An International Space Station Expedition 15 ARISS contact has been planned with the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center, Richmond Hill, New York on Tuesday, August 7, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 13:25 UTC.

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Proposed questions for the One Stop Richmond Hill Community Center

1. What was the biggest challenge the crew faced during any of the spacewalks while you were working on the ISS?
2. What is your favorite foods in space and does chocolate taste strange in space?
3. How often are you able to email your family from space?
4. What activity is the most fun as you float around the space station?
5. What is your favorite module of the space station and why?
6. What did you bring with you to remind you of family and home?
7. What are you doing with robots on the space station? We notice it is on your list of activities.
8. It is exciting up there. What do you do if you have trouble going to sleep?
9. Do you ever share meals and what kind of food is your favorite?
10. What do you eat for breakfast -- and can you change your mind about what you want to eat?
11. We know you have private family conference time. How long do you talk to your family and can you see them?
12. What surprises have there been? What did not go as expected?
13. How did you first become interested in space science?
14. Do your children want to travel in space like you and why?
15. Has any of you gotten sick in space and what did you do about it?
16. Do you have Internet on the ISS and what video games are your favorite (if you have any)?
17. How do you get news up in space? Can you watch any of it and does mission control send any news to you?
18. When you return home, what is the first thing you want to do?
19. What food do you miss most up in space?
20. What sports can you play up there in microgravity?
21. Fire safety is important here. What has to be done when you inspect the ISS smoke detectors?
22. How is trash prepared for return to Earth? Is there a compactor?
23. Is the ISS going to become a national laboratory and what kind of experiments will be most important?
24. What fun things will you be leaving behind for the next crew to use?

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 http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada).