An educational radio contact is planned with Colegio Cervantes, Torreon. Mexico, Telebridge via K6DUE ARISS Telebridge Station K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS anf the scheduled crewmember is Don Pettit KD5MDT; the ARISS mentor is VE3TBD .
Contact is go for: Friday 18 October 2024, 16:59:43 UTC, 63 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 Colegio Cervantes students:
1. What is the greatest benefit that humanity has obtained from space exploration?
2. What will be NASA’s next mission?
3. What is the distance that the rocket or spacecraft needs to reach after launching to separate and keep flying freely into space?
4. What is the most marvelous thing that you have experienced in space?
5. Is there any activity made by robots in the international space station?
6. What happens when an astronaut gets sick while in space?
7. What is the most wonderful thing about being an astronaut?
8. Since the station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes with 16 sunrises and sunsets per day, how do you manage to sleep?
9. What type of research are you working on at the moment?
10. Can you describe what is it like to do a spacewalk?
11. What do you feel when looking down at Earth?
12. What is the most ambitious project that NASA is currently working on?
13. What has been the most difficult and the happiest experience you have had in a space mission?
14. In terms of exploration, where are we going next?
15. How do you prepare physically and psychologically for space missions?
16. If something happened on Earth, could we go to Mars? What conditions does that planet have that would make it possible for us to live there?
17. Has your perspective on Earth and life changed after being in space?