Kuwaiti Students Will Call for the Astronaut Next Week

The Scientific Center of Kuwait in Salmiyah, Kuwait has been approved for a contact with the International Space Station via the telebridge station VK5ZAI in Australia. It is planned for Wednesday June 28 at 11:26 UTC (02:26 pm local time). The audio from this contact will be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377) and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers, and into the IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010. It will also be available on the Discovery Reflector’s companion web site, http://www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls

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

1. What are the effects of zero gravity on your body?
2. How far are you from Earth?
3. How do you feel when you are in space?
4. How is the weather up there?
5. Will there ever be human life on the moon?
6. What types of experiments are you running and how does micro-gravity affect them?
7. How do the stars look like from the ISS?
8. What are your feelings while spacewalking?
9. How do you communicate in space?
10. What do you miss most while living on ISS?
11. What is the view like from the ISS?
12. Are there any smells inside the ISS?
13. What are you in charge of on the ISS?
14. Why and how did you become an astronaut?
15. What is your timetable on board up there?
16. How can you cope without gravity in space?
17. How do you use toilet in space? Where does waste go?
18. What is your favorite activity when you are in space?
19. What noises do you hear on board?
20. Does your body have a feeling for daytime and nighttime?
21. What do you feel during take off?
22. What kind of food do you eat on the ISS?


[Source: ARISS]