An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Collège Mathilde Marthe Faucher, Allassac, France on 04 Jan. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:16 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between FX0ISS and F1IMF. 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.

Allassac is a French town in the corrèze department, in the new Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes aera. There are 3.869 inhabitants. It is 20 kilometers north of Brive-la-gaillarde and 200 km north of Toulouse.

The Mathilde Marthe FAUCHER public middle school currently hosts 400 of students in 16 classes. It is the students of 6th graduate participating in the ARISS project.

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

1. Doit-on avoir la citoyenneté française pour devenir spationaute français?

2. Préférez-vous être chez vous ou dans l'espace?

3. Est-il important de savoir nager pour devenir spationaute?

4. De combien de centimètres avez-vous grandi depuis que vous êtes dans la

station?

5. A quelle fréquence les spationautes mènent-ils des expériences

scientifiques à bord de l'lSS?

6. Est-il physiquement possible de pleurer en apesanteur?

7. Quelle est la plus belle chose que vous avez-vu dans l'espace?

8. Comment lavez-vous vos vêtements?

9. Quel est le danger que vous redoutez le plus à bord de la station?

10. Les spationautes peuvent-ils entendre des impacts de météorites sur la

station?

11. Comment organisez-vous vos soirées?

12. Est-ce que les spationautes éteignent les lumières la nuit?

13. Les spationautes peuvent-ils utiliser leur téléphone mobile dans

l'espace?

l4. Comment les astronautes peuvent-ils utiliser twitter ou les réseaux

sociaux depuis l'espace?

15. Peut-on voir la pollution sur la terre depuis la station?

16. Produisez-vous beaucoup de déchets par jour?

17. Est-ce que les spationautes se sentent seuls à bord de l'lSS?

18. Quel est votre plus grand rêve?

l9. Comment l'eau parvient-elle à la station?

20. Souhaitez-vous aller sur une autre planète?

21. Quel est le fuseau horaire adopté dans l'espace?

22. Les spationautes sont-ils plus stressés lors des sorties dans l'espace?

Translated:

1. Do you need to be a French citizen to become a French spationaut?

2. Do you prefer being at home or in space?

3. Is it essential skill to know swimming to become an astronaut?

4. How many centimeters did you gain in height since you are in the Station?

5. How frequently do you run experiments in the ISS?

6. Is it physically possible to cry in micro-gravity?

7. What is the most beautiful thing you have seen in space?

8. How do you wash your clothes?

9. What is the hazard you fear the most in the station?

10. Is it possible to hear meteorite impacts on the Station ?

11. How do you spend your evenings after work?

12. Do you switch off the lights during your sleeping time?

13. Is it possible to use your mobile phone in the ISS?

l4. How could the astronauts use twitter or other social networks from

space?

15. is the earth pollution visible from the ISS?

16. Are you producing a lot of waste per day?

17. Could the astronauts feel alone onboard the ISS?

18. What is your most important dream?

l9. : How do you get water in the station?

20. Would you like to travel to another planet?

21. Which Time zone is used in space?

22. Are the spationauts particularly stressed during EVAs?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Rainbow Middle School, Rainbow City, AL, direct via K4JMC

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD

Contact is a go for: Wed 2017-01-04 17:29 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 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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