Archive - Sep 2012 - Recorded Contacts
September 21st
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) - Lafayette Middle School, Lafayette , GA, 1504 UTC on 21 September 2012
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) speaks to students at Lafayette Middle School, Lafayette , GA, USA at 1504 UTC on 21 September 2012 via telebridge station W4LMS. She answered the following questions:
1. What time zone do you use on the ISS?
2. What fuels the Space Station?
3. Does everyone there have a specific job?
4. Describe a normal day on the ISS.
5. How do you perform daily tasks like cooking, eating , and laundry on the Space Station?
6. Other than gravity, what are the differences between life in Space and life on Earth?
7. What landmarks on Earth can you see from space?
September 13th
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) - Burns Sci-Tech Charter School, Oak Hill, FL, 1818 UTC on 13 September 2012
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) speaks to students at Burns Sci-Tech Charter School in Oak Hill, FL, USA at 1818 UTC on 13 September 2012 via telebridge station KK4KTJ . She answered the following questions:
1. Do you keep your food cold?
2. What do you miss the most about the earth?
3. What food do you miss the most while in space?
4. What is the brightest city you can see from space and how do you know it is that city?
5. What is one project you are working on now?
6. How do you get oxygen in the ISS?
7. Does being in space affect your metabolism?
Joe Acaba (NA1SS) - Marcelino Canino Canino Middle School, Dorado, Puerto Rico on 12 September 2012 at 1728 UTC
Joe Acaba (NA1SS) speaks to students at Marcelino Canino Canino Middle School in Dorado, Puerto Rico on 12 September 2012 at 1728 UTC via telebridge station K6DUE in Maryland. He answered the following questions:
1. ¿Que te gusta comer en la Estación Espacial?
2. Si pudieras remover parte de tu rutina diaria en el espacio, ¿qué sería?
3. ¿Que haces con tu ropa sucia y tu basura?
4. ¿Cómo mantienen la estación Espacial limpia y quien realiza las distintas labores?
5. ¿Como hace para ir al baño en el espacio y que hacen con los desperdicios sólidos?
6. ¿Cómo duermes en el espacio?
September 1st
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) - National Electronics Museum, Linthicum, MD, 1505 UTC on 01 September 2012
Capt. Sunita Williams (NA1SS) speaks to youth at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, MD, U.S.A. at 1505 UTC on 01 September 2012 via telebridge station K3CUJ. She answered the following questions:
1. What was the scariest part about being in space?
2. How does solar activity affect you while you're in the space station?
3. What's the smallest object on earth you can identify from space?
4. When you look at Earth what do you see?
5. Is the food all freeze dried? Do you have Twinkies?
6. Are you required to have a ham license to go to space?
7. Is Ham Radio fun?