ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-21

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Webb Bridge Middle School, Alpharetta, Georgia,USA

May16, 2023—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboardthe International Space Station (ISS) and students at the Webb Bridge MiddleSchool located in Alpharetta, GA.  ARISSconducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year betweenstudents around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard theISS.

Webb Bridge Middle School (WBMS) is a public school (with atotal enrollment of 1188 in grades 6 through 8) in Alpharetta, Georgia, a farnorthern suburb of Atlanta. The primary audience for the ARISS contact is their6th grade students (11 – 12 years old), who also study Geology and Spacesciences during the year. In support of this contact, WBMS has partnered with the local amateur radio organization, the North Fulton Amateur Radio League (NFARL). During the day of the contact, planned activities will center around amateur radio and space education such as a morse code station, a get on the air station, and poster presentations on satellites, orbits, and Earth’s atmosphere.

This will be a telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio and students will take turnsasking their questions of Astronaut Warren Hoburg, amateur radio call sign KB3HTZ.The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses thetelebridge station.

The ARISS amateur radio ground station(telebridge station) for this contact is in Casale Monferrato, Italy. Theamateur radio volunteer team at the station will use the callsign IK1SLD, toestablish and maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for May 19, 2023 at 2:20:31 pm EDT (GA) (18:20:31UTC, 1:20 pm CDT, 12:20 pm MDT, 11:20 am PDT).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: http://www.ariotti.com/

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.What was your first mission and how did it make you feel?

2.What was the hardest and easiest part and challenges of becoming an astronaut?

3.What is the weirdest thing you have encountered in space?

4.What is the most profound lesson you learned from your experience in space, andhow has it changed your perspective on life?

5.How major is the difference between daily life in space and earth? Would thingsin space like gravity change your daily routines?

6.If space does not have the same gravitational pull as the earth, then how doesyour body stay healthy and stable?

7.If I were to become an astronaut, what would you tell me you wish that you knewwhen you started your career?

8.What is training like?  Do a lot ofpeople quit?

9.When you've just left the atmosphere, and you can see earth and all the otherplanets from afar, what do you feel? Do you have a sense of love for theuniverse and how amazing it is?

10.Does it hurt when you go back into the Earth's atmosphere after you've gottenused to little to no gravity?

11.I have a friend that told me that astronauts faint a lot after they come backto Earth, is this true?

12.What do you do when you get bored in the spacecraft?

13.Has there ever been a moment where there was a challenging situation and youand your other astronaut friends aboard the ISS has to work together to solvethe problem?

14.What would you do if your spaceship was suddenly going down and you weren’table to control it?

15.What happens if someone drifts out to space? Are there emergency protocols or anything to do to save them?

16.If your nose is itchy on a spacewalk, what do you do?

17.As you are blasting off, what does it feel like, is it nerve racking?

18.Can you communicate with your family while you are in space? If so, how?

19.How do you set your sleep schedule?

20.How do you plan to take out the trash in space?

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS NationalLab-Space Station Explorers, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) andNASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN). The primary goal ofARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts,and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts viaamateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before andduring these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities takepart in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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