An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Australian Air League - South Australia Wing, Elizabeth, South Australia, Australia on 21 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 8:36 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and AH6NM The contact should be audible over Hawaii 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.

We have approximately 100 cadets in South Australia, approximately 25% being female. Currently we have three squadrons here in South Australia. Parafield, Gawler and Port Adelaide. Each squadron meets once a week, but also at many other times throughout the year for other reasons, such as ANZAC day, citizenship ceremonies, flying days, camps etc. There are squadrons all over Australia.

The Australian Air League is a youth organisation for boys and girls aged from 8 to 18 years which encourages an interest in aviation as a career or as a hobby for the youth of Australia.

The organisation is entirely self-funding and is staffed by volunteers who give their time to achieve its goals.

The aims and objectives of the Australian Air League include:

1. To promote and encourage the development of Aviation in the Youth of Australia

2. To promote good citizenship

3. To promote ingenuity and resourcefulness of its members

4. To develop the physical and mental abilities of its members

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

1. What was the first feeling you had when you heard you were going up to

space?

2. What happens when an astronaut gets ill?

3. Other than family, what do you miss the most?

4. Why did you decide to become an Astronaut?

5. What is the biggest challenge you have gone through on the ISS?

6. When you get back to Earth, how long does it take to recover?

7. What jobs do you do in space?

8. What is the weirdest physical effect you have experienced?

9. Do you see satellites going past the ISS?

10. What do you do to stop contagious diseases in space?

11. What are the best experiences you have had in space?

12. What made you interested in space?

13. What do stars look like from the ISS?

14. Why do you like your job?

15. How do you get back to Earth in an emergency?

16. How do you communicate if the radio fails?

17. How can you tell what's happening in countries around the world?

18. How does it feel to float around; does it make you feel sick or happy?

19. Do you run a tight schedule; do you get free time?

20. How do you want to be remembered?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Exploration Place, Wichita, KS, direct via WØSOE

Fri, 28Feb2014, 16:24 UTC

2. Musashino Elementary School of Hamura-shi, Hamura, Japan, direct via

8N1MA

Sat, 01Mar2014, 08:14 UTC

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/ (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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