[amsat-bb] Upcoming ARISS contact with The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN

Daniel Cussen dan at post.com
Tue Aug 23 22:01:38 UTC 2016


Video recording from this successful event here:
https://www.facebook.com/childrensmuseum/videos/10154541185588701/

On 22/08/2016, n4csitwo at bellsouth.net <n4csitwo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> An International Space Station school contact has been planned with
> participants at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis IN on 23
> Aug. 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 N9DR. The contact should be audible
> over portions of the mid 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.
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> Founded in 1925, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis creates immersive,
> interdisciplinary experiences that promote inquiry-based family learning
> across the arts, sciences, and humanities.  The museum is a 473,000 square
> foot, five-level facility that houses 11 permanent exhibit galleries, two
> traveling exhibit spaces, a children's theater, a planetarium, a public
> library, a preschool, and a collection of more than 115,000 artifacts and
> objects. Most recently, the Children's Museum opened Beyond Spaceship Earth,
> and immersive exhibit focused on human space travel.    Beyond Spaceship
> Earth features three components: a recreation of portions of the inside of
> the International Space Station (ISS); a one-of-a-kind, immersive space
> object experience called the Schaefer Planetarium & Space Object Theater;
> and an Astronaut Wall of Fame, which will pay tribute to more than 30
> astronauts with ties to Indiana.
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> Hosting more than one million visitors each year, the museum has received
> numerous accolades, including being named one of the top 3 science centers
> in the country by Family Fun magazine. The museum has been ranked as the
> number one children's museum by Forbes.com. Through a variety of free and
> discounted admission programs for underserved populations, as well as its
> community outreach efforts targeting local neighborhood residents and urban
> public schools, the Museum ensures that its visitor population is diverse.
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> Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
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> 1.   How do astronauts get the water they need?
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> 2.   What experiments are you conducting on the ISS?
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> 3.   Do you have any free time while on the ISS and if so, what do you do?
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> 4.   How many personal items do you bring with you to outer space and what
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>      types of items do you bring?
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> 5.   Do you have plants on the ISS and if so, how do you grow them.  What
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>      type of food do you eat?
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> 6.   How does lack of gravity affect the body?
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> 7.   I know you have astronauts from different countries.  How do you
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>      communicate with each other?
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> 8.   What do you do with all of your trash while you are in space?
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> 9.   How long do you train before you are ready for a mission?
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> 10.  What is it like to sleep in space?
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> 11.  What is it like to do an EVA?
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> 12.  What is the most difficult task for you to do in space?
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> 13.  What happens if you need spare parts to fix something on the space
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>      station.
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> 14.  What happens to your body while you are in space?
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> 15.  What is the biggest lesson you have learned while being in space?
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> 16.  Without the ability to get fresh air into the space station, what does
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>      the ISS smell like?
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> 17.  What advice would you give to kids who want to be an astronaut?
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> 18.  What is your least favorite thing to do in space and why?
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> 19.  What is your favorite part of being an astronaut on the ISS?
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> 20.  What is your favorite food on the ISS?
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> PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:
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>       Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the
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>       International Space Station (ARISS).
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>       To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status
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> Next planned event(s):
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>       TBD
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> About ARISS:
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> Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative
> venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that
> support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States,
> sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American
> Radio Relay League (ARRL), the Center for the Advancement of Science in
> Space (CASIS) and  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
> The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology,
> engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts
> via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in
> classrooms or informal education venues.  With the help of experienced
> amateur radio volunteers, ISS crews speak directly with large audiences in a
> variety of public forums.  Before and during these radio contacts, students,
> teachers, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies,
> and amateur radio.  For more
>   information, see www.ariss.org, www.amsat.org, and www.arrl.org.
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> Thank you & 73,
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> David - AA4KN
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