ARISS News Release                                                                                                    No.23-57

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

A. L. Burruss Elementary School, Marietta, Georgia,USA

October21, 2023 — Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) hasreceived schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboardthe International Space Station (ISS) and students at the A. L. BurrussElementary School in Marietta, GA.  ARISSconducts 60-80 of these special amateur radio contacts each year betweenstudents around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard theISS.

A.L. Burruss Elementary School is an International Baccalaureate(IB) Primary Years Program World School and National School of Excellenceserving K-5 students.  The school’scurriculum includes relevant STEM topics across all grade levels anddisciplines.

Burruss students have been busy preparing for this event bystudying concepts related to outer space, radio waves, communication, and theInternational Space Station. In the Learning Garden and Stem Labs, they havebeen participating in the Tomatosphere™ project to study tomato seeds that havebeen exposed to space or space-simulated environments in comparison to seedwith no exposure. In the media center, the students have been tracking andmonitoring the location of the ISS using a Geochron monitor. In September, arepresentative from GOT Space and the Georgia Space Grant Consortium assisted studentsin using a VR headset to “tour” the ISS to learn more about it and, just beforethe scheduled contact, they will participate in the Amateur Radio School ClubRound Up to get hands-on experience with amateur radio before the contact.Membersof the North Fulton Amateur Radio League (NFARL) are supporting the school’s curriculumand assisting with the technical aspects involved in facilitating this ARISSradio contact.

This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio and students will take turns asking their questionsof Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, amateur radio call sign KI5WSL. The downlinkfrequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard by listeners thatare within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station.

The amateur radio ground station for this contactis in Marietta, GA. Amateur radio operators using call sign K4RGK, will operatethe ground station to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

TheARISS radio contact is scheduled for October 24, 2023 at 12:14:50 pm EDT (GA) (16:14:50UTC, 11:14 am CDT, 10:14 am MDT, 9:14 am PDT).

Thepublic is invited to watch the live stream at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCuI4sKDBpERtEFs9bFrRMFA/live

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1.How do you brush your teeth and take showers in space?

2.How do you stay in touch with your family?

3.Do you have internet or TV in space so that you can contact people, find outthe news, or watch live sports?

4.Can you see the solar system?

5.Did you see anything during the recent solar eclipse? Could you tell it washappening?

6.Why did you decide to go into space and how did you get selected for the ISS?Did you dream of it when you were a kid?

7.What do you do all day? Do you have free time and what do you do forentertainment or for exercise?

8.How do you drink water if there is no gravity?

9.How do you get more food or supplies when you run out?

10.Is the food good and what is your favorite meal?

11.How do you know if it is day or night?

12.How do you get to and from the ISS? How long does it take? What is that travellike?

13.What did you think when Astronaut Frank Rubio and the cosmonauts had to staythere when the Soyuz MS22 was damaged? Did it cause problems to have extrapeople there?

14.Can you catch germs in space and what happens if someone gets sick up there?

15.How do you sleep in zero gravity? Do you lie down or stand up or just float?

16.Do you go outside of the space station and if you do how do you stay connected?

17.What do you see from up there and what is your favorite thing to see?

18.What is the first thing you will do when you get back home?

19.Do you have to do any math?

20.Is it scary up there?

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, sponsors are the American Radio Relay League(ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), Radio Amateur SatelliteCorporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation program (SCaN)and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. The primary goal of ARISS isto promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, the arts, andmathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizing scheduled contacts viaamateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students. Before andduring these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities takepart in hands-on learning activities tied to space, space technologies, andamateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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