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 ARISS
Event - Dale High School, Tuesday Feb 7
An International Space Station Expedition 12 ARISS school contact has
been planned with students at Dale High School, Dale, OK, USA on Tuesday,
07 February. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:56 UTC.
The contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and KD5GEZ. The contact
should be audible to anyone in the Central region of the USA. Interested
parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants
are expected to conduct the conversation in English.
Dale, OK, is a small, rural community about thirty miles east of Oklahoma
City. Most of the students that attend Dale Public Schools do not live
within the Dale city limits but in the surrounding areas. All schools
are co-located on a common campus in Dale. As in most communities, the
student population is quite diverse. Of the more than 700 students enrolled
in January 2006, approximately fifteen percent are Native American.
Dale Public Schools have many outstanding academic and sports programs
along with extra-curricular activities that include agriculture, family
and consumer sciences, the arts, and drama. Dale High School is truly
the home of state championship basketball, baseball, and softball. Programs
are available for both genders. Many gifted/talented activities are also
available for students.
Students at Dale will ask as many of the following questions as time
allows:
1. How complicated is it to do everyday things like eating, exercising
and sleeping?
2. Is your work entertaining enough to keep you occupied during all your
waking hours or do you need a break?
3. What experiments are you conducting now?
4. How much training does it take to become an astronaut?
5. Is it scary to go into and work in space?
6. How does it feel or what is it equivalent to on earth, being in a zero
gravity environment?
7. Do you get to communicate with your family often and how, e-mail, talking
on the radio?
8. Zero gravity in space has a negative effect on your muscles and bones,
so what workouts, diets and exercises do you follow to counter these effects?
9. How long did it take to go through all the training and does the training
feel the same as being in outer space?
10. I want to know about how much fun it is to be in zero gravity and
does it continue to be fun over time?
11. Do you feel pressure or lose sleep knowing that a system failure or
meteor could be fatal?
12. What is the food like?
13. What do you miss the most?
14. Do you have entertainment? If so, what kind?
15. What was your favorite experiment?
16. Do you ever have a language problem?
17. How do you go to the bathroom?
18. Do you get to shower in space?
19. Have you found anything cool in space?
20. Does your body feel funny with the lack of gravity?
21. Do you ever go on a space walk just for fun?
22. Do you ever look at the earth and have an epiphany?
Please note, the amateur radio equipment on the ISS is currently in an
experimental relay mode trying to capture SuitSat audio. Please refrain
from transmissions on the SuitSat downlink.
Voice contacts with the ISS are still possible using the standard voice
uplink frequencies. Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact
can be found at
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact.
Next planned event(s):
SuitSat in orbit. Downlink on 145.99 MHz (Note: Extremely weak signals
but operating)
E.L. DeGolyer Elementary, Dallas, TX, USA, Tue 2006-02-07 16:32
Pine Ridge Middle School, Naples, FL, USA, Wed 2006-02-08 15:24 (Please
see link below)
Cosmos Centre Charleville, Charleville, Australia, Fri 2006-02-17 07:34
Engineer Week- National Building Museum in Washington, DC Sat 2006-02-18
16:04
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
See also:
• Chelmsford
Radio Amateur helps set-up Florida school ISS contact
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