An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, CA on 03 July. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:54 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and K6TZ. The contact should be audible over the state of California 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.

The Santa Barbara Public Library's mission is to provide information services, reading materials, and educational resources to the greater Santa Barbara community. The Library provides STEM programs and a wide range of maker programs year round. The Library enriches lives by creating equitable opportunities for learning both at our libraries and outside our walls in locations throughout the community. All of the Library's services are free of charge. Every summer, the Santa Barbara Public Library holds a Summer Reading and Learning Program for readers of all ages, which especially targets school age children to help prevent summer learning loss. This year, the theme of the program space exploration, and includes a series of STEAM programs related to astronomy, physics, radio communication, and other space related topics, in preparation for an ARISS (Amateur Radio International Space Station) contact taking place the first week of July. STEAM programs this summer include the following:

Cook up a Comet - What are comets, and how do they form? Kids can learn about these astrological phenomenon and create their own.

What is Amateur Radio? - Learn more about how our radio Space Station contact works by connecting with Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club (SBARC), the group that is making contact with the ISS possible.

Little Bits ISS and Mars Rover - Learn about radio communication on the International Space Station or satellite communication with the Mars Rover by building your own model with Little Bits circuits.

Robotics Camp - Build and code your own space rover using Hummingbird Robotics in this week long camp.

Summer Space Camp - This will be a week-long camp where we'll focus on engineering, space, aeronautics, and the space station. Activities will include Wonderbots retrieving space samples, building and launching rockets, and astronaut boot camp.

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

1. What's the most interesting thing that you have seen while you were

on the space station?

2. Are there any planets that you've found that we could live on?

3. How do you take a shower?

4. Are pets and/or animals allowed on the ISS?

5. How do you survive and eat on the space station?

6. What does it feel like to be in space or the ISS?

7. What is it like to be weightless and float in space?

8. Has the ISS been hit by space debris?

9. What does Earth look like from very far up?

10. What do you do in your life on Earth that you cannot do in space?

11. At your current orbit, do you have sunrise and sunset and how many

hours of daylight do you have?

12. If the ISS was rebuilt what would you do differently and should

another be built?

13. Living in space or anywhere else other than on earth is very

dangerous. Why not just send robots?

14. Can you get sick while in space?

15. Do radio waves travel slower in space?

16. How do Astronauts use the restroom at the space station or when

traveling to the space station?

17. How do you repair the space station?

18. Why do you eat Jello on Mondays?

19. What experiments do you do? Are you doing any research in space

that was your idea?

20. What do you do with your waste? Is there compost?

21. How many "pounds of thrust" are required to launch the rocket that

boosts the space station into space and what does it feel like?

22. How many years does it take and what tests do you have to pass to

become an astronaut?

23. Do you see space vehicles from other countries during your

observations?

24. What was it like when you found out you actually get to go to the

space station?

PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:

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Next planned event(s):

TBD

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

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