An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Sonoma County Main Library, Santa Rosa, CA

on 01 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:53 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 K6DUE. The contact should be audible over the east coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

The Sonoma County Library system serves 495,000 residents in the cities, towns, and communities of Cloverdale, Cotati, Guerneville, Healdsburg, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Sonoma and Windsor. Through library services and programs at our 14 locations, online, and through targeted outreach, we embrace our mission to bring information, ideas, and people together to build a stronger community.

To support our ARISS project, the Sonoma County Library collaborated with the Robert Ferguson Observatory (RFO) to bring two unique programs to the library. Every Saturday in September the library is hosting a Solar Viewing and Space Crafts event where RFO will provide a telescope (with special filter) allowing viewers to look directly at the sun and inside the library, kids can explore space-themed activity stations. Every Monday in September, the library is hosting the Young Astronomers Club with RFO, where kids will study the night sky, learn how to use telescopes, meet other kids who are interested in space, and receive a membership button.

In addition to these programs, the library is hosting two speaking engagements with NASA Ames Research Center scientist, Wenonah Vercoutere, Ph.D., sharing the plans NASA has for returning to the Moon. As well as ?S? is for Space Storytime at ten locations, accompanied by a space-themed reading list featuring fiction and nonfiction for grades K-8.

Lastly, to encourage countywide participation, the library is holding an art contest for grades K-9 with the prompt, ?You are looking out the window of the International Space Station, what do you see?? Every entry will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win an Orion SkyQuest XT6 Dobsonian Telescope, donated by the Active 20-30 Club of Santa Rosa and the Robert Ferguson Observatory. The winning artwork will be displayed in the Central Library?s forum room at the ARISS contact.

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

1. Were you scared the first time you went to space?

2. How long have you wanted to be an astronaut?

3. What was it like riding the rocket into space?

4. What is a typical day like on the ISS like for you?

5. When in zero gravity, do you ever get motion sickness?

6. Do you have a clock keeping time from Earth or do you have your own

time in space?

7. What happens if there is a leak in the space station?

8. What are the "dos" and "don'ts" in the space station?

9. Does being in space change you mentally? (If "yes", in what ways?)

10. Have you seen any major, visible changes on Earth from space?

11. How long have you lived in the ISS?

12. What job did you have before you went into space?

13. Do you worry about meteors or "space junk" hitting the station?

14. How intensely did you train to become an astronaut?

15. What is the strangest thing you have ever seen while in space?

16. Is it scary to see natural disasters from space?

17. What is it like to take a shower in space?

18. Why are you in space right now (what is your mission)?

19. Does time move more slowly in space?

20. What is the coolest thing you have seen or done on the ISS yet?

21. What should a student do if they want to become an astronaut?

22. What happens if someone in the ISS gets sick or needs an operation?

23. What do you eat if you want a snack between meals?

24. What is the most interesting experiment you are working on?

PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:

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Next planned event(s):

1. UAE school #1 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour

Contact was successful for Fri 2019-09-27 12:10 UTC

2. The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct

via UB3WCL.The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin

Contact iwas successful for Fri 2019-09-27 15:25 UTC

3. The Southwest State University of Kursk, Kursk, Russia, direct

via UB3WCL.The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin

Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC

4. UAE school #2 with Space Flight participant, direct via A68MBR

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour

Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 11:20 UTC

5. Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, direct via TBD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Aleksey Ovchinin

Contact is go for Sat 2019-09-28 14:35 UTC

6. UAE school #3 with Space Flight participant, direct via TBD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Hazza Al Mansour

Contact is go for Wed 2019-10-02 09:45 UTC

7. School in Russia TBD direct via TBD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is TBD

Contact is go for Tue 2019-10-08 06:05 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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