An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Los Suenos, Costa Rica on 27 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:31 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time.The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and IK1SLD. The contact should be audible over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

There are two locations connected. Both belong to the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC). San Carlos is located on the most-north Costarrican área. Although is recognized as a rural area, that has developed an agricultural production during the last 80 years, now is booming with technology-based companies, receiving the nickname "Costa Rica's Silicon Valley" to San Carlos. In Cartago, the Central location of TEC, the activity is organized by TECSpace, the space engineering student group of the university, with more than 100 members, and the Space Systems Engineering Laboratory (SETEC Lab) who was in charge of the design of the first satellite of Central America, launched in 2018.

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

1. What sentiments and feelings did you have when seeing space for the first

time?

2. A journey to Mars will have to deal with multiple gravity transitions. Are

there any projects of experiments that were proposed for this matter by

space agencies?

3. How do you think the astronaut business will change with the advent of

self-funded private human spaceflight?

4. Given your background as a physician, what areas of medicine do you think

will be key to innovate and research to successfully undertake long term

deep space missions?

5. What advice would you give to young students interested on being an

astronaut or being involved in human spaceflight?

6. How will the space station influence the future plans for reaching the

moon in 2024?

7. How much time did it take you to learn to fly a jet and what did you enjoy

the most about that experience?

8. What challenging experiences did you have to face in order to become an

astronaut?

9. Given your extremely great time management skills for being able to

accomplish your 3 majors, and such other studies. What advice could you

give other people about time management skills?

10. Of the experiments that you are working on right now on the ISS, what is

your favorite? And what's it about?

11. Will your research on long distance medicine have an impact on medical

services provided to remote communities, like Canada's Inuit people?

12. Now that you have experienced living in space for several months, what

are two things you would recommend space ships have incorporated in their

design for long term space voyages?

13. Will you please come and visit us at TEC when you and your family are on

your next trip to Costa Rica?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Ufa, Russia, direct via TBD

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be RSØISS

The scheduled astronaut is Oleg Konenenko

Contact is go for: Sun 2019-05-26 15:55 UTC

Mildred Hall School, Yellowknife, NT, Canada, telebridge via ON4ISS

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS

The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI

Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 19:44:22 UTC

Walter Murray Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

via VK6MJ

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques KG5FYI

Contact is go for: Mon 2019-05-27 20:18:50 UTC

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 ISS National Lab 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 public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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