An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Agrupamento de Escolas Serafim Leite, São João da Madeira, Portugal on 27 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:33 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and CS2ASL. The contact should be audible over Portugal 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.

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The Serafim Leite Schools is located in the north of Portugal in the city of São João da madeira. It was born in 1957, and during this 60 years of existence it has been growing.

It started by being a school with only the grammar and today has all levels of education:

First cycle, Second cycle, Third cycle and Secondary.

Currently it has more than 1200 students and 110 teachers that are distributed in three buildings that make up the Serafim Leite schools cluster. Its identity is closely linked to vocational education that is a national reference in vocational education. The training offer includes Electronics, Computer, Mechanical, Audiovisual, Markting, Science and Technology, Socioeconomic Sciences, Visual Arts and recurrent adult education. It is a school where children arrive still small in their parents' arms and leave the school like men and women who are already graduated with a high degree of knowledge. It is in this educational environment where human and social values are privileged that our students grow with the notion that humanity is urgently required to take action to reverse the global warming of the earth, making their own school an Eco-School.The astronaut could be our eyes helping us to look the Earth in another way.

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

1. What is your daily routine like on board?

2. When you have a health problem what do you do? Are there any doctors

on board?

3. When astronauts go to space for how long do they stay there?

4. Do you miss family?

5. Do you remember the very first moment that you look outside de ISS

and saw the planet earth? What did you felt and did you think of

someone special?

6. How do you bath in a ship?

7. How can you get water in space?

8. What is it like to live in the ISS?

9. What kind of experiences take place from the ISS and what are the

advantages of making them from there?

10. How is it possible to create an atmosphere within the ISS?

11. Is the perception of time on board of the ISS different from the

one you have on Earth?

12. How many hours of exercise should an astronaut do each day?

13. What effects does space flight have on the human body, and what do

you feel?

14. When you are not working what do you do?

15. Being a different profession how old did you realize you wanted to

be an astronaut?

16. What do you miss the most about Earth?

17. How can weightlessness influence the health of astronauts?

18. Tell us about your adventure in space?

19. How can you communicate with your family?

20. Do you feel scared when you are in space?

21. How and where do they sleep?

22. How long do astronauts train to perform space missions?

23. Do you have any specific food when you are on missions?

24. In an emergency situation can you all return to Earth?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Primary School "Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj", Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia,

direct via YU7BPQ

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP

Contact is go for: Tue 2020-01-28 15:51 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