An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Morita Junior High School, Fukui, Japan on 22 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:00 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and 8J9MO. The contact should be audible over 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.

Fukui Prefecture is a Japanese administrative division and local government that faces the Sea of Japan and Wakasa Bay. The prefectural capital and the largest city is Fukui City. Morita Junior High school was established in 1947 at Fukui city. Our students are learning many knowledge of science and engineering through various experiments. The number of students is 332.

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

1. What happens when you heat water in space?

2. What does the Earth look like from space?

3. When you are in space, how much does your body weight change?

4. What is your favorite space food?

5. What is the most fun thing to do in space?

6. What do you do, when you have a toothache a disease on the ISS?

7. How far does your saliva go when you sneeze in the ISS?

8. Have you ever had a serious disease in space?

9. What is the first thing you want to do when you come back to earth?

10. When you were in junior high school, what did you want to be in the

future?

11. How big does the Earth look the ISS?

12. What is the biggest inconvenience on the ISS?

13. What experiment do you do in space?

14. What makes you the most excited in space?

15. How do you talk during outboard activities?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada, telebridge via IK1SLD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP

Contact is go for: Wed 2020-01-22 17:21 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