An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Iruma Junior Ham Club, Iruma, Japan on 02 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:32 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS and JK1ZAM. The contact should be audible over Japan and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

After the first school contact in Japan (Iruma Children Center), many children learn the license examination and got the licenses. Our club is composed of the members who newly got the license in Iruma.

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

1. What is most heavy training, you ever experience?

2. Do you enjoy the micro-gravity?

3. It is often heard the earth is a beautiful planet when it is seem from

the space. But we have problems as global warming. Now you see the

earth in your eyes, how do you feel the sense of crisis?

4. How much is atmospheric pressure in the space station?

5. What is the most dangerous thing in the space?

6. What competition are you impressed by London Olympic Games?

7. What do you want to do, when back on earth?

8. How do you feel the first visit in the space?

9. Are there day and night in the space? And what time do you go to bed and

what time do you wake-up?

10. What is difference with the Star from the space and the Star from the

earth?

11. What do you eat in the space?

12. What is the most favorite thing that only you can in the space?

13. How do you dispose of excrement and urine.

14. What is the thing you feel strange in the space?

15. Do you make the name of killifish?

16. What do you more care in the space, than on the earth?

17. What are you doing during free-time?

18. How do you feel in micro-gravity?

19. What is difference between living in the space and living on the earth?

20. What is the earth visible to, if it compare to a thing?

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

Next planned event(s):

1. Marcelino Canino Canino Middle School, Puerto Rico, telebridge via

K6DUE

Tue, 04Sept2012 14:17 UTC

2. Gymnasium Michelstadt, Michelstadt, Germany, direct via DKØDK

Fri, 07Sept2012 08:52 UTC

3. Tara Anglican School, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia,

telebridge via ON4ISS

Sun, 09Sept2012 08:50 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