ARISS school contact planned
An International Space Station school
contact has been planned
The contact will be operated by W6SRJ,
located in
The contact will be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW (node 277 208) Conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.
The
School Liceo Liguistico (high school) and the Scuola Media (middle school) have
been operating in
The
courses that the institute offers are multilingual and multicultural (99% of
our students speak at least two languages from their early childhood, generally
German and Italian). This aspect is particularly relevant in
In the
first and third class of the middle school (Scuola Media) and in the first and
fifth class of the High School (Liceo Linguistico), the students
wera given lessons about space. The first thing they all learned was the
distance between Earth and the ISS, and then the Moon, the Sun, and Proxima
Centaury. The idea of distances in space and the difficulty of understanding the
spatial proportions really fascinated the students. In parallel they were
informed about everything that is related to the ISS: building the ISS, living
in the ISS, going to and coming back from the ISS, all supported by NASA news
and youtube videos. They explored the Solar System looking at many images of
each planet on the web. They focused on
Teachers
and students take the opportunity to greet the crew members of the present
mission, thanking them for exploring new possibilities for humanity and paving
the way for future space exploration and enriching scientific knowledge in many
science fields. We gratefully thank you for what you are doing!
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1.
Gioele (11). How does it feel before such an important and unusual mission?
2.
Leonardo (11). What is the scientific discipline which is most ideally suited
that has more possibilities to be carried out in space?
3.
Marco (14). How do you take care of yourself in case you are ill, for example
if you have fever?
4.
Silvia (14). How many years of training are necessary before you go into space?
Is there a selection?
5.
Vanessa (12). How many modules is the ISS made of?
6.
Sharath (14). When do you think the rest of humanity would also be albe to live
in space like you now?
7.
Evelin (15). How do you take a shower on the ISS?
8. Jeremie
(15). How much does the astronaut's space suit cost?
9.
Chiara (14). What do you mostly miss there?
10.
Andrea (16). Could you roughly make a weather forecast by looking at the Earth?
11.
Valerio (18). Do you organize social activities with the crew members during
your free time?
12.
Lorenzo (21). Do you think you will have problems readapting yourself to
gravity when you are back on earth?
13.
Daniele (18). What was your first sentence or thoughts when you experienced
microgravity for the first time?
14.
Olga (20). Which type of food do you eat on the ISS?
15.
Gioele (11). Did you easily get used to staying in space?
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