An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at ITIS Giovanni Caramuel, Vigevano, Italy on 15 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:16 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 Italian.

The Industrial Technical Institute was founded in Vigevano on October 1, 1965 as a branch of ITIS CARDANO in Pavia. In 1976 it became independent and started a Mechanics course. During the school year 1978/79 the institute is named after Juan Caramuel, Spanish man of art and science. In the next few years the educational offer of the Institute has been completed with technical courses in Electronics and Telecommunication, Computer Science and Chemistry, Materials and Biotechnology.

In the school year 1996/97 a new Scientific Technological Lyceum is added, becoming later Applied Sciences Lyceum after the school reform in 2010. It is a specific course, which is independent from the Industrial Technical Institute, having a syllabus very similar to the traditional Scientific Lyceum but with a greater commitment to technological society.

The institute has more than 600 students and 31 classes. It is housed in a recently built building owned by the Province of Pavia; it can be considered a modern school, since a big attention is paid to the most innovative educational technologies of the present time, which include up-to-date laboratories. In the school year 2010/11 the Institute obtained from the Ministry of Education the CertINT certificate, due to the school's commitment in activities carried out in the field of internationality and intercultural exchange.

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

1. How big is the Space Station and how far is it from the Earth?

2. Is it true that there is no gravity on the space station?

3. How long does it take to complete an orbit around the Earth?

4. What technological appliances are you testing on the ISS at the moment?

5. How do you resupply oxygen and water aboard the ISS?

6. What do you eat in space?

7. How can you drink in microgravity?

8. How can you sleep in space?

9. Where do you put your waste?

10. How do your muscles react to space environment?

11. Which material are your spacesuits made of?

12. What are the risks of exposure to space radiations?

13. When you were a teenager, did you ever dream about the experience that

you are currently living?

14. How does the Sun, the Moon and the Earth look from the space station?

15. Which time zone do you follow in space?

16. What do you do if one of you get sick?

17. Do you have to attend a specific course to become an astronaut?

18. To which territorial jurisdiction are you subject?

19. How long do you stay aboard the space station?

20. How did you train yourself to get used to the absence of weight?

21. Do you listen to music on the ISS? If yes, which kind of?

22. What is your favourite memory of your space adventure?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Delaware Township School, Sergeantsville, NJ, telebridge via VK4KHZ

Wed, 19Feb2014 15:04 UTC

2. Marymount University (Fort Belvoir Elem.), Arlington, VA, telebridge

via K6DUE

Wed, 19Feb2014, 19:02 UTC

3. Australian Air League - South Australia Wing, Elizabeth, South

Australia,

Australia, telebridge via AH6NM

Fri, 21Feb2014, 08:36 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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