The contact is scheduled at
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
participants at Community School Bergstrasse in
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact is
expected to be conducted in English.
The ARISS contact will be distributed on EchoLink *AMSAT* and *JK1ZRW*
conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Channel 9010.
Students aged between 14 and 18 will meet astronauts, spacecraft
operators and engineers at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt,
during the "Night of Stars". They will ask questions about the education needed to reach the sky.
The highlight of the night will be an ARISS live contact, giving the students
the occasion to ask their questions to an astronaut onboard the ISS, possibly CSA
astronaut Robert Thirsk VA3CS. ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald will be guest of
honour. The event is supported by the ESA Communication Office in
Participants will ask as much of the following questions as time allows.
1. What's the most important experience you made on the ISS?
2. What is the best in your
work as an astronaut?
3. Was it always your first
whish to become an astronaut?
4. What European experiments
are you currently conducting with the
5. When you operate the
experiments, do you have real time voice contact to the experiment team on
ground?
6. What kind of personal
items which you could not take to the ISS do you miss most?
7. Is your leisure time
equally important for you than it was/is on earth?
8. What's the first thing
you'll do when you are back home?
9. What are the differences
in your expectations when you choose to become an astronaut the reality as an
astronaut onboard the ISS?
10. When arriving on the ISS,
how long does it take to become familiar with the station?
11. Are you doing amateur
radio contacts in your leisure time?
12. What kind of music is
your favourite and do you often listen to some music on the ISS?
13. For doing the
housekeeping on the station, is there a fixed
plan who has to do e.g. the vacuum cleaning etc?
14. Does zero gravity relax
the body? Is zero gravity fun?
15. While on the night side
of the earth, have you ever seen meteorites tracks during meteorite showers?
16. What details can you
recognize on earth, e.g. can you see forest fires from space?
17. Do astronauts onboard the
ISS work on weekends?
18. Do you have a right and a
left side on board, do you have a ceiling and a
floor? Is it difficult to keep the orientation inside the ISS?
19. When you have been on the
ISS for a few weeks, is the job becoming routine?
20. With all the life support
and station equipment operating, is it noisy onboard the ISS?
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 onboard 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.
73
Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman