An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Gulf English School, Kuwait City, Kuwait and Language High School "Geo Milev", Dobrich, Bulgaria on 04 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:56 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and K6DUE. The contact should be audible over portions of the eastern U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
Gulf English School
The Gulf English School (GES) in Salmiya, Kuwait has approximately 2100 pupils throughout both the Primary and Secondary sections of the school. Students start school at the age of 5 years in the Primary section of the school and progress to the Secondary section when they reach the age of 11 years. Students typically graduate from the Secondary section of the school at age 16/17 and proceed to Higher Education. GES follows the England/Wales curriculum as part of its educational structure and students achieve IGCSEs and Advanced Levels in a wide variety of subjects prior to leaving the school. Students who successfully graduate from GES often proceed to Higher Education at Universities around the Middle East, in Canada, USA, UK as well as other parts of the globe. STEM topics are very popular at the school and GES places a suitable emphasis on achievement in these key areas.
Kuwait has been involved in ARISS links before - through the National Science Centre. However, this will be the FIRST school which has strived to make contact with the International Space Station.
Language High School "Geo Milev"
Geo Milev language High School is a language school in the town of Dbrich - North East of Bulgaria.
The school was established in 1971 as a specialized school for studying German. Later two other languages are taught - English and French.
We have about 900 students age from 13 to 19. Our students are interested not only in studying languages but also in many different subjects. A lot of them have won national and international competitions in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. A great number of our students continue their studies in different European and other countries.
During the years our school has proved to be the best school in town and enrolls the best and most talented young people in town.
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. What are the most important activities you do every day?
2. Have you watched the world cup and as a whole have you got time for
activities like watching television or playing computer games?
3. Does food taste the same in space?
4. Is it possible in case of fire to empty the oxygen from the premises
until the fire is put out and then filled back in?
5. What are you investigating on the space station right now?
6. What kind of experiments do you carry out?
7. What is the most important piece of equipment on the space station?
8. What would be the first thing you will do if you encounter an alien?
9. How do you treat injured people?
10. Has a meteorite passed close to the station?
11. What do you do for fun?
12. When will people land on Mars?
13. Do you feel pressure in your ears when you travel to the space station?
14. How do you keep in touch with your families?
15. During a mission, is it possible to lose vitamin D and become ill?
16. What effort is it for you to maintain such big equipment and how do you
maintain contact with Earth?
17. Why did you want to be an astronaut?
18. How does this kind of work affect you ( the smallest mistake could cause
serious damages)?
19. When you look out of the window, do you see things which we cannot see
from Earth?
20. What kind of physical exercises do you do to keep fit?
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Next planned event(s):
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ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA.
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Thank you & 73,
David - AA4KN
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