An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium, Stockholm, Sweden

on 22 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:53 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 west 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.

A short history of Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium: In 1993 two mothers living in Djursholm were concerned about the education of their children. They felt the public school in the area did not meet the standards they wanted. Louise Ankarcrona and Louise Westerberg were business women and decided to create a private school that would raise academic standards in Djursholm. The opened Viktor Rydberg Gymnasium, Djursholm in 1994.The school became very popular and in 1998 they opened another school located at Odenplan, in the heart of Stockhom. This school also became very popular, having a focus on the sciences. Louise and Louise were please with both school, but also wanted to focus on aesthetic arts, and so in 2003 they started a third school at Jarlaplan. Today all three schools are thriving and have become three of Stockholm's most sought after gymnasiums.

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

1. How is the ARAMIS-experiment going to be put into action? Explain how it

would work.

2. Has the AMS-02 given any results about antimatter? Has the increase of

sensitivity (from 10^-6 to 10^-9) given better results?

3. How could space engineering affect our planet and the environment?

4. Did you yield any significant results from the NICER project?

5. There is a lot of talk about creating a community on Mars and sending

people to live there. Do you, as someone who has lived in space for a

time, see this as something that is possible to achieve?

6. Based on the At Home In Space mission, how would you describe the sense of

community at the ISS?

7. When you're going through the selection process, hoping to be chosen to

train as an astronaut, would you admit to being afraid of anything, or

would that seem not very astronaut-like?

8. How do you manage to stay in space for such long periods at a time? Is it

physically and/or mentally challenging?

9. What experiments are you conducting in the Cold Atom Lab at the moment?

10. What is your goal of being an astronaut? Is it to explore new planets,

contribute to science or being a part of a great adventure?

11. Which space movie made here on Earth is the most realistic?

12. Are there any space traditions?

13. What do you miss most from space when you are back on Earth?

14. What is the Earth activity that you miss the most when you're in space?

15. What made you decide being on the ISS was what you wanted to do?

16. What is your work when you're not in space?

17. What would you do if someone got severely sick?

18. How does the architecture on the ISS affect you? Why is everything white?

19. How do you navigate in the space station?

20. If you have long hair, do you have to cut it before going on the ISS?

21. How do you maintain contact with your family while on board the ISS?

22. Does the space station stay in orbit forever or does it get pulled towards earth?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Janusz Kusocinski Primary School No. 71, Poznan, Poland, telebridge

via W6SRJ. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Ricky Arnold KE5DAU

Contact is a go for: Wed 2018-05-23 11:06 UTC

Watch for live stream at https://ariss.pzk.org.pl/live/

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 Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) 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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