ARISS Event - Engineer's week

An International Space Station Expedition 12 ARISS school contact has been planned with individuals at Engineer's Week/Discover Engineering Family Day, Washington, DC USA on Saturday, 18 February 2006. The event is scheduled to
begin at approximately 16:04 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and WH6PN. The contact should be audible to anyone in the Hawaiian Islands. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options aril listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

IRLP - Connect to the IRLP reflector 9010.
You may also connect via the IRLP Discovery website at
http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/listen.htm.

EchoLink - Please give the JK1ZRW server your preference over the AMSAT server for your connection. (This will keep the load light on the AMSAT server, assuring us of better audio quality all around.)

AUDIO STREAMING AND AUDIO REPLAY PARTICIPANT INFORMATION:

To join the event:
URL: https://e-meetings.mci.com
CONFERENCE NUMBER: 1642601
PASSCODE: SPACE STATIO

To access the Audio Replay of this call, all parties can:
1. Go to the URL listed above.
2. Choose Audio Streaming under Join Events.
3. Enter the conference number and passcode. (Note that if this is a
recurring event, multiple dates may be listed.)
Replays are available for 30 days after the live event.

The annual Washington DC Engineering Family Day is enjoyed by thousands of visitors to the National Building Museum every February. Last year over 7000 participated.

The 2006 festival will be Saturday February 18, 2006, 10
AM to 4:30 PM, featuring activities and characters from the popular TV show Cyberchase (SM). The impressive main hall of the National Building Museum is taken over by thousands of children of all ages experiencing the excitement of engineering.

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

1) What is the most weirdest thing about living in space?
2) What is it like to cry in space?
3) Do you float around all day? And, do you have orange spacesuits?
4) What do you do for exercise while in space?
5) If the air is thinner in space, do viruses pass from one astronaut to another less quickly than they would on Earth?
6) How much fuel do you need to blast off?
7) What is the fuel you use to blast off made of?
8) What experiments are you doing on the International Space Station and have you learned anything really cool?
9) When you saw the SuitSat floating in space, what thoughts did you have?
10) Does your foot fall asleep in space?
11) Is engineering in space different than engineering on Earth?
12) I understand you are an engineer. What is it like to be an engineer?
13) Do you get headaches in space?
14) Why did you become an astronaut?
15) What is it like to sneeze in space?
16) When you sneeze in space do your ears pop?

Please note, the amateur radio equipment on the ISS is currently not rebroadcasting packet to avoid interference with 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)
Itaki Elementary School Fathers' Club (Oyajinokai), Japan, Mon 2006-02-20 11:48 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

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