An International Space Station Expedition 14/15 ARISS contact has been planned with students at the Colegio La Salle, Palencia, Spain on Friday, June 8, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:55 UTC.

Telebridge station W6SRJ in Santa Rosa, California will call NA1SS at approximately 10:55 UTC.

Colegio La Salle is a college in city of Palencia, in the Cerraro region. Palencia is the capital city of the province of Castilla and Leon, at 235 km from Madrid.. The city has 82.263 inhabitants.

The school counts 150 pupils aged 6 to 18 years. Special efforts are undertaken to move the students closer to the technological and scientific world. The school maintains a close relationship with the local astronomy society.

For this event, schoolchildren of several schools visit the college and assist to the space rendez-vous.

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

1. At what moment did you discover that you wanted to become an astronaut?
2. What did you have to study to become an astronaut?
3. Did you need to speak other languages than English to be selected for this mission?
4. Has your country offered you facilities to become an astronaut?
5. Now that you are in space, what do you miss most?
6. What is taken into account when selecting individuals for a mission to space?
7. Do you get more tired when you are in space than when you are on earth?
8. How many hours a day do you have to work when you are on the space station?
9. In your free time, do you play cards or something? Can you watch TV?
10. Have you ever seen a flying saucer or any space ship from another planet?
11. Do you listen to music?
12. What do you feel when you are floating for so long a time?
13. What did you have today for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
14. How many calories do you get everyday?
15. What is the way for you to be able to differentiate days from nights?
16. Are there different rooms in the space ship or is there only one in which you spend all the time?
17. Have you made any important discovery lately?
18. Can your family get in touch with you through the phone?
19. Can you connect to the Internet?
20. Can you take a shower in the space station?

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).