ARISS school contact planned
An International Space Station school
contact has been planned 20 November with participants at Liceo scientifico
Giacinto De Sivo – Fondazione Villaggio dei Ragazzi,
The contact will be operated by IK1SLD,
located in northern
The event will be webcast per streaming
video on http://www.livestream.com/AMSAT_Italia
The high school Liceo scientifico
Giacinto De Sivo of the Fondazione Villaggio dei ragazzi of Maddaloni has been
committed, since its foundation, to spreading scientific knowledge,
particularly focusing on the principal domains of science. Its main goal is to
promote new teaching strategies able to dynamize students. Arid knowledge shall
not be based on handbooks only, but approached by research and critical
discussion. Liceo scientifico is a part of the Villaggio dei Ragazzi foundation,
which comprizes six fields of study: Technical, Aeronautics, Musical,
Linguistic, Transports and Logistics and Scientific High Schools. All 1500
students of the Foundation are involved in the ARISS project, promoted by the
Scientific Lyceum. Questions asking students are aged 14-18.
Participants will ask as many of the
following questions as time allows:
1. What view from space made the biggest
impression on you and why?
2. When and why did you decide to become
an astronaut?
3. If space were an opportunity to build
a new world, how would you make it and is there anyone you love you would take
with you?
4. What type of training did you do for
this mission?
5. Do you believe that in the future
someone will live into empty space?
6. Do you do a special diet?
7. How is it to see the dawn and the
sunset from the space?
8. How long did it take to go into the
space?
9. The space is a special place: is it
how have you imagined it?
10. When are you coming back?
11. What can you see out of the
porthole?
12. What is the ISS speed at the moment?
13. How do you feel without gravity?
14. What’s the aim of your mission?
15. What is the Italian contribution in
this space mission or, more generally, in space missions?
16. What’s your typical day?
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.
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Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS Chairman