AnInternational Space Station school contact has been planned withparticipants at AirdrieSpace Science Club, Airdrie, AB, Canada on15May.The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:10UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10minutes before this time. The duration of the contact isapproximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be aMulti-Point Telebridge between NA1SS and ZS6JON.Amulti-point telebridge contact means that each student will be on thetelebridge from their own home. Thecontact should be audible over portionsof South Africa and adjacent areas.Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHzdownlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English. Theevent will be live streamed at https://youtu.be/2mflSlShPHA%C2%A0.

Story:

Forthe past 10 years, the Airdrie Space Science Club has provided youthaged 10-14 the chance to build and launch model rockets, look at theuniverse during astronomy evenings, and participate in special eventssuch as ARISS contacts, and high-altitude balloon launches.

Participantswill ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1.How has seeing Earth from its orbit affected you, in your frame ofreference

whenmoving around the ISS, or

inyour perspective of humanity as a whole?

2.What happens if you vomit in the space station? How do you clean itup?

3.How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected you while you are in space?

4.What will be your first meal when you get back to Earth?

5.What does it feel like when the rocket lifts off?

6.What does the space station smell like?

7.Was training to be astronaut harder or easier than training to be anavy seal?

8.What experiment that you've done had the most unexpected results?What was the

expectedand actual

outcomeof said experiment?

9.How successful is your 3-D printer on the station?

10.We are a model rocket building club. Did you ever build modelrockets when you

wereyoung?

11.What does microgravity feel like on your body?

12.Does the Earth look any clearer or less polluted now compared to whenyou flew

in2009 and with Canadian

ChrisHadfield in 2013?

13.Do you play any games while you are on the ISS?

14.What kind of music do you listen to?

PLEASECHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:

VisitARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on theInternational Space Station (ARISS).

Toreceive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status

Nextplanned event(s):

TBD

AboutARISS

AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperativeventure of international amateur radio societies and the spaceagencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In theUnited States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation(AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Laband National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primarygoal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduledcontacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS andstudents in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radiocontacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn aboutspace, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information,see www.ariss.org.

Thankyou & 73, David – AA4KN