The ARISS team is pleased to announce that the next school contact with the International Space Station astronauts will take place Friday, 27 August between the ISS crew and students at Upper St. Clair High School in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, USA. The contact is scheduled to begin approximately 1345 UTC or 9:45 local time.

The ARISS team is pleased to announce that the next school contact with the International Space Station astronauts will take place Tuesday, 10 August between the ISS crew and students at Good Shepherd School, Decherd and St. Paul's in Tullahoma, Tennessee, USA. The contact is scheduled to begin about 1343 UTC. This contact is being shared by Good Shepherd and St. Paul Catholic.

This will be a direct contact between the Space Station, NA1SS, and St. Paul's School in Tullahoma, Tennessee's K4FUN.

Please note, the packet station will be turned off prior to the beginning of the contact. It will be returned to service as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Student will ask the following questions:
1. How many laps does the Space Station go around the earth?
2. Is the Space Station big enough?
3. How do you see Japan from the Space Station?
4. Is the view that you see from the Space Station beautiful?
5. Can you get your hair cut in the Space Station?
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The ARISS team is pleased to announce that the next school contact with the International Space Station astronauts will take place Thursday, 29 July between the ISS crew and students at the Council on sound development for school children in Habikino, Japan. The contact is scheduled to begin about 1155 UTC.

By Charlie Sufana, AJ9N:

Hi all,

Mike Fincke KE5AIT on board the ISS had a very successful contact with the Erie Planetarium this afternoon at approximately 2004-05-25 18:01 UTC. There were 18 questions asked before Mike went over the horizon from telebridge station VK5ZAI. As you may be aware, Mike is a pretty new ham and did an outstanding job with the students at Erie. At Erie, Jim Gavio (Planetarium Director)
was assisted by Ron N3BXL, Paul N3UMM, Jim WW3S, and Jim KB3IXG.

From the SAREX mailing List:The ARISS team is pleased to announce Expedition 9's first school contact. International Space Station astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, will talk to students at the Erie Planetarium in Erie, Pennsylvania on Tuesday, 25 May.
The contact is scheduled to begin about 1801 UTC or 2:01 Eastern Daylight Time. The space station crew will be using the callsign NA1SS.

* Copied from SAREX bulletin board*
All,
This is an update regarding the K6DUE ISS Commemorative Event Certificate.
The certificate printing was completed a few weeks ago and the certificates were distributed to the international delegates at the ARISS Meeting that has held as ESA ESTEC, Netherlands on March 26-27. The international delegates planned to forward these to their QSL distributors.
In the USA, I understand that the certificates were mailed out this past week. So those that made contacts should see these in the mail soon.
From a statistics standpoint, approximately 130 hams will be receiving certificates. Congratulations!!

73, Frank Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chairman
AMSAT-NA V.P for Human Spaceflight Programs

Space Stations QRV at:
24-04-2004 & 25-APRIL-2004

UTC TIMES!!!!!!
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ISS SCHOOL CONTACT:
Saterday 24-APRIL-2004 7:50 UTC
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ISS CONTACT WITH VERON:
Sunday 25-APRIL-2004 8:20 UTC

Copied this info from the SAREX bulletin board.

The ARISS team is pleased to announce that the next school contact with the International Space Station astronauts will take place Thursday, 1 April between the ISS crew and students at the “College Georges Brassens of Saint Mard" and the “Jacques Prevert" school. The contact
is scheduled to bring about 1827 UTC or 2027 local daylight time.

A school in the Outer Hebrides is understood to have become the first in Scotland to talk directly with the International Space Station (ISS).