An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Scuola Primaria III Circolo "Tiro a Segno", Fermo, I-63023, Italy, and Scuola Primaria "Viale della Vittoria", Montecosaro, I-62010, Italy on 6 April. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 07:10 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.

The contact will be direct between IR0ISS and I6KZR. The contact should be audible over Italy and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in Italian.

The Primary School "Tiro a Segno" (Shooting) is located in Fermo, Marche Region, Italy.The project called "New technologies" is mentioned in the annual plane of work that in Italian schools. The project concerns a correct approach with technology and the children are involved in an educational path of research and experiments. Members of the local RADIO AMATEURS club teach our students the importance Ham Radio activities and the use of telegraph.

Montecosaro is a little town that is in the province of Macerata, along the valley of Chienti. The school "Viale della Vittoria" provides an opportunity to learn the knowledge offered by the Ministry programs and learn how to rework them so that they become knowledge that make life serene and conscious experience. To increase the educational offer, propose projects such as computer science, the game of chess engines, pottery, art and expression.

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

1. What's your mission?

2. Will be possible to build a city in the outer space?

3. How do you spend your day on board of ISS?

4. What you feel when you observe the earth from so far away?

5. It's true that the only human works, visible to the naked eye from the

space, is the "Great Chinese Wall"?

6. How to live in the space?

7. How do you contact the Earth?

8. How do you fill without gravity?

9. How do you see the planet and stars from ISS?

10. Do you have seen lifeforms or spacecrafts not terrestrial?

11. How did your passion for the space?

12. How many missions you have done?

13. What was the training for this travel like?

14. How can one become an astronaut?

15. How many people are travelling with you at the moment?

16. How do you speak with your colleagues on ISS?

17. How long will your travel on ISS?

18. What are the "nodes" module and what are they used for?

19. How will your landing?

20. Which is the greatest difficulty you have met while living in the space?

21. Who does command the ISS?

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

Next planned event(s):

1. John XXIII College, Perth, Western Australia, Australia, telebridge via

W6SRJ

Mon 11 April 2011, 07:17 UTC

2. Hopewell Ave Public School, Ottawa, ON, Canada, telebridge via WH6PN

Wed 13 April 2011, 16:10 UTC

3. Istituto Sociale, Torino, Italy, telebridge via K6DUE

Thu, 14 April 2011, 08:49 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