An educational radio contact is planned with The Robert Drake Primary School, Essex, UK, telebridge via ARISS Telebridge Station K6DUE in Greenbelt, Maryland. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be TBD; the scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB, the ARISS mentor is MØXTD.
Contact is go for: Monday 21 October 2024, 09:42:16 UTC, 36 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 The Robert Drake Primary School students:
1. What do I need to learn to be an astronaut?
2. What do you do to have fun in space?
3. How long has the international space station been in space?
4. Is time different in space?
5. Do you watch TV? If yes, what do you watch?
6. What do you eat and how do you eat it?
7. What advice would you give kids like me who may want to be an astronaut in the future?
8. How do people drink on the space station?
9. How do you get food and water in space?
10. What is your favourite part of earth to fly over and why?
11. Have you ever walked in space?
12. What is your favourite part of being an astronaut on the space station?
13. Does it take long to get use to gravity back home?
14. Do you get chance to speak to family in friends and how do you do it?
15. Have you seen any shooting stars or comets whilst on the space station?