An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at St. Joan of Arc School, Lisle, IL on 08 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 18:34 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and K9LEZ. The contact should be audible over the mid and eastern portions of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

St. Joan of Arc Catholic School is located in Lisle, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. We are a pre-K to 8th grade school with about 600 students. St. Joan provides an educational environment which grants each student access to the highest quality and richest variety of integrated educational experiences within our means. We are committed to preparing our students to think critically and become confident, sensitive, Christian leaders capable of adapting and contributing to their community. Our school was awarded the National Blue Ribbon Award for Academic Excellence in 2011. Our school was named an IMSA (Illinios Math and Science Academy) Fusion School in 2012. Our school participated in NASA's microgravity program through the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in 2013. The teachers directly involves in this contact completed the American Radio Relay League's (ARRL) summer teacher institute program and are working with local radio amateurs to successfully complete this contact and to provide additional opportunities to our classrooms.

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

1. Was it hard to sit so long in the Soyuz capsule on the way to the ISS?

2. Do you have any type of church services or a chance to receive communion

on the ISS?

3. What is your favorite thing you have seen on Earth from the space

station?

4. What type of research are you doing on the ISS?

5. What made you want to become an astronaut?

6. What is your favorite thing to eat in space?

7. Merrick: How do you talk to your family and friends?

8. What happens if you get sick?

9. Is it hard to sleep in space?

10. What do you miss most about home?

11. What do you like to do in your free time?

12. What is the scariest thing you have experienced as an astronaut?

13. What type of exercises do you do while in space?

14. What was your favorite subject while in school?

15. What was the hardest part of astronaut training?

16. What is the most interesting object in the universe that you have seen

from the ISS?

17. What advice would you give to a student who would like to someday

become an astronaut?

18. What do you miss most about gravity?

19. What is the greatest challenge of living with people from other

countries?

20. What do you enjoy most about being weightless?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Lanier Middle School and Lanier Cluster Schools, Sugar Hill, GA, direct

via W4GR

Contact is a go for: Tue, 09Sept2014, 11:16 UTC

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA.

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/

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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