For immediate release:
The following exciting announcement is from the Mildred Hall School website :
“Mildred Hall School is excited to announce that its students will be connecting with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques live aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, May 3, 2019. The event will start at the school at 11:30 am, followed by a live question and answer period with Saint-Jacques starting at 12:30 p.m MT. Students have prepared questions (see below) and are excited to connect with him! Mildred Hall School would like to thank everyone involved for making this great opportunity available to them.”
Contact information:
An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Mildred Hall School in Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories on Friday, May 3. The scheduled astronaut is David St-Jacques, KG5FYI.
As indicated above, the event will begin at Mildred Hall School at 11:30 am MT and the actual contact is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:30 pm MT (18:30 UTC). It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and LU8YY. The contact should be audible over Argentina and adjacent areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.
Additional information:
Mildred Hall, a Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8 School, is located in the heart of downtown Yellowknife with Frame Lake and its beautiful trail almost sitting in its backyard. It houses 271 students from the ages of 4 to 14 with very diverse backgrounds and cultures. Almost 80% of the students are Indigenous, so it boasts programming that is relevant to hands-on learning, science inquiry, outdoor experiential opportunities and the instruction of English, French and Dogrib. Our basic beliefs revolve around the acronym SOAR- Share what you have (S), Ownership (O), Achieve your very best (A) and Respect everyone and everything around you. (R).
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1) Why is space travel so important to astronauts and other humans?
2) I saw a picture you took of the northern lights and we have a lot of them over here in Yellowknife. Are you able to fly through the northern lights?
3) How do you see the sun from where you are? Is there a sunrise or sunset? Is it different to how we see it on earth?
4) How long are you there and how long can a person stay in space? Does it affect your body in anyway, causing irreversible consequences?
5) Do you constantly work up there? Do you do anything for fun? If so, what?
6) What is your favourite thing about being in space?
7) What is the most challenging thing about being in space?
8) Does your hair and nails grow at the same rate in space? Is there anything different about the way they grow?
9) If there is an emergency on the space station and you have to escape, is there an emergency pod? If not what happens?
10) What is gravitational time dilation?
11) How do you keep time in space? Are you in a time zone?
12) Do you think humans will ever live on another planet?
13) What were you thinking when you blasted off?
14) What is the strangest thing you have ever seen or experienced in space?
15) Is it as silent as movies show? Why?
16) What do you miss the most while you are there?
For more information on ARISS please visit:
RAC ARISS webpage: https://wp.rac.ca/ariss/
Main ARISS website: http://www.ariss.org
Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director
RAC MarCom Director