ARISS Event - Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium
An International Space Station Expedition 13 ARISS school contact has
been planned with participants at the Euro Space Center, Transinne, Belgium
on Tuesday, 13 June, 2006. The event will begin at about 13:39 UTC.
The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and W6SRJ. The
contact should be audible to anyone in the western portions of North America.
Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink.
Additional listening options are 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 - The audio from this contact will be available on the EchoLink
AMSAT (node 101 377) and the JK1ZRW
(node 277 208) conference rooms. Please connect to the JK1ZRW server to
keep the load light on the AMSAT server. This will ensure good audio quality
for all listeners.
AUDIO STREAMING AND AUDIO REPLAY PARTICIPANT INFORMATION:
To join the event:
URL: https://e-meetings.mci.com
CONFERENCE NUMBER: 8836429
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 Euro Space Center (ESC) is a residential (100 beds) Space Camp (US
license) for youngsters (8-18 old).
Each session is 5 days long. ESC is located in Belgium, near Bastogne
(see Battle of the Bulge, Christmas 1944). Youngsters from many European
countries come on Space Camp to ESC where monitors handle several languages.
ESC also hosts a permanent Space Expo and a restaurant open to visitors
as well as amateur radio club station ON4ESC.
Participants at ESC will ask as many of the following questions as time
allows:
1. How does one feel in space, psychologically speaking?
2. Did you have to face unexpected issues during launch or after docking?
3. How is a typical working day onboard the ISS? When do you get up and
how many hours do you have to work? When do you go to bed?
4. A practical question: what do you do with bodily waste?
5. What kind of studies are best suited to become an astronaut?
6. Has it ever happened that an astronaut had to leave the space station
on short notice because of illness or accident?
7. They say that a manned flight to Mars should be possible around 2020.
Do you think this is realistic?
8. Was the Indian Tsunami visible from the ISS?
9. Does the faulty electrical oxygen generator worry you? Is a replacement
being planned?
10. Is the space station a noisy environment?
11. Would the Soyuz, the Progress and the future European ATV be sufficient
to maintain a permanent crew onboard the ISS if the space shuttles failed
to fly?
12. Isn't it risky to have both crewmembers perform an EVA together while
the station is left unmanned?
13. Can you see the fumes of the Etna volcano in Sicily or other volcanoes?
14. Are meteor tracks in the atmosphere visible from the ISS like we can
observe shooting stars from earth?
15. When you look at the rising moon, does she look bigger than when she
is high in the sky, or is this an earthbound phenomenon?
16. The experiments you perform onboard will possibly benefit life on
earth. Can you give an example?
17. Is the pollution of the earth visible from the ISS?
18. Did looking at the earth from space change your vision of the world?
19. Did you experience light flashes in your eyes in the dark? What is
this like? Is this due to cosmic rays?
20. After a while, do you feel weightlessness as natural or does it remain
a strange feeling?
Please note, the amateur radio equipment on the ISS will be turned off
prior to the contact. It will be returned to regular amateur radio operations
as soon as possible afterwards. Information about the next scheduled ARISS
contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact.
Next planned event(s):
Crossband Repeater mode active on June 22 for QRP stations operating ARRL
Field Day. See ARRL web article for more details. http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/06/07/1/?nc=1
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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