ARISS News Release                                                                                               No.24-18

DaveJordan, AA4KN

ARISS PR

aa4kn@amsat.org

FORIMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARISSContact is Scheduled with Students at

Tooele County School District, Tooele, Utah, USA

April 7, 2024—AmateurRadio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received scheduleconfirmation for an ARISS radio contact between an astronaut aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS) and students at the Tooele County SchoolDistrict located in Tooele, UT.  ARISSconducts 60-100 of these special amateur radio contacts each year betweenstudents around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses aboard theISS.

TheTooele Community Learning Center (CLC) is a rural, public education centersouth of the Great Salt Lake, Tooele County, Utah. The CLC houses four separateschool entities within Tooele County School District: Career & TechnicalEducation (grades 9-12, 500 students), Alternative High School (grades 9-12,100 students), Special Needs Adult Program (40 students), and Digital EducationCenter (grades K-12, 800 students). CLC is supported by members of the BridgerlandAmateur Radio Club, with seven of the participating students recently passingtheir amateur radio technician license tests. The West Desert Amateur RadioClub facilitates and proctors an annual Amateur Radio Technician exam at theschool and conducts Elmer sessions relevant to the exam and this ARISS contact.

This will be adirect contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask theirquestions of astronaut Matthew Dominick, amateur radio call sign KCØTOR. Thedownlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHz and may be heard bylisteners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relayground station.

The amateur radio ground station for this contact is in Tooele,Utah. Amateur radio operators using call sign W7CBL, will operate the groundstation to establish and maintain the ISS connection.

The ARISS radiocontact is scheduled for April 8, 2024 at 11:45 am MDT (UT) (17:45 UTC, 1:45 pm EDT, 12:45 pm CDT, 10:45 am PST).

The public isinvited to watch the live stream at: https://youtube.com/live/5z_zfRfwAMY?feature=share

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As time allows,students will ask these questions:

1. What was thehardest part of your training to become an astronaut?

2. What is thecoolest tool or piece of technology you use on station?

3. Whatimmediate physical effects did being in space for the first time have on you?

4. How wouldzero-g affect the flight of a paper airplane?

5. Whichdiseases or disorders are you at more risk for in space?

6. What is thestrangest thing you've seen in space?

7. What happenswhen you cry in zero-g?

8. How doeszero-g affect blood flow?

9. If you coulddesign a new module for the ISS, what would its primary purpose be?

10. Whatchallenges do you face on a daily basis that are unique to living in space?

11. What advicewould you give to students aspiring to a career in space exploration?

12. How do youdetermine who gets to pick the movies on movie night?

13. What is theprocedure if an unidentified being attempted to contact you?

14. How do youcelebrate holidays on the ISS?

15. How longdoes it take to get used to sleeping in space?

16. How oftendo you get to hear from your families?

17. What is themost exciting thing that has happened for you on this expedition?

18. I run crosscountry, and the anticipation before the race is worse for me then the actualrace. How does the anticipation of the launch differ from the actual launch?

19. What hasbeen the biggest difference between your underwater training and space?

20. What is theplan if the ISS was to suffer a station-wide power outage?

21. How doesaurora borealis look different from space?

22. How doesspace affect plant growth?

23. How do you protect yourself from the dangers of space?

24. Is there aprotocol for the ISS if a catastrophic event happens on Earth?

25. What dailyroutines are crucial to maintaining physical and mental well-being?

26. Other thanfamily and friends, what do you miss most about living on Earth?

About ARISS:

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) isa cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the spaceagencies that support the ISS. In the United States, sponsors are the AmericanRadio Relay League (ARRL), Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC), RadioAmateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), NASA’s Space Communications andNavigation program (SCaN) and the ISS National Lab—Space Station Explorers. Theprimary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,engineering, the arts, and mathematics topics. ARISS does this by organizingscheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students.Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, andcommunities take part in hands-on learning activities tied to space, spacetechnologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see http://www.ariss.org

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