An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Collège Georges Brassens, Saint-Venant, France, Collège René Cassin de Lillers, Lillers, France, and Lycée Polyvalent Anatole France, Lillers, France on 05 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 09:58 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and TM10ISS. The contact should be audible over France and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in French with portions translated into Englsh.

Collège Georges Brassens

The village of Saint Venant is located in the Pas-de-Calais, at 40 Km west of Lille. The college Georges Brassens includes 435 pupils supervised by 32 teachers. These students are between 11 and 15 years of age. In 2015, 91% of the students obtained their diplomas, 61% of which were awarded, which enabled the college to obtain a distinction. Scientific projects are regularly conducted at the college: balloon probes, BIA project ... They allow students to develop their scientific culture and discover many trades. These projects also provide a link with the general and technological high school of Lillers where the same projects are continued.

Collège René Cassin

The city of Lillers is only 8 Km distant from St Venant. The college René-Cassin, located on the edge of the town of Lillers, is a semi-rural college. It accommodates 382 pupils from 10 to 15 years of socio-professional origins very varied from a part of the city and the neighboring villages and hamlets. The college wants to open up to its environment and offer its students the opportunity to enrich themselves through activities that will allow a cultural and scientific opening in connection with the continuity towards high school.

Lycée Polyvalent Anatole France

The Lycée Anatole France is located in the downtown of Lillers and is well known in the Pas-de-Calais department as it is regularly ranked among the first high schools of the department for his success in the baccalauréat. It accommodates 940 students from 15 years to 20 years.

Since 8 years, the secondary school participates, with the classes of second and the CSRAL, to scientific projects like the launch of a stratospheric balloon or to a parabolic flight in 2014. For 8 years, a preparation for the certificate of initiation to the Aeronautics (BIA) is open to pupils of 10th Grade. A preparation for the amateur radio licence is also proposed since this year to students of 11th Grade. All these activities allowing them to discover the universe of aviation (BIA), the effects of The zero-gravity (parabolic flight), the stratosphere and space (ISS orbital station) is to bring students back into contact with the space station. The high school will have a radioclub with a station able to make contacts via satellites.

School exchange program with Denver, Colorado:

The Lycee Anatole France is partner with the STEM High School, a semi-public school with a four-year curriculum that was founded in 2011. they are ranked eleventh in the ranking of 342 schools in Colorado. their enrollment includes 1600 high school students, with 25% ethnic diversity. Their students are selected by lottery each year. STEM provides a high-quality academic standard with an infusion of STEM (science, technology, technical education and mathematics) present in all subjects taught. they also focus on teaching business, as well as personal responsibility, teamwork and the ability to solve problems with creativity. The school is located in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, USA and have many connections with high-tech companies in the Denver area.

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

1. Vos expériences ont-elles pour but une future colonisation de l'espace?

2. Parmi les clichés pris depuis l'ISS, quelle photo préférez-vous ?

3. Est-ce que l'alternance jour/nuit plus courte a une influence sur

certaines de vos activités ou sur votre organisme ?

4. Due to the constant free fall of the ISS around the earth's orbit, do you

continue to feel the physical symptoms of the free fall, and if so, how do

you adapt to this feeling?

5. Votre alimentation a t'elle des conséquences sur votre santé?

6. Maximilien (13): De combien avez-vous grandi depuis votre départ ?

7. En raison de l'apesanteur, est ce que tu as souvent des vertiges ou la

sensation d'être désorienté ?

8. How much social interaction do you have on a given day with earth or with

other ISS astronauts?

9. Avez vous ressenti une certaine atrophie musculaire pendant votre séjour?

10. Les sensations ressenties lors de votre sortie dans l'espace et lors de

vos déplacements dans la station sont-elles les mêmes que lors des

entrainements en piscine ?

11. Qu'est ce que tu as ressenti lorsque tu as vu la terre pour la première

fois depuis l'ISS?

12. Who inspired you to become an astronaut?

13. Quels sont les êtres vivants qui ont été apportés pour vos expériences?

14. Pensez-vous repartir en mission dans l'espace?

15. Quelle est ton activité préférée à bord de l'ISS lors de ton temps libre

?

16. Do you see items entering the earth's atmosphere or burning upon

entering? What does it look like?

17. Quelles ont été vos sensations lors du décollage de la fusée Soyouz?

18: Où avez vous prévu d'atterrir ?

19: Est ce qu'il y a un endroit ou un phénomène sur terre que tu n'as pas

encore photographié et que tu souhaites avoir tout particulièrement ?

20: Sous quelle forme préférez-vous déguster vos aliments?

Translated:

1. Are your experiments aiming at a future colonization of space?

2. Among the pictures taken from the ISS, Which photos do you prefer?

3. Does the shorter day / night alternation affect some of your activities or

your organism?

4. Due to the constant free fall of the ISS around the earth's orbit, do you

continue to feel the physical symptoms of the free fall, and if so, how do

you adapt to this feeling?

5. Does Your Diet Affect Your Health?

6. How much have you grown since you left?

7. Due to weightlessness, do you often feel dizzy or feel disoriented?

8. How much social interaction do you have on a given day with earth or with

other ISS astronauts?

9. Have you experienced any muscular atrophy during your stay?

10. Are the sensations felt when you are out in space and when you are

moving in the station the same as during swimming training?

11. What did you feel when you saw the earth for the first time from the ISS?

12. Who inspired you to become an astronaut?

13. What are the living beings that have been brought in for your

experiments?

14. Do you think you will be going back to space?

15. What is your favorite activity aboard the ISS during your free time?

16. Do you see items entering the earth's atmosphere or burning upon

entering? What does it look like?

17. What were your feelings during the takeoff of the Soyuz rocket?

18: Where do you plan to land?

19: Is there a place or phenomenon on earth that you have not photographed

yet and want to have especially?

20: In what form do you prefer to taste your food?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Ecole College Park School, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, telebridge

via W6SRJ

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Jack Fisher K2FSH

Contact is a go for: Mon 2017-05-08 18:19 UTC via W6SRJ

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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