An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Curtin Primary School, Canberra, Australia

on 20 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:39 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.

Curtin Primary School is located within the Australian Parliamentary triangle of Canberra which is the capital city of Australia.

Our school of 500+ students revolves around creating opportunities for excellence for each student. Our graduates are effective learners, innovators and thinkers who are prepared for the challenges of secondary schooling and beyond. At Curtin Primary, we deliver the Australian Curriculum through contemporary teaching approaches. We provide a broad curriculum that values each learning area and dedicates time for students to learn how to learn. Our expert teachers are constantly learning from educational research and through collaborative planning and reflection. Our teachers provide individualized approaches to foster each student's academic and social development. Teachers spark each student's natural curiosity through rich inquiry learning. Our curriculum is designed to provide opportunities for students to learn about themselves, their world and ways to interact with it as effective citizens. At Curtin Primary, we believe learning is enhanced through community partnerships. We are privileged to receive ongoing support from our community and encourage our families to participate in all aspects of school life. Parents and family members support the school by sharing their personal and professional expertise with students, guiding student readers, participating in the student program and through fundraising. We also engage community organizations to provide opportunities for curriculum enrichment programs in areas of student interest, particularly those with a STEM focus. Our school community is very excited about the forthcoming ISS link up in May.Teachers have been showing live footage of the ISS and students have submitted questions to the school's ISS coordinator, Deborah Fitzgerald.

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

1. Why are you in space? What are you working on?

2. How long have you been on the space station?

3. Do you ever worry about space junk hitting the ISS?

4. Do you go outside the space station?

5. What can you see in space from the ISS?

6. What does space smell like?

7. What is the most needed object in space?

8. Does time change in space?

9. Why does it look slow when the ISS is going so fast?

10. How do you know it is lunchtime when it's always dark?

11. How do you eat without your food going everywhere?

12. Do you have to take food and water with you to the ISS?

13. What happens if there is an emergency on the ISS?

14. What happens if you get hurt or sick on the ISS?

15. Do you get sick when you come back to Earth?

16. Why did you choose to become an astronaut?

17. How long did it take you to become an astronaut?

18. What was your favourite part of your training for the ISS? Why?

19. What do you do to pass the time in space when you are not working?

20. Do you have fun in space?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko

Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 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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