An International Space Station Expedition 13 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Reece High School, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia on Friday, 18 Aug 2006. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:38 UTC.

The contact will be a telebridge between stations NA1SS and W6SRJ. The contact should be audible to anyone in portions of Western United States and Mexico. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. Additional listening options are listed below. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

IRLP - Connect to the IRLP reflector 9010. You may also connect via the IRLP Discovery website at http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/listen.htm.

EchoLink - The audio from this contact will be available on the EchoLink *AMSAT* (node 101 377) and the *JK1ZRW* (node 277 208) conference rooms. Please connect to the *JK1ZRW* server to keep the load light on the *AMSAT* server. This will ensure good audio quality for all listeners. _________________________________ AUDIO STREAMING AND AUDIO REPLAY PARTICIPANT INFORMATION:

To join the event: URL: https://e-meetings.mci.com CONFERENCE NUMBER: 9830026 PASSCODE: SPACE STATIO

To access the Audio Replay of this call, all parties can: 1. Go to the URL listed above. 2. Choose Audio Streaming under Join Events. 3. Enter the conference number and passcode. (Note that if this is a recurring event, multiple dates may be listed.) Replays are available for 30 days after the live event._________________________________

Devonport High and Reece High Schools with a total of 1,800 students have combined for this ARISS event. The two public schools serve the education needs of the city of Devonport in Tasmania. Devonport High was first opened in 1916 and shared rooms in the Town Hall till moving to their present site in 1920. In the year 2000 Reece High was burned to the ground and students co-located with Devonport High till the new school was rebuilt and officially opened in 2003. Since 2003 Reece High has won numerous international commendations. The combined students will be assembling at the Reece High School auditorium for the contact with the ISS

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

1. How many people are on the ISS at any one time? 2. Do you ever feel claustrophobic in the space station? 3. Do space stations need to be driven in space or do they float in orbits? 4. How does the ISS change its orbit? 5. For what amount of time have you been in space? 6. While in space, how do your sleeping patterns alter without night and day? 7. Who makes the decisions about the expeditions and experiments that take place on the ISS? 8. How do you celebrate birthdays, Christmas etc. in space? 9. What space walks have been completed recently and for what reasons? 10. Do you have a stove/microwave in space? 11. Why can't you take pure Oxygen into space? 12. Do you have to do exercise in space? How do you keep fit? 13. What are the health issues that arise whilst in space? 14. Do day and night last the same amount of time on the space station as they do on Earth? 15. What do you eat? 16. How do you drink water - does it just float away? 17. Do you wash your clothes while in space, if so: how? 18. How far are you from earth? 19. In which ways, if any, do you communicate with your family? 20. Do you get homesick?

Please note, the amateur equipment on the ISS has been undergoing SSTV evaluations and will be turned off prior to the contact. The radios will likely continue to be intermittently active during this evaluation and testing phase. Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact .

Next planned event(s): Sendai Yoshinari Junior High School, Sendai, Japan, direct via 8J7YJH Fri 2006-08-25 08:12 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.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).

Thank you & 73, Kenneth - N5VHO