ISS COMMANDER MIKE FINCKE KE5AIT TALKS WITH ITALIAN SCHOOL
The students had been involved in the preparation of this ARISS event in
different ways. The training of the students comprised satellite contacts
during the weeks before the ARISS event. They also operated the reception of
SSTV pictures, sent from the ISS by Richard Garriott W5KWQ.
Michele Mallardi, IZ7EVR, the contact coordinator for this ISS contact, decided
in favour of a direct contact. The questions were read by the students. The
contact site was located in the school, where an audience of more than 500,
students, parents, teachers, visitors and the mass media could follow the
contact.
At
The signal from the ISS was loud and clear all the time at the schools
contact site.
Two TV stations (CANALE 7, TeleNorba)and three
newspapers (L'Informatore, Il Levante, Il Fax) covered the event.
Congratulations
to the “Scuola Donato Forlani” team!
73
Francesco De
Paolis, IK0WGF
ARISS mentor
