The International Space Station

ARISS contact planned with Delta Researchers Schools, Netherlands

On Friday, 23 May 2008 an ARISS School Contact is planned with Delta Researchers Schools at Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

The contact will be a telebridge between Garrett Reisman, KE4HAE and ground station WH6PN in Honolulu.

The contact will start at approximately 14:00 UTC, which is 16:00 local time.

As many of the following questions will be asked as time allows:

1. Tim. If you are in space for a long time and you can't take a shower or open a window, does the space station start to smell bad?
2. Bart. What happens with steam from boiled water in space?
3. Tara. Where do you get water from?
4. Inge. I have braces because my teeth are crooked. I have to wear them for nearly one year. If you had braces in space, would they straighten your teeth faster?
5. Thije. Is your voice different in space?

Garret Reisman, KE5HAE

6. Ellen. What do you do if a fire breaks out in the space station?
7. Isa. What do you have to do to stay strong?
8. Tess. If an astronaut becomes seriously ill in space, what happens?
9. Erik. Do magnets work in space?
10. Marijn. What do you eat in space, what is your favourite food and how do you eat?

11. Nick. What is the temperature outside the space station like?
12. Mike. Has it always been your dream to become an astronaut?
13. Inge. When orbiting the earth, you can see where it is day and night. Do you notice a difference between day and night on the space station? To which time on earth does a clock on the space station correspond?
14. Thije. Does the sun shine more strongly in space and do the stars look different from the space station?
15. Bine. Do you notice that you are moving very fast on board the space station? And during a space walk, do you notice it then?

16. Josien. Do things grow faster in space than on earth? (e.g. children, plants, hair, nails?).
17. Ellen. Can you see atmospheric pollution and the hole in the ozone layer from space?
18. Mike. Do you miss your family very much?

The audio for this event will be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers.

Please note that there are automatic breaks in the EchoLink audio transmission every 2.5 minutes during the event and while we listen to preparations going on for this contact. Each audio break is approximately 1 second long. Please configure your systems to not time out during times of inactivity or ongoing audio transmissions.

This ARISS event will possibly be broadcast through the IRLP "Discovery" Reflector 9010 on the Internet.

It is then available via the "Discovery" Reflectors companion web site www.discoveryreflector.ca . Once on its main page, select "Live Streaming Audio" (left side bar) and follow the prompts.

More directly the URL is as follows: www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls

The audio on the Internet is typically delayed by about two minutes.

73

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

www.ariss-eu.org