Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.632c&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
More than 40 missions over five years will be required to assemble the International Space Station in orbit. The astronauts and cosmonauts will work hard on these missions, but they plan to take some time off for educational activities with schools. Amateur Radio on the International Space Station represents the first Educational Outreach program that is flying on ISS. NASA's Division of Education is a major supporter and sponsor of this student outreach activity on the International Space Station. This meets NASA's educational mission objective: "To inspire the next generation of explorers...as only NASA can." As the International Space Station takes its place in the heavens, the amateur radio community is doing its part by helping to enrich the experience of those visiting and living on the station as well as the students on Earth. Through ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), students on Earth have a once in a lifetime opportunity--to talk to the crew on-board ISS. Using amateur radio equipment set up in their classroom, students get a first-hand feel of what it is like to live and work in space. Each school gets a 10 minute question and answer interview with the on-orbit crew using a ground station located in their classroom or through a remote ground station. The ARISS opportunity has proven itself as a tremendous educational boon to teachers and students. Through ARISS, students learn about orbit dynamics, Doppler shift, radio communications, and working with the press. Since its first flight in 1983, amateur radio has flown on more than two-dozen space shuttle missions. Dozens of astronauts have used the predecessor program called SAREX (The Space Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment) to talk to thousands of kids in school and to their families on Earth while they were in orbit. The primary goals of the ARISS program are fourfold: 1) educational outreach through crew contacts with schools, 2) random contacts with the amateur radio public, 3) scheduled contacts with the astronauts' friends and families and 4) ISS-based communications experimentation. By June 2002 over 65 schools have been selected from 10 countries for scheduled contacts with the orbiting ISS crews. Ten or more students at each school ask the astronauts questions. The nature of these contacts embodies the primary goal of the ARISS program -- to excite students' interest in science, technology and amateur radio. This paper will discuss the educational outreach capabilities of ARISS, some of the challenges that the ARISS-international team of volunteers overcame to bring this first educational activity on ISS into operation, and its plans for the future. It will also summarize the networking opportunities which expand each school contact, including local school media events, WorldCom support, MSNBC coverage, and internet access. In addition, educational outreach is extended through joint projects with IMAX-3D, Space Center Houston teacher training, and NASA internet activities.
Bauer Frank H.
Brown Daniel
Conley C. L.
White Russel
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