An International Space Station Expedition 14 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at Hanazono Elementary School, Akashi-city, Japan on Monday, 12 Feb. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 09:12 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and 8N3F. The contact should be audible in the Japan and Eastern Asia. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Hanazono Elementary, is located in Akashi, the city that Japan Standard time is defined by. Students sometimes go to the planetarium of the astronomical science building in Akashi or observe the starry sky at the playground. Students went to camp at astronomical observatory park in our prefecture when they were 5th grade and looked at stars through a two-meter telescope. We are breeding the Japanese killifish that were on the space shuttle with the astronaut Chiaki Mukai. There are many children interested in outer space in our school.