An International Space Station Expedition 14/15 ARISS school contact has been planned with students at the Toyon Elementary School, San Jose, California, USA on Monday, May 21, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 17:21 UTC.

Station K6MFW in San Jose, California, USA will call NA1SS at approximately 17:21 UTC.

Toyon is located in the northeast foothills of San Jose

Our population is approximately 470 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, which includes two special day classes.

Our diverse student population celebrates the many cultures and ethnicity of our district. Cultural diversity at Toyon includes African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Filipino, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and White. The primary language spoken at home includes: Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Punjabi, Hindi, Samoan, and Tagalog. Toyon is a NASA Explorer School.

Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. When you were a small child, did you dream of being an astronaut?
2. How many years did you have to go to school to become an astronaut?
3. Why did you choose to be an astronaut when you could have chosen an easier job?
4. How does it feel to leave the earth's atmosphere?
5. What is it like to float in space?
6. Do you still wear a spacesuit even if you're in the space station?
7. Is it fun to work in space?
8. What is your favorite thing to do in space?
9. How long can you live in space?
10. Have you done a space walk? What did you do?
11. How do you know when it is night or day?
12. How many planets can you see from the space station?
13. Have you seen anything weird in space?
14. What have you learned by living in space?
15. Do you speak other languages on the space station?
16. Does it get hard for you to stay up there with the same people all the time?
17. What do you miss most when you are up in the space station?
18. What are some challenges you face in space?
19. Do you regret going through all the training and hard work to go to space, or was it worth it?
20. How many years will you stay an astronaut?

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).