An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Templestowe College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
on 18 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:06 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
Teacher leading the activities: Neil Metcalfe, Physics and Mathematics teacher and life-long Apollo mission fan; being old enough to remember the moon landings and the drama of Apollo 13. My favourite astronaut is Jim Lovell (sorry to everybody else - you're all awesome)
Templestowe College (TC) is located in south-east Melbourne, Australia. It is a school of about 1100 students that is breaking new ground in education, with a major numbers of the subjects and activities being student lead. TC students do not wear uniforms and call their teachers by their first name. We have a "one voice" policy whereby teachers and students have an equal voice in how the school is run and operated. "Yes" is our default answer. We have a school farm on a suburban site and do all our own animal husbandry with students taking the leading role with teacher supervision. The ISS hook-up will be compered by the students; lead up activities including, chemical rocket launches, air/water rockets launches (with the adjoining junior school), astronaut selection tests and a space movie night will be organised and lead by the students. The hook-up will have week-long build up with cross the curriculum activities, discussions and debates being brought into most subject areas. TC was nominated and shortlisted for Australian Government School of the Year in 2019.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What is the most interesting thing you've seen in space or from
ISS??
2. How do you stay healthy and what happens if you are sick?
3. Do you have free time, if so, what do you do with it?
4. Are there any permanent effects of being in space for a long time?
5. If a family or personal emergency occurs, are you allowed to go
home?
6. What interesting experiments do you perform on the ISS?
7. What does it feel like bring back on earth after a long time in
space?
8. Are there international space laws and censorship laws that govern
people on ISS?
9. How much fuel do you use maneuvering the ISS around space debris?
10. Do astronauts ever feel isolated, and if so, how do they cope with
that?
11. How does your family feel about you being on ISS and what support
do they get?
12. What is the hardest thing you do on the ISS?
13. What kind of personal items are you allowed to bring?
14. Do you have access to medicine and/or doctors?
15. What do you do when you feel fed up or annoyed with each other?
16. What kind of training did you have to be qualified to go to the
space station?
17. What made you want to become astronaut? Was it a lifelong dream, or
did it just happen to be?
18. Are you put in isolation before going into space and coming back to
earth, if so, how long?
19. What is your daily routine on the ISS?
20. How do you cope with the stress of take-off and being away from
earth?
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Next planned event(s):
1. Boys and Girls Club, Ft. Meade, MD., telebridge via VK4KHZ
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS
The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV
Contact is go for: Fri 2019-09-20 19:58:23 UTC
2. School in Bulgaria, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Tue 2019-09-24 16:10 UTC
3. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC
4. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC
5. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS
The scheduled astronaut is TBD
Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-01 TBD UTC
About ARISS
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.
Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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