ARISS News Release No.21-35
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at
The Father's House Christian School (Home Education Provider: Roots), Morinville, Alberta, Canada
May 31, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).
This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students from The Father's House Christian School. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, amateur radio call sign KE5DNI. English is the language that will be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners who are within the ISS footprint that also encompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.
ARISS team member Shane Lynd, using call sign VK4KHZ from an amateur radio club station in Glenden, Queensland, Australia will serve as the relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 2, 2021 at 8:28:53 am MDT (Morinville, Alberta, Canada) (14:28:53 UTC, 10:28:53 am EDT, 9:28:53 am CDT, 7:28:53 am PDT).
The Father's House Christian School is a Home Education Provider (Roots). Roots has 257 families, 550 students and 14 facilitators in its homeschooling program. In preparation for the ARISS contact, students and parents were involved in activities / discussions about space travel and living on the ISS. Students also built a model of the ISS using recycled materials. Home-school teaching material sources included studies on space exploration, life on the ISS and primary science topics, drawn from the websites: European Space Agency (Space and Exploration), NASA (ISS KidZone), and Primary Science Teacher College.
View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://youtu.be/S0_-QFkXdi4 .
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
1. How do you sleep when there is no gravity?
2. What do you eat in space, and how do you bring the food to space?
3. How do you not crash into space debris?
4. Is it hard to learn how to walk again on earth after being in the space station?
5. What is the Canadarm used for?
6. How does a candle react when it is lit in space in a zero gravity and oxygen supplied environment?
7. Why is going to Mars a one-way trip for humans?
8. I am interested in Astrophotography. I recently saw a picture that Chris Cassidy captured of Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020. Can you manually control the exterior cameras or are they are in a fixed position?
9. How long do you stay up in the ISS at a time?
10. Would a body decompose in space and if so, how long would it take?
11. What does it feel like to float in space?
12. How fast do you go? How many times do you orbit earth each day?
13. What happens if your radio breaks and you can't talk to earth?
14. What are some experiments you are working on?
15. How do you know where to land when you leave space and come back to earth?
16. Do you do anything special on birthdays and holidays in space?
17. What did it feel like looking back at earth the first time you saw it from space?
18. What does launching from earth feel like?
19. Is there anything flammable on the International Space Station, and if there is, what do you do if there is a fire?
20. Does hair grow faster or slower in space?
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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-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org
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