iss school qso on echolink Thurs Dec 15 1542gmt amsat 101377

[S56CT]

Please join us in listening to the school contact between the ISS and the Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego California USA on Thursday, Dec
15, 2005 at 15:42 UTC.

The audio from this event will be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (node
101377) and EDU_Net (node 77 992) conference room servers. Please make your connection to the EDU_NET server. By keeping the load light on the AMSAT server, we assure better audio quality for all.

The audio from this contact will also be available on the IRLP Discovery
Reflector 9010,and streaming audio of this contact will be available
on the Discovery Reflector web site http://www.discoveryreflector.ca/ with
an audio delay of 2 minutes.

73 de Dieter kx4y


Dieter K. Schliemann, kx4y, AMSAT life member LM-1265
ARISS Audio Feed into EchoLink team member

1803 Roseberry Drive, Scottsboro, AL 35769-3960, USA
Home Phone - (256) 259-3900
Cell Phone - (256) 599-0581
IRLP node 4713, EchoLink node 47135
Skype user ID: zs6bbh




>The next International Space Station's Expedition 12 ARISS school
contact
>will be with students at the Mt Carmel High School in San Diego,
California,
>USA on Thursday, 15 December 2005. The event is scheduled to begin at
>approximately 15:42 UTC.
>
>This contact will be direct between stations NA1SS and KG6EQU, so it
should
>be audible to anyone in the western United States and northwestern
portions
>of Mexico listening in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants
are
>expected to conduct the conversation in English.
>
>Mt. Carmel High School is located in Rancho Penasquitos, a hilly,
>residential community of northern San Diego. They are just a few
miles from
>the Pacific Ocean, and about an hour's drive from the Mt. Palomar
>Observatory. The school's enrollment is about 2,200 students. We
have a
>diverse student population, with many different languages spoken as
the
>primary language at home, including a number of students whose first
>language is Russian. Our school is undergoing a major remolding
effort. Part
>of that remodeling effort included accommodations for the Mt. Carmel
High
>School Amateur Radio Club antennas.
>
>Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
>
>1. What was the most important aspect of your training as you
prepared for
>this mission?
>2. What do you do for fun in the ISS?
>3. What kind of rehabilitation must you go through when you re-enter
the
>one-g environment here on Earth?
>4. Does the temperature in the ISS change?
>5. How accurate are the movie portrayals of life in space? Which
movie is
>closest to the reality?
>6. Have any micrometeorites ever struck the ISS?
>7. What's the best thing the engineers designed into the space
station that
>you are most thankful for?
>8. How does the view of the stars from the ISS compare to the view
here on
>Earth?
>9. How many students have you had an opportunity to talk to while in
the
>ISS?
>10. How do you exercise in the ISS?
>11. What do you find most interesting about being in space?
>12. Can you see satellites or other objects from the ISS?
>13. What is the most surprising thing that you can see when you look
back at
>the Earth?
>14. What are some of the experiments you are doing in the ISS?
>15. Has anyone become sick while on the ISS and what do you do for
them?
>16. Was it always your dream to become an astronaut?
>17. Have you tried throwing an object in one direction to get moving
in the
>opposite direction? (conservation of momentum)
>18. Do you get to go outside the space station to do work?
>19. What's the most important character trait every astronaut must
have?
>20. After being up there so long, do you have ideas for future
improvements
>on 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 after that event. Information about the next scheduled ARISS
>contact can be found at
http://www.rac.ca/ariss/upcoming.htm#NextContact.
>Next planned event(s):
>Carman Park Elementary School, Flint, MI USA 2005-12-21 16:34 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