THURSDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2009 : ARISS CONTACT WITH SCHOOL IN DE HAAN, BELGIUM.
The contact is scheduled at 07:42 UTC, which is 09:42 CEST. Please correct previous announcement.
FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2009 : ARISS CONTACT PLANNED WITH SCHOOL IN SEEHEIM, GERMANY.
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Community School Bergstrasse in Seeheim, Germany on Friday 4th September 2009. The contact is scheduled at 20:10 UTC, which is 22;10 CEST.
The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
The ARISS contact will be distributed on EchoLink *AMSAT* and *JK1ZRW* conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Channel 9010.
Students aged between 14 and 18 will meet astronauts, spacecraft operators and engineers at ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, during the "Night of Stars". They will ask questions about the education needed to reach the sky.
The highlight of the night will be an ARISS live contact, giving the students the occasion to ask their questions to an astronaut onboard the ISS, possibly CSA astronaut Robert Thirsk VA3CS. ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald will be guest of honour. The event is supported by the ESA Communication Office in Germany.
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