ARISS News Release                                                                                              No.  20-23

Dave Jordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact Scheduled for Students at ScuolaSecondaria di I grado

“Anna Frank”, Pistoia, Italy

December 2, 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 Victor Glover, amateur radio call sign KI5BKC. The ARISS teamin Casale Monferrato, Italy will use call sign IK1SLD to serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio ground station. English is the language that will beused for this contact. Thedownlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz.

The ARISS radio contact isscheduled for December 4, 2020 at 1:25 pm CET in Pistoia (12:25 UTC, 7:25 am EST, 6:25am CST, 5:25 am MST and 4:25 am PST).

Scuola Secondariadi I grado (Anna Frank School) is a public middle school (junior highschool) in Pistoia, Italy. About120 students, ages 13 – 14 years, will be present during the contact, with 20students asking the questions. Students were guided by their STEAM studies todevelop their questions for the contact, and afterwards, to better understand theastronaut’s answers; they will apply the topics in experimental analogies intheir science laboratory classes. Anna Frank school has two science laboratories: one dedicated to chemistry and physics, andanother dedicated to biology and anatomy.

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Astime allows, students will ask these questions:

1. How do you sleepin space?

2. Is it possible togrow a plant on the ISS?

3. How long does ittake to get to the Space Station?

4. When you are onthe Space Station, do you ever wish to go back home?

5. How fast is thespace station going?

6. What is theinternal temperature of the ISS?

7. How is the feelingof moving from terrestrial gravity to space gravity?

8. Which are theactions to be performed in case of emergency?

9. What are thestrangest sensations you feel when you return to Earth?

10. If you couldbring a loved one on the Space Station, who will you bring with you?

11. How do you feelwhen you take spacewalks? Are you afraid or is it a beautiful feeling?

12. Do you have amedical kit and a physician on board the ISS?

13. What is thetraining astronauts like? Is it hard?

14. Is the food inspace all lyophilized, or is there something in liquid state, apart fromdrinks?

15. What are the mostdifficult and which are the most exciting parts of your jobs?

16. How do you seeARISS and the amateur radio on board the ISS?

17. How many hours doyou work a day and what are you experiencing and studying now?

18. Has the food agood flavor after you add water on it?

19. Have you had anytechnical problems? Which types are the most frequent?

20. Which is theoldest module of the ISS?

ARISS – Celebrating 20 Years of Amateur RadioContinuous Operations on the ISS

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the InternationalSpace Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societiesand the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS).  In the United States, sponsors are the RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), theISS National Lab-Space Station Explorers, and NASA’s Space Communications andNavigation program. The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration ofscience, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics byorganizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard theISS and students. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators,parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateurradio. For more information, see www.ariss.org

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