ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.21-36

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Collège Maurice Genevoix, Couzeix, France

June7, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is thegroup that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students aroundthe globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students fromCollège Maurice Genevoix. Students willtake turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateurradio call sign KG5FYG, during the ARISS radio contact. French is thelanguage expected to be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ andmay be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that alsoencompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.

ARISS team member Jan Poppeliers, in Aartselaar,Belgium using radio call sign ON4ISS, will serve as the ARISS relay amateurradio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 7, 2021 at 3:07 pm CEST (Couzeix,France) (13:07 UTC, 9:07 am EDT, 8:07 am CDT,7:07 am MDT, 6:07 am PDT).

Collège MauriceGenevoix (699 students in grades 6 to 13) is located near the city of Limoges,in central western France.  Inpreparation of this ARISS contact, course curricula were supplemented to linkaspects of space habitation and space exploration with the existing courses.The school has partnered with members of the Amateur Radio Club of theUniversity of Limoges who have helped the students prepare (and becomelicensed) for the contact and will support them during the contact.

Viewthe livestream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at: https://live.recreasciences.com/.

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.Comment gérez-vous le stress pendant une sortie dans l'espace?

2.Pourquoi as-tu voulu être astronaute? Qu'est-ce qui t’attirait le plus?

3.Qu'est-ce que vous aimez dans votre aventure dans l'espace en particulier?

4.Avez-vous déjà rencontré de graves disfonctionnements lors d'une de vosexpéditions?

5.La préparation des missions est-elle compliquée et éprouvante?

6.Quelle est la place de la femme dans l'aventure spatiale?

7.Est-ce gênant de dormir debout dans l'ISS?

8.Quelles sont les expériences que vous allez faire dans la Station SpatialeInternationale?

9.Comment faites-vous pour manger et boire?

10.Qu’est-ce que ça fait de partir dans l'espace pendant longtemps?

11.Quelles sensations ressens-tu au niveau du décollage et dans l'espace?

12.Est-ce facile de s'adapter à l'apesanteur?

13.Est-ce que la pratique du judo vous a aidé dans la préparation de la 1èremission?

l4.Comment fait-on à manger dans l’espace? À quelles nourritures avez vous droit?

15.Sous quelle forme est conditionnée la nourriture?

16.Quand vous êtes allé pour la première fois dans l'espace, aviez-vous eu levertige, quels étaient vos sensations/vos sentiments?

17.J'imagine que cela n'a pas été facile de s’entraîner chaque jour sans relâche,est-ce que vous aviez déjà eu envie d'arrêter?

18.Est ce que ton goût est-il affecté par l'apesanteur?

l9.Pouvez-vous respirer sans casque dans une fusée?

20.Est-ce que la terre ferme vous manque?

21.Comment fais-tu pour revenir sur terre?

22.Combien de temps allez-vous passer dans l'espace?

23.Comment faites vous pour manger et boire?

Translation

1.How do you deal with stress during a spacewalk?

2.Why did you want to be an astronaut? What attracted you the most?

3.What do you like about your adventure in space in particular?

4.Have you ever encountered serious malfunctions during one of your expeditions?

5.Is the preparation of missions complicated and stressful?

6.What is the place of women in the space adventure?

7.Is it embarrassing to sleep standing up in the ISS?

8.What are the experiments you are going to do in the International SpaceStation?

9.How do you eat and drink?

10.How does it feel to be in space for a long time?

11.What sensations do you feel during take-off and in space?

12.Is it easy to adapt to weightlessness?

13.Did the practice of Judo help you in the preparation of the 1st mission?

l4.How do you eat in space? What foods are you entitled to?

15.How is the food packaged?

16.When you first went to space, were you dizzy? What were your sensations /feelings?

17.I guess it wasn't easy to train tirelessly every day: have you ever wanted togive up?

18.Is your taste affected by weightlessness?

l9.Can you breathe without a helmet in a rocket?

20.Do you miss dry land (the earth)?

21.How do you get back to earth?

22.How long will you spend in space?

23.How do you eat and drink?

ARISS– Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur Radio Continuous Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture ofinternational amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support theInternational Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL),the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space communicationsand Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration ofscience, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS doesthis by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew membersaboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students,educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-on learning activitiestied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, seewww.ariss.org

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