An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Nippon Boy Scout Amateur Radio Club, Mitaka-shi, Japan on 04 May. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:09 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

The contact will be direct between NA1SS and JA1YSS. The contact should be audible over Japan and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in Japanese.

Souichi Noguchi was a former member of the boy scouts. Therefore, we (Amateur radio club of Japan boy scouts) recruit the member who will communicate with Noguchi using amateur radio in Tokyo area. And we selected 15 scouts. We will use the amateur radio club (JA1YSS) of headquarter (Japan Boy Scout) in Mitaka city.

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

1. Is the crop cultivation possible in the space station? 2. Are you doing anything because you do not forget the sense at a day of

the week and the date? 3. What trouble does you to eat the space food with micro gravity? 4. On the earth, we understand rough time with the sun even if we do not

have the clock. Do you have anything that understands the time in

space without the clock? 5. Please teaches us best 3 of the space food. 6. How do you shampoo your hair? 7. I learn the penmanship. Can you penmanship in space? 8. Why do you make the schedule with minute's interval in ISS? Is reason

that you have a lot of experiments? 9. I think the animal is not in ISS. Is there an animal in ISS? Is there a

plan that will be taken in the future, if they are not? 10. How do you drink the water? 11. What most serious thing is in space life? 12. How do you see the earth from space? 13. I think that an upper and lower sense is lost. How do you sense the upper

and lower? 14. My constellation is a scorpion seat. I saw the scorpion seat on the Cebu

Island. Do you look similar to seeing from the earth from the space

station? 15. Who decides the menu of the space food?

Information about the upcoming ARISS contacts can be found at http://www.ariss.org/upcoming.htm#NextContact.

Next planned event(s):

1. Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, Sat 08 May 2010 17:01 UTC

2. TBD for 5-7-2010

3. Kursk, Russia

Sun 09 May 2010 16:50 UTC

4. Komoro Higashi Junior High School, Komoro , Nagano, Japan Fri 14 May 2010 11:16 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