[sarex] Re: ARISS event - Scuola Elementare Faleriense "GianniRodari", Porto S. Elpidio, Italy, Thur (Dec 18) at 12:10 UTC

Tue Dec 16 05:52:04 PST 2008

The 18th is correct but that should be Thursday.

Kenneth - N5VHO

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Subject: [ARISS-press] ARISS event - Scuola Elementare Faleriense
"GianniRodari", Porto S. Elpidio, Italy, Fri (Dec 18) at 12:10 UTC

An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has
been planned with participants at Scuola Elementare Faleriense "Gianni
Rodari", Porto S. Elpidio, Italy on 18 December. The event is scheduled
to begin at approximately 1210 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations OR4ISS and I6KZR. The
contact should be audible over most of Europe. Interested parties are
invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are
expected to conduct the conversation in English. 

The school "Gianni Rodari" is located in Porto Sant'Elpidio, a small
town in Southern Italy. It is situated on the shore of the Adriatic Sea,
50 km away from Ancona and 30 km from the beautiful city of San
Benedetto del Tronto. "Gianni Rodari" is a big primary school including
a kindergarten. The school offers practical courses and projects such as
the radio contact with the International Space Station.

Another important and exciting project for the pupils is the
construction and test of the "coherer", the primitive radio signal
detector. It was invented by Temistocle Calzecchi Onesti, who
demonstrated in experiments in 1884 through 1886 that iron filings
contained in an insulating tube will conduct an electrical current under
the action of an electromagnetic wave. This discovery was important for
the later work of Sir Oliver Lodge, Edouard Branly and Guglielmo Marconi
in the development of the radio. Onesti lived in Monterubbiano, a small
village near the city of Porto Sant'Elpidio.

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

1. How are you?
2. What's your name and how old are you?
3. How long are you already onboard the ISS on this mission?
4. What do you feel during takeoff?
5. Are you afraid of anything during your stay onboard the ISS?
6. When did you decide to become an astronaut?
7. Did you have good marks at school?
8. What do you see right now when you look through the window of your
spaceship?
9. What exactly is a black hole?
10. Do you see any planet from the spaceship?
11. What does the spaceship inside look like?
12. Is it your first time in the spaceship?
13. What is the total size of the spaceship?
14. Do you sleep in a bed with sheets and blanket?
15. What do you eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
16. How many hours do you sleep per day? Do you sleep well?
17. What's your daily routine onboard up there?
18. Are you bored sometimes?
19. Are you homesick? What do you do when you feel like that?
20. Have you children?
21. Is it very hard living without gravity?

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

Next planned event(s): 
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sat 2008-12-27 15:53 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, 
Kenneth - N5VHO 

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