An International Space Station Expedition 16 ARISS contact has been planned with the Malaysian Group of Schools #5, National Planetarium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Saturday, October 20, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 14:50 UTC.

Station 9M2RPN will call NA1SS at approximately 14:50 UTC.

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

1. How does food taste in space?
2. What type of drinks do you have aboard?
3. Can you light a candle in the ISS?
4. Do you celebrate holidays in space?
5. Do you think space tourism will become a future reality?
6. Can you see the constellations from the ISS?
7. Are there computer games on board the ISS?
8. What time do you sleep and wake up?
9. Do you sweat in the ISS?
10. What is your normal routine in space?
11. Do you dream in space and what was your first dream?
12. Are you allowed to cook any food in space?
13. Can you see whether features such as Hurricanes or Lightning storms from the ISS?
14. How many times do you go around the earth in a day?
15. What is the maximum human capacity of the ISS?
16. How many people are there on board the ISS currently?
17. What is the first thing you will do when you have landed?
18. What do you like to eat in space?
19. How do you brush your teeth?
20. Are there any message for us and other Malaysians that you would like to give from the ISS?

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).