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by: ARRL de WD1CKS - Fri, 2 Dec 2022 13:21 UTC

12/02/2022

Students at Five Bridges Junior High School in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia,
Canada, finally had an opportunity to talk with an astronaut onboard the
International Space Station (ISS) via ham radio.

On Wednesday, November 23, 2022, the students were able to talk with Astronaut
Josh Cassada, KI5CRH, for about 11 minutes as the ISS passed over northern
Europe.

The students were anxious to ask questions ranging from curiosities about the
astronauts' work schedules to concerns about radiation in outer space.
Astronaut Cassada was asked about his favorite part of training for his ISS
mission, and he replied, "All of it!"

The contact was made possible with amateur radio volunteers at the Amateur
Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) ground station in Casale
Monferrato, Italy, using the call sign IK1SLD, and was the 1,495 contact made
since the ARISS program began.

In the US, ARISS[1] includes support from ARRL[2], AMSAT, NASA, NASA's Space
Communication and Navigation (SCaN) organization and the Center for the
Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS).

[1] http://ariss.org/
[2] http://www.arrl.org/amateur-radio-on-the-international-space-station

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