Upcoming ARISS contact in Morinville, Alberta on Wednesday, June 2

ARISS Contact on Wednesday, June 2

https://www.rac.ca/upcoming-ariss-co...rta-on-june-2/

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** As part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
program, Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, KE5DNI (https://iss.jaxa.jp/en/as
tro/biographies/hoshide/index.html) , will connect with students from Th
e Father's House Christian School (https://tfhschool.ca/) in Morinville
, Alberta and answer their questions.

The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 2, 2021 at 8:28:53 am MDT
(Morinville, Alberta, Canada) (14:28:53 UTC, 10:28:53 am EDT, 9:2
8:53 am CDT, 7:28:53 am PDT). This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Conta
ct.
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The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by
listeners who are within the ISS footprint that also encompasses the ARIS
S radio telebridge station.

ARISS team member Shane Lynd, VK4KHZ, from an Amateur Radio club stati
on in Glenden, Queensland, Australia will serve as the relay Amateur R
adio station.

Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in f
rom home or social-distanced at school.

The Father's House Christian School is a Home Education Provider (Roots).
Roots has 257 families, 550 students and 14 facilitators in its homesch
ooling program. In preparation for the ARISS contact, students and paren
ts were involved in activities / discussions about space travel and living
on the ISS. Students also built a model of the ISS using recycled materia
ls. Home-school teaching material sources included studies on space explor
ation, life on the ISS and primary science topics, drawn from the webs
ites: European Space Agency (Space and Exploration), NASA (ISS KidZone)
, and Primary Science Teacher College.

View the live stream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at https://youtu.
be/S0_-QFkXdi4


** Questions:
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:

1. How do you sleep when there is no gravity?

2. What do you eat in space, and how do you bring the food to space?

3. How do you not crash into space debris?

4. Is it hard to learn how to walk again on earth after being in the space
station?

5. What is the Canadarm used for?

6. How does a candle react when it is lit in space in a zero gravity and o
xygen supplied environment?

7. Why is going to Mars a one-way trip for humans?

8. I am interested in Astrophotography. I recently saw a picture that Astr
onaut Chris Cassidy captured of Hurricane Laura on August 25, 2020. Can
you manually control the exterior cameras or are they are in a fixed posi
tion?

9. How long do you stay up in the ISS at a time?

10. Would a body decompose in space and if so, how long would it take?

11. What does it feel like to float in space?

12. How fast do you go? How many times do you orbit earth each day?

13. What happens if your radio breaks and you can't talk to earth?

14. What are some experiments you are working on?

15. How do you know where to land when you leave space and come back to Ea
rth?

16. Do you do anything special on birthdays and holidays in space?

17. What did it feel like looking back at Earth the first time you saw it
from space?

18. What does launching from Earth feel like?

19. Is there anything flammable on the International Space Station, and
if there is, what do you do if there is a fire?

20. Does hair grow faster or slower in space?

For more information visit:

https://www.rac.ca/upcoming-ariss-co...rta-on-june-2/


Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director

www.rac.ca (http://www.rac.ca/)
720 Belfast Road, #217
Ottawa, ON K1G 0Z5
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