ARISS contacts are off limits for the next several weeks due to the crew handover.

Next Scheduled Contacts:

Webster High School, Webster, N.Y.

Klem Road South Elementary, Webster, N.Y.

Stanford University
Palo Alto Gunn High School, California

Cornell University

Upcoming ARISS Contact Schedule as of 2003-04-30 04:00 UTC

The ARISS (a joint effort of AMSAT, the ARRL, NASA, the ARISS international
partners including Canada, Russia, the European Partners, and Japan) operations
team wishes to announce the following very tentative schedule for ARISS school
contacts. This schedule is very fluid and may change at the last minute.
Remember that amateur radio use on the ISS is considered secondary. Please
check the various AMSAT and ARISS webpages for the latest announcements.
Changes from the last announcement are noted with (***). Also, please check
MSNBC.com for possible live retransmissions
(http://www.msnbc.com/m/lv/default.asp). Listen for the ISS on the downlink of
145.80 MHz.

For information about educational materials available from ISS partner space
Agencies, please refer to links on the ARISS Frequently Asked Questions page.

If you are interested in supporting an ARISS contact, then you must fill
in an application. The ARISS operations mentor team will not accept a
direct request to support an ARISS contact.

You should also note that many schools think that they can request a
specific date and time. It does not work that way. Once an application
has been accepted, the ARISS mentors will work with the school to
determine a mutually agreeable date.

Websites that may be of interest include:

http://www.arrl.org/sarex
http://www.arrl.org/ariss
http://www.amsat.org
http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://spacelink.nasa.gov/index.html
http://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/educator_guide/

Your completely filled out application should be returned to the
nearest coordinating ARISS region if your specific region is not
listed. E-mail is the preferred method of submitting an application.

Here are the email addresses:
ARISS-Canada and all other countries not covered: ve2ka@rac.ca (Daniel
Lamoureux VE2KA)
ARISS-Europe: jh.hahn@gmx.net (J. Hahn, DL3LUM / PA1MUC)
ARISS-Japan and all Region 3 countries: iaru-r3@jarl.or.jp (Keigo Komuro
JA1KAB)
ARISS-Russia: n2ww@attbi.com (Valerie Agabekov N2WW/UA6HZ)
ARISS-USA: ARISS@arrl.org (The American Radio Relay League)

ISS Expedition 6 crew:
Kenneth Bowersox KD5JBP
Nikolai Budarin RV3FB
Donald Pettit KD5MDT

ISS Expedition 7 crew:
Ed Lu KC5WKJ
Yuri Malenchenko RK3DUP

Congrats to Ken, Nikolai, and Don for all of the ARISS contacts. ARISS contacts
are off limits for the next several weeks due to the crew handover. (***)

Webster High School, Webster, N.Y.
TBD UTC

Klem Road South Elementary, Webster, N.Y.
TBD UTC

Stanford University
Palo Alto Gunn High School, California
TBD UTC

Cornell University
TBD UTC

Boulder High School, Colorado
TBD UTC

Panahou High School, Honolulu, Hawaii
TBD UTC

Fédération Départementale des Radioamateurs de Seine Maritime - FDARSM
Rouen, France
TBD UTC

Rains High School, Texas
TBD UTC

Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL
TBD UTC

Contact was not completed

Proposed questions for Challenger Learning Center are:
1. What do you do for fun in space?
2. How do you do anything like eat or read if everything is floating?
3. What is the weather like in space?
4. How and when do you sleep?
5. Can you talk to your family from space?
6. How fast can a spaceship go?
7. Do the astronauts always get along being together for that length of time?
8. What's the best thing about being in space?
9. Do you ever get homesick?
10. Do you get to watch TV or listen to the radio in space?
11. Is space scary? What is the scariest thing you have seen in space?
12. What would happen if you dropped something in space?
13. Is it always black in/around the space?
14. What is in a spaceship?
15. What do you do for all the time you are in space?
16. What noises do you hear when you are out in space?
17. Why do things float in space?
18. What do you have to do to be an astronaut?
19. What time is it in space? What day is it?
20. What is one thing you wish you could do in space that you haven't?
21. How big is a spaceship?
22. How do weigh stuff in space if everything floats?
23. What do you eat while you are in space?
24. Have you kept a souvenir from space? If so, what?
25. How can you tell where you are going in space?
26. Can you see the sun rise or set in space?
27. What kind of gas does a spaceship use?
28. Do you have any funny stories about being in space?
29. What kind of experiments are you doing in space?
30. Are you scared to maybe be coming home in the capsule?

The latest ARISS announcement and successful school list is now available on the
ARISS web site. Several ways to get there.

Latest ARISS announcements and news
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt

Successful school list
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf

or
http://ariss.gsfc.nasa.gov

If you can not get into the GSFC site, then go directly to the RAC site. (***)

click on English (sorry I don't know French)
you are now at http://www.rac.ca/ariss/
click on News

Currently the ARISS operations team has a list of over 60 schools that we
hope will be able to have a contact during 2003. As the schedule becomes more
solidified, we will be letting everyone know. Current plans call for an average
of one scheduled school contact per week.

73,
Charlie Sufana AJ9N
One of the ARISS operation team mentors