An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Istituto Comprensivo Statale "Diego Valeri", Campolongo Maggiore, Italy, on 29 Apr. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:34 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and IZ3YRA. The contact should be audible over Italy 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.

The Institute is located in the province of Venice, near province of Padua. The Municipality of Campolongo Maggiore is part of the urban area of the "Riviera del Brenta" which stretches along the banks of the river Brenta, famous tourist area for the presence of numerous villas of the XVI - XVIII century. The Municipality of Campolongo Maggiore has a vast territory and the Institute Comprehensive School "Diego Valeri" consists of: a nursery school, three complexes of primary school and two middle schools with a total number of about 1000 pupils. The Institute boasts the best music workshop in Italy and almost all of the pupils are able, not only to try his hand in the study of a musical instrument and to read music but also playing in an orchestra.

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

1. What do you drink or eat in the space station?

2. What do you miss of earth?

3. How do you feel when you watch out the space station? Do you like the

landscape?

4. Why do you want travel in space?

5. Have you got a doctor? What do you do if you are ill?

6. How do you wash yourself?

7. How do you spend your free time?

8. By what means did you get in the space station?

9. When you know that you left for space, how did you feel?

10. When did you go to space for the first time?

11. How long have you been studying and training to become an astronaut?

12. How do you wash yourself and what about your physiological needs?

13. How many nationalities are there on the mission? What language do you

speak?

14. What temperatures are there out of the ISS?

15. Is moving difficulty on the ISS?

16. Which is the best thing you have seen from space?

17. Do you practice sports on the ISS?

18. Is it possible to cultivate anything on the ISS?

19. Is sleeping easy as on Earth?

20. What are you studying in this mission?

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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), and the 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 informal education venues. With the help of experienced amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a variety of public forums. Before and during these radio contacts, students, teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org.

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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