| ARISS: Erweiterte Realschule, Weiskirchen, Germany |
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Station DN1ERW in Germanly will call NA1SS at approximately 13:34 UTC. ERS Weiskirchen is a general education school where the pupils can achieve a standard and secondary graduation. The school participates as one of 11 pilot schools from the federal states Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen in the project ”Innovative all-day school”. As special example concerning the project, the school has successfully performed the launch of a balloon to the stratosphere in cooperation with the radio club “DARC Ortsverbandes Wadern, Q21”. Following this contact with radio technology, a core-team of interested pupils has been formed. With the support of radio amateurs, a radio station has been set up and a radio club has been founded. Several students have passed examinations and are now amateur radio licensees, operating with their own callsign. Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
For everyone's information and future reference. When any ARISS event is supported through the IRLP "Discovery" Reflector 9010, audio is automatically streamed to the Internet. It is then available via the "Discovery" Reflectors companion web site www.discoveryreflector.ca . Once on its main page, select "Audio Library" (left sidebar). The prompt to join the audio stream is posted at the top of this page. More directly the URL is as follows: www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at 'NextContact'. ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). |

An International Space Station Expedition 14/15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at the Erweiterte Realschule, Weiskirchen, Germany on Saturday, May 5, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 13:34 UTC.