ARISS News Release                                                                                                   No.   20-15

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISS Contact Scheduled for Students at College Raymond Sirot, Gueux, France

September 8, 2020—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the groupthat puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around theglobe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).

This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turnsasking their questions of ISS Commander Chris Cassidy, amateur radio call sign KF5KDR. ARISS telebridge operator Tony Hutchison, call sign VK5ZAI, will relaythe ARISS contact via his ham radio ground station in Pinks Beach, Australia.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled forSeptember 10, 2020 at 10:17 pm CEST (Gueux) (08:17 UTC, 4:17 amEDT, 3:17 am CDT, 2:17 am MDT and 1:17 am PDT).

The schoolselected for the telebridge ARISS school contact is College Raymond Sirot orRaymond Sirot Middle School (with about 600 students ages 11 to 15) in thesmall town of Gueux. It is a rural school located in the northeastern area ofFrance, about 100 miles northeast of Paris. The school teachesstudents a wide range of subjects including technology, physics, biology,chemistry, mathematics, and the arts.

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1. Why did you choosethis job?

2. How long did ittake to get ready for this mission?

3. What were yourfeelings when you left the Earth?

4. What was the firstthing you did when you got on board the ISS?

5. What are the mainobjectives of your mission?

6. What are the goalsof the experiments made in the ISS?

7. How are yousupplied during your mission?

8. How do you getenough water? Do you recycle it?

9. What do you do ifan astronaut gets sick on the ISS?

10. How does it feelto witness 16 sunsets and sunrises in one day and therefore, how do you makethe difference between night and day?

11. What is the mostdifficult task of daily life to achieve in weightlessness?

12. Is it difficultto wash yourself? To go to the toilet?

13. What do you dowhen you have some free time?

14. What is the mostdifficult thing you have to deal with in the ISS? Being far from your family?Fearing a technical problem? Living close to each other?

15. Do you think thathumankind will be able to colonize other planets one day?

16. Since your veryfirst mission, have you noticed any changes on the Earth?

17. What is your bestmemory in space?

18. What is yourworst memory in space?

19. Have you everbeen afraid for your life during a space mission?

20. Have you everobserved strange phenomena from the ISS?

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About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radiosocieties and the space agencies that support the International Space Station(ISS).  In the United States, sponsorsare the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio RelayLeague (ARRL), the ISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s SpaceCommunications and Navigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promoteexploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematicstopics 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 learn about space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org

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