An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Kyoto Tachibana Junior & Senior High School, Kyoto, Japan on 08 Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:36 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and 8N3KT. The contact should be audible over the country of Japan 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.

It is Kyoto Tachibana junior & senior high school opened to the "Fushimi Kyoto". The 115th anniversary of foundation was celebrated two years ago. We have about 1100 students. We have many activities and experience to realize "Independent and Community Life".

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

1. When is the most exciting time in space?

2. What does space smell like?

3. What impressed you most in space?

4. When did you start to think you wanted to go to space?

5. There are a lot of unmanned satellite in space, but why don't you

hit them?

6. Have you ever seen the UFO?

7. Which tastes better, the food we usually eat on earth, or space

food?

8. How many personal items are astronauts allowed to take into space?

9. How would you describe the space in one word?

10. Please tell me about the differences in temperature between sun lit

and shaded areas outside of the space station?

11. What would you do if you encountered aliens?

12. Where would you prefer to live, in space or on the earth, if you

were to live in one place for your entire life?

13. What is the best thing about being an astronaut?

14. When you see the earth from space, is there any difference between

day and night?

15. Do you believe in aliens?

16. What is the thing you want to do the most after you get back to the

earth?

17. What made you want to be an astronaut?

18. Can you take away your stress get your energy back after you sleep

in space?

19. What is earth like when it is night in Japan?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Loreto College, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, telebridge via IK1SLD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP

Contact is go for: Thu 2019-08-15 09:17:06 UTC

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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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