUL

The ARISS school contact with participants from the European Space Camp 2008 at the Zanka Children and Youth Centre, near Lake Balaton, Zanka, Hungary was successful.

Ground station HA5KHC established contactThursday 24 July 2008 at 21:00 local time with US astronaut Gregory Chamitoff KD5PKZ onboard the International Space Station.

Greg answered 6 questions from the students. 120 students assisted to the space talk.

The audio from this contact is available at http://www.ariss-eu.org/Zanka_2008_07_24.mp3

Pictures will be made available on the Archive page soon.

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Gaston Bertels, ON4WF

ARISS-Europe chairman