October 4,
2009
ASTRONAUT FRANK DE WINNE TALKS TO CIENCIA VIVA MUSEUM IN LISBON, PORTUGAL
Thursday, October 1, 2009, the Ciencia Viva Museum in Lisbon, Portugal,
performed an ARISS contact with astronaut Frank de Winne. The
contact was a telebridge between onboard station NA1SS and the ARISS telebridge
ground station ON4ISS in
Gaston Bertels ON4WF was the moderator of the contact.
The Pavilion of Knowledge - Pavilho do Conhecimento - Ciencia Viva is a National
Museum of Science and Technology in
The ARISS contact at Ciencia Viva is a major event within the nationwide
celebrated Space Week from October 4 to 10.
For the ARISS contact, students aged between 14 and 16 years from
different schools in Amadora, one of the main satellite cities in the outskirts
of
The contact was prepared by the president of AMRAD/AMSAT-CT, Mariano Gonçalvez
CT1XI, and the telebridge contact coordinator Fabiano Moser CT/PY5RX. John,
AG9D, did the feeding into the AMSAT Echolink server.
The audience was about 300 people.
At 14.15 UTC, i.e. 15.15 local time, contact with
NA1SS was established by ON4ISS. The astronaut Frank De Winne answered all the
20 questions. He described life on the ISS in one word only: fantastic.
The audio from the ISS was excellent all the time. There was enough time left
for exchanging greetings.
The contact was covered by the national newspaper DN.
A video is available at
http://www.cvtv.pt/imagens/index.asp?id_tag=15&id_video=408
Congratulations to the Ciencia Viva team!
73, Peter Kofler, IN3GHZ, ARISS mentor
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