ARISS News Release                                                                                               No.24-04

DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Ömer Cemile Güler Imam Hatip Secondary School, Selçuklu, Konya,Turkey

January 29,2024—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has receivedschedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an Axiom Mission(Ax-3) astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and students at Ömer Cemile Güler Imam Hatip SecondarySchool, Konya, Selçuklu, Türkiye. ARISS conducts 60 - 100 of these special amateur radio contacts eachyear between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licensesaboard the ISS.

This will be a telebridge contact via Amateur Radio allowingstudents to ask their questions of astronaut Alper Gezeravci, amateur radiocall sign KJ5DIY/TA5TRU. As a fighter pilot with the Turkish Air Force,Gezeravcı has 15 years of flying experience on multiple aircrafts including theT-41, SF-260, T-37, T-38, F-5, KC-135 and F-16. In addition, he served as acaptain with the Turkish Airlines for seven years. Gezeravcı has also served asa flight leader, flight safety officer, and commercial airlines captain. He isnow serving as a mission specialist for Axiom Space’s Ax-3 mission to the ISS on theSpaceX Dragon.

Born in Silifke, Türkiye, Gezeravci is honored to be apart of the Ax-3 mission as the first Turkish astronaut to go to space.Through the Ax-3 mission, Gezeravcı hopes to inspire the next generation ofexplorers and ignite a passion for STEM education in teachers and studentsworldwide to each pursue their ambitions. The downlink frequency for this contact is145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprintthat also encompasses the telebridge station.

The ARISS amateur radio ground station (telebridge station)for this contact is in Glenden, Australia. The amateur radio volunteer team atthe ground station will use the call sign VK4KHZ, to establish and maintain theISS connection.

The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for January 30, 2024 at 16:38:20 pm EEST (Turkey) (13:38:20UTC, 8:38 am EST, 7:38 am CST, 6:38 am MST,5:38 am PST).

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As time allows,students will ask these questions:

1. How does it feelto look to the International Space Station from the Dragon spacecraft whileapproaching to dock?

2. Are you going tohave some adaptation period after landing to Earth since you are exposed to microgravityfor 14 days in International Space Station?

3. Besides yourself,which countries' astronauts are currently active on the International SpaceStation? Can you communicate with them?

4. What is the mealyou miss the most while you're there?

5. How is life on theInternational Space Station, and how do your days pass? What do you do to spendyour time?

6. Although it hasn'tbeen a very long time, you are now farther from Earth than ever before. What isthe thing you missed the most there?

7. When you look fromthe windows, do you see any other satellite?

8. Were you able tosee Moon from the International Space Station?

9. How is the aircondition in ISS? Is it cold or hot?

10. How was thedocking process to the International Space Station? Were you excited?

11. Which experimentdid you enjoy most?

12. How much time doyou sleep?

13. Do you wish to beback to International Space Station one more time?

14. What kind ofbenefits the experiments that you made there provide us?

15. What kind offoods do you eat in International Space Station?

16. How does it feelto look Earth from Space?

17. Would you like toset foot in another planet on the universe as an astronaut?

18. What was the mostchallenging part of the mission until docking?

19. Do you feel thehigh orbital speed of International Space Station which is approximately 7km/s?

20. Have you everlooked to the Türkiye from ISS? If yes, how does it feel?

About Axiom Mission 3:

As the first all-European commercial astronaut mission tothe ISS, Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) redefines the pathway to low-Earth orbit fornations around the globe. This mission marks a new era of opportunity forcountries to join the international space community and access low-Earth orbitto advance exploration and research in microgravity.

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) isa cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the spaceagencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the UnitedStates, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur RadioDigital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT),NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN) and the ISS NationalLab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS is to promoteexploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematicstopics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radiobetween crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before and during these radiocontacts, students, educators, parents, and communities take part in hands-onlearning activities tied to space, space technologies, and amateur radio. Formore information, see http://www.ariss.org

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