An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Amicale Space Camp organized by Sterrenlab for children of the European Patent Office/NL, Leiden, The Netherlands (Summer Space Camp, Noordwijk, Netherlandson 30 Aug. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:11 UTC.

The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between OR4ISS and PA3GUO. The contact should be audible over Italy. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Sterrenlab is a small company in the field of science communication and education, specialized in the organization of international science and space camps for children and teenagers.

The European Patent Office is a European organization with several sites in Europe.

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

1. Where do you come from?

2. Do you think aliens exist?

3. Can you see the Netherlands from the Space Station? And your house?

4. Do you have animals on board the International Space Station?

5. Are you homesick?

6. Do you have children?

7. Did you participate to survival camps during your astronaut training?

8. Would you prefer going to the Moon, to Mars or to an asteroid?

9. What languages do you speak?

10. What was your favorite subject at school?

11. Do you think the space agencies will soon detect an exoplanet with alien

forms of life?

12. Do you have chocolate on the Space Station?

13. Did you have many friends when you were a child?

14. How is called the rocket you flew with?

15. Do you ever have issues with your crew mates?

16. If you would meet an alien, what would you tell him?

17. When are you coming back to Earth?

18. What's your favorite sport?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Gwalior Glory High School, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, telebridge

via IK1SLD

Sat, 31Aug2013, 11:22 UTC

2. Mill Springs Academy, Alpharetta, GA, direct via KK4OVR

Wed, 04Sept2013, 14:15 UTC

3. Duluth Children's Museum, Duluth, MN, direct via WØGKP

Sat, 07Sept2013, 15:03 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