ARISS Contact is Scheduled with Students at Collège Maurice Genevoix, Couzeix, France
June 7, 2021—Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts. ARISS is the group that puts together special amateur radio contacts between students around the globe and crew members with ham radio licenses on the International Space Station (ISS).
This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students from Collège Maurice Genevoix. Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG, during the ARISS radio contact. French is the language expected to be used during the contact. The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the ARISS radio telebridge station.
ARISS team member Jan Poppeliers, in Aartselaar, Belgium using radio call sign ON4ISS, will serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio station. Each student asking a question on the ARISS radio will be conferenced in from home or social-distanced at school.
The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for June 7, 2021 at 3:07 pm CEST (Couzeix, France) (13:07 UTC, 9:07 am EDT, 8:07 am CDT, 7:07 am MDT, 6:07 am PDT).
Collège Maurice Genevoix (699 students in grades 6 to 13) is located near the city of Limoges, in central western France. In preparation of this ARISS contact, course curricula were supplemented to link aspects of space habitation and space exploration with the existing courses. The school has partnered with members of the Amateur Radio Club of the University of Limoges who have helped the students prepare (and become licensed) for the contact and will support them during the contact.
View the livestream of the upcoming ARISS radio contact at: https://live.recreasciences.com/.
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As time allows, students will ask these questions:
- Comment gérez-vous le stress pendant une sortie dans l’espace?
- Pourquoi as-tu voulu être astronaute? Qu’est-ce qui t’attirait le plus?
- Qu’est-ce que vous aimez dans votre aventure dans l’espace en particulier?
- Avez-vous déjà rencontré de graves disfonctionnements lors d’une de vos expéditions?
- La préparation des missions est-elle compliquée et éprouvante?
- Quelle est la place de la femme dans l’aventure spatiale?
- Est-ce gênant de dormir debout dans l’ISS?
- Quelles sont les expériences que vous allez faire dans la Station Spatiale Internationale?
- Comment faites-vous pour manger et boire?
- Qu’est-ce que ça fait de partir dans l’espace pendant longtemps?
- Quelles sensations ressens-tu au niveau du décollage et dans l’espace?
- Est-ce facile de s’adapter à l’apesanteur?
- Est-ce que la pratique du judo vous a aidé dans la préparation de la 1ère mission?
l4. Comment fait-on à manger dans l’espace? À quelles nourritures avez vous droit? - Sous quelle forme est conditionnée la nourriture?
- Quand vous êtes allé pour la première fois dans l’espace, aviez-vous eu le vertige, quels étaient vos sensations/vos sentiments?
- J’imagine que cela n’a pas été facile de s’entraîner chaque jour sans relâche, est-ce que vous aviez déjà eu envie d’arrêter?
- Est ce que ton goût est-il affecté par l’apesanteur?
l9. Pouvez-vous respirer sans casque dans une fusée? - Est-ce que la terre ferme vous manque?
- Comment fais-tu pour revenir sur terre?
- Combien de temps allez-vous passer dans l’espace?
- Comment faites vous pour manger et boire?
Translation:
- How do you deal with stress during a spacewalk?
- Why did you want to be an astronaut? What attracted you the most?
- What do you like about your adventure in space in particular?
- Have you ever encountered serious malfunctions during one of your expeditions?
- Is the preparation of missions complicated and stressful?
- What is the place of women in the space adventure?
- Is it embarrassing to sleep standing up in the ISS?
- What are the experiments you are going to do in the International Space Station?
- How do you eat and drink?
- How does it feel to be in space for a long time?
- What sensations do you feel during take-off and in space?
- Is it easy to adapt to weightlessness?
- Did the practice of Judo help you in the preparation of the 1st mission?
l4. How do you eat in space? What foods are you entitled to? - How is the food packaged?
- When you first went to space, were you dizzy? What were your sensations / feelings?
- I guess it wasn’t easy to train tirelessly every day: have you ever wanted to give up?
- Is your taste affected by weightlessness?
l9. Can you breathe without a helmet in a rocket? - Do you miss dry land (the earth)?
- How do you get back to earth?
- How long will you spend in space?
- How do you eat and drink?