Upcoming school contacts
revised 2010-08-30
The ARISS operational team maintains a list of scheduled school contacts, and regularly updates it as necessary to take into account crew workload, and other changes to Space Agency scheduling. This page provides information about what we expect will happen, but readers should be aware that there may always be last minute changes and cancellations.
Tentative list of upcoming school contacts.
Every effort will be made to keep the information on the next contact current, but occasionally, due to other responsibilities, I may not be able to keep the information below up to date. (the webmaster)
The International Space Station's Expedition 24 is now onboard. The following ARISS contacts have been scheduled:
11
September at 12:16 UTC -
The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Oslo, Norway
The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine, Oslo, Norway - Doug Wheelock, KF5BOC
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Telebridge station LU8YY in Argentina will call NA1SS at approximately 12:16 UTC.
The Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology,
Industry and Medicine was founded in 1914 in order to help commemorate the 100th
anniversary of the Norwegian Constitution. The museum is covering an area of
around 25 000 square meters. The visit number is 250 000 per year, 63 000 of
them being students in different school programs. The Museum is the biggest
children museum in the country.
The museum’s objective is to demonstrate the implications of progress in
Science, Technology, Industry and Medicine, socially and culturally, through the
ages. The museum contains permanent exhibitions on transport and aviation,
Norwegian industrial history, energy and electricity, music machines, the wood
and metal industries, oil, gas and plastics, clocks and watches, calculating
machines and computers, as well as a science centre. The most recent addition to
the museum is the National Museum of Medicine, opened to the public in 2003.
The Science Centre started in 1986 as the first SC in Norway. In addition to
interactive exhibitions on reusable energy, the body, mathematics, physical
phenomena and astronomy, the centre is involved in exhibition projects around
the house. The biggest exhibition success is the award winning exhibition
“Climate X” on climate change. The "Climate X” exhibition was awarded “best
visitor experience of the year” in 2009 by the Association of Science and
Technology centres. In addition to the exhibits the museum is host to big
festivals like the ”soap bubbles festival” and the "LEGO festival," attracting
big crowds every year.
Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. Is it difficult to stay friends living
in such a confined space?
2. Do you have a radar to detect small particles that could collide with ISS
and what kind of impact can the hull of ISS withstand?
3. What do you eat? You haven't got much fresh food with you?
4. What scientific experiments are being conducted at the Space Station as
of today, and has the experiments been giving you any useful information?
5. In what way do you feel difference between “night and day”?
6. This summer it was in the news that you had trouble with the cooling
system. We are glad to hear that everything is back to normal. How did you
know that the cooling system was down, was it scary and did you ever believe
that you had to evacuate the Station?
7. Due to gravity, you constantly need to use energy even though you are not
doing any activities here on Earth. Does your metabolism go down due to zero
gravity or do you need as much food on board as you do on Earth?
8. Water is lost in many ways; through sweat, bodily waste etc. How much of
the water used is being recycled, and what happens to the water you can’t
recycle?
9. How do you wash yourselves and your clothes?
10. How does it feel when you return to Earth after being in Space?
11. Here on Earth, directions are given
due to the gravitation pull, such as what is up and what is down. In zero
gravity this might not be the case. How do you give directions inside the
Station and do you have a defined floor and ceiling?
12. Is the greatest challenge
living on ISS physical or mental?
13. What is the most interesting experience you have had?
14. What do you miss the most from Earth living on ISS and what do you miss
the most from ISS on return to the Earth?
15. Do you miss your families and have you any contact with them while you
are in Space?
16. How do you pass the time?
17. Are you ever scared as the rocket takes off from the ground or in any
other stage of the space flight?
18. How do you sleep?
19. Did you ever dream of becoming an astronaut when you were a child?
20. Do you ever regret becoming an astronaut?
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As always, the ISS will be audible to anyone listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink.
*Note* - for telebridge contacts, the ground station will NOT be near the school that is contacting the ISS.
Please note, the amateur equipment on the ISS will be turned off prior to the beginning of the contact. It will be returned to service as quickly as possible.
Upcoming ARISS events can be found at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.rtf The next scheduled event is a contact with students visiting the Norwegian Museum of Science, Technology and Medicine in Oslo, Norway on Saturday, September 11 at approximately 12:16 UTC. This will be a telebridge contact via station LU8YY in Argentina.
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 programme is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact.
Send comments or questions to: C Jackson