An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Aranzadi Ikastola, Bergara, Spain on 17 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:51 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 VK6MJ. The contact should be audible over portions of Australia 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.

Bergara, with its 15000 inhabitants, is in the Basque Country, an autonomous community of Spain. It has been very important in Science throughout history, since the chemical element Wolfram was first isolated in a laboratory here, in 1783. Also, until the end of the XXth century, Bergara has been the most important producer on fabric, including jeans such as Levis or Lee. Our school is here.

Aranzadi School is formed by 452 families, 746 students and 69 professionals, with the collaboration of other people. Families can start being part of our school when the child is four months old and they can continue being members until the student finishes secondary school or high school.

The school was set up by some parents of our town, in the year 1971 because they wanted a school that would be Basque and innovative. We are a cooperative whose access is public. We have followed that attitude for 47 years.

Our school has been pioneer in the use of languages: it was the first school teaching English to 4 years old children. Pioneer in many things, we are working really hard for our school to be one of the best.

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

1. Were you scared when you travelled to the Space Station? How long is it?

2. Do you dream when you sleep?

3. Do watches work in the same way in the space and in the Earth?

4. What is, in your opinion, the most complicated task of an astronaut?

5. Do you think the Earth will be as beautiful in the future?

6. How do you know when you have to have lunch, or dinner or go to sleep?

7. How do you feel when you leave the Space Station in order to make

reparations or to go for a walk?

8. Is the space the way you imagined it as a child?

9. What do you feel when you drink water? How do you drink it?

10. What do you feel when you wake up and you see the Earth so far away?

11. Do you think that maybe one day humans will live on the Moon or in Mars?

12. Is cosmic radiation disturbing when your eyes are closed?

13. What games do you play when you are there?

14. When you look from the Spacial Station, what colour is the Earth?

15. What do you feel when you are in the space?

16. What do you miss when you are in space?

17. Is the food you eat tasty? How is it like?

18. What do you do when you are sick? Do you take something special?

19. What did you feel the first time without gravity?

20. Was it difficult to get used to sleeping hanging?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Curtin Primary School, Canberra, Australia, telebridge via K6DUE

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Nick Hague KG5TMV

Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-20 08:39:42 UTC

2. 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). ARISS in the US is funded in part by 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 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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