Astronaut Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, will be talking to students from his old school

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ARISS event - Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska, USA

An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Ashland Greenwood High School, Ashland, Nebraska USA on 29 August. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:03 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and K0ASH. The contact should be audible in most of the central United States. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. In addition, the audio should be available via IRLP and EchoLink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Ashland-Greenwood Public School has 879 students and is actively engaged in providing a well rounded education.

The excitement has grown in the curriculum areas of science and space because Astronaut Clay Anderson, KD5PLA, is a 1977 graduate of the school.

Ashland, Nebraska, population 2,262, is located in southeastern Nebraska between Lincoln, the state capitol, and Omaha. Principal products are agriculture and light manufacturing.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. What happens if someone becomes very ill during your mission?
2. Did being in space make you nauseous at first?
3. What was your shuttle ride like and how hard was it on your body?
4. What research projects are you working on in space? Which ones will affect the people in Nebraska?
5. Was scuba diving part of your astronaut training?

6. What do you do with your spare time in space?
7. Were you required to learn a foreign language in order to
communicate with your crew members?
8. How is physical activity affected while in space? Do you burn more calories? Do you have better stamina? How is your heart rate and blood pressure affected? Would you rather do two a days for football in space rather than on earth?
9. How do you get your exercise?
10. What do you do for entertainment?

11. What is the hardest thing to adjust to being in space?
12. What is your favorite thing to eat in space?
13. I heard many Boy Scouts became astronauts. Were you a boy scout?
14. What exercising do you do in space? What is the importance of exercising often in space?
15. Were you required to learn mechanical skills in order to work on the space station? If so what are some you had to do?

16. How has your goal of going to space, which to some may seem like a lofty and near impossible goal that has become reality, affected how you go about attaining and setting other goals in life? Do you work towards these goals any differently than your dream of being in space?
17. Do you see a sunrise or a sunset everyday and if you do what are the colors that you see when you look out your window?
18. How well do you get along with the people you work with?
19. What is the first thing you want to do when you get back to earth?

20. Is it hard to sleep?
21. Do you get dehydrated in space?
22. If you were working with tools on the space station and lost hold of one, what would happen to it?
23. When you are on Earth and working with NASA is it hard to maintain your personal life? Or is it like the military where you have no personal life?
24. What areas of your high school career helped you achieve your goal of being an astronaut? Now that you are in space and when you come back what will be next in your career?
25. You have been promoted to run the space station for the next year. What would be your three highest priorities for its mission?

Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact

Next planned event(s):
Gail Borden Public Library, Elgin, Illinois, direct via N9CHA Wed 2007-09-05 18:38 UTC

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 on-board 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.

Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).

Thank you & 73,
Kenneth - N5VHO