An International Space Station Expedition 14/15 ARISS contact has been planned with students at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska, Kenai, Alaska, USA on Saturday, July 7, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 19:43 UTC.

Station KL7XJ in Alaska will call NA1SS at approximately 19:43 UTC.

The Challenger Learning Center of Alaska is a vital and valuable educational resource for our state and is recognized as a strong component of our state educational system. Our center provides a highly successful on-site and distance learning environment unlike any other in Alaska. We inspire students to study science, math and technology through a medium of space and earth sciences education. Students are encouraged to pursue higher educational goals and opportunities that will better prepare them for success. This highly developed and technologically advanced facility provides educational opportunities tailor-made to the geographical diversity of our state, while meeting the statewide academic standards.

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

1. Do you believe in life on other planets?
2. What do you do for entertainment in Space?
3. Can you see constellations better when up in space?
4. I heard that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. Are there any other man made or natural features that you have seen from the space station?
5. What’s sleeping like in space when there is no gravity to hold you or your sheets down?
6. Does living in space affect your hair or fingernail growth?
7. Does it feel any different floating upside-down when there is no gravity?
8. How is the space station protected from objects flying around in space?
9. What has been your most exciting experience on the space station?
10. What do you miss most from earth besides you family and a home cooked meal?
11. Does food taste different up in space?
12. How is the digestive process affected by the lack of gravity?

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).