ARISS School Contact 5 October 2024, 16:06 UTC, telebridge via K6DUE

Astroanut Jeanette Epps. Credits: NASA

An educational radio contact is planned with 213 RCSCC Qu’Appelle (Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corp), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, telebridge via K6DUE ARISS Telebridge Station K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS  and the scheduled crewmember is Jeanette Epps KF5QNU, the ARISS mentor is VE6JBJ .

Contact is go for: 5 October 2024, 16:06:05 UTC 31 deg .; Downlink signals from ISS will be audible above Maryland, USA, and nearby areas on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM. RX only! (Credit: AMSAT.)

Proposed questions generated by the 213 RCSCC Qu’Appelle (Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corp)students:

1. How do astronauts drink on the space station?

2. What are day to day activities like on the space station?

3. Do you always float on the space station?

4. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you on the space station and how has that impacted you?

5. What is the training like to become an astronaut?

6. How long did it take you to be an astronaut?

7. How do you exercise?

8. What is your morning routine?

9. What’s the toughest thing you have to deal with being in space? 10. How has this experience changed your life?

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