[HARC] ISS contact with Baltimore area students Sept 1

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An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants 
at National Electronics Museum, Linthicum, MD on 01 Sept. The event is scheduled 
to begin at approximately 15:09 UTC. The duration of the contact is 
approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between NA1SS 
and K3CUJ. The contact should be audible over the eastern U.S. 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.

The National Electronics Museum is located just outside Baltimore, Maryland. NEM 
is home to the country's largest collection of historic defense electronics, 
including radar, radios, electronic countermeasures, sonar, and space sensors. 
The museum also has objects derived from defense electronics like the Apollo XI 
camera and early GPS equipment.

The students are Junior and Senior schoolers from the local Baltimore area. They 
have completed a six-week amateur radio course and are now licensed hams. As 
part of their training, they used an AMSAT satellite to make a contact. Their 
first contact as hams is with the ISS.?

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

1.? What was the scariest part about being in space?

2.? How does solar activity affect you while you're in the space station?

3.? What's the smallest object on earth you can identify from space?

4.? When you look at Earth what do you see?

5.? Is the food all freeze dried? Do you have Twinkies?

6.? Are you required to have a ham license to go to space?

7.? Is Ham Radio fun?

8.? How do you contact your family from space?

9.? How far does your radio reach?

10. Did you ever experience anything that no amount of training could have?

? ? prepared you for?

11. Is the experience of space what you expected?

12. Does being up in space get boring after a while?

13. How many times a day do you circle the earth?

14. What do you miss?

15. Do you speak on Ham Radio often?

16. Is it hard to move around without gravity?

17. Do you view the world differently now that you have seen it from space?

18. What do you have to major in college to start your career as an?

? ? astronaut?



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