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Nine young people from the Zwönitzer Gymnasium are allowed to chat live with astronauts at the ISS Space Station.
With Heiko Meier (57), anticipation increases. For more than two years, the president of the local badociation Aue-Schwarzenberg of the German Amateur Radio Club had made an effort to allow students of the Matthes Enderlein Gymnasium in Zwönitz to talk to astronauts aboard the ISS International Space Station. Now, it's clear: in August, German astronaut Alexander Gerst will discuss with them live.
"We received the first week of school from August 13 to 17," says Meier. The day and the exact time will be announced at the end of the month. For 12 minutes, the window of opportunity is to ask questions "Astro-Alex". "But we will share time with a school in Kaiserslautern, and after two questions we will change." The interview of the space is carried out by the students of the auditorium. The necessary technology is implemented in duplicate. To avoid a failure, as he explains.
In Zwönitzer, the Zwönitzer has been preparing high school students for months now. For this purpose, a working group of seven boys and two girls has been formed, in which is formed for radio contact. At the end of June, he went to the Airbus Space Center in Bremen earlier this month for a field day in the Schneeberg district, where the young people made their first contact with the radio satellites. In addition, the construction of a school radio station is on the program with antennas and automatic control.
For technology and excursions, a total of 12,000 euros was needed. Half contributed to the school and district office, the other Meier organized a crowdfunding campaign, so collect donations on the net. "I've also given something privately," he says.
Chances of receiving radio contact with the ISS are rare for individuals. Normally, the space station only has official contacts with the space agencies of the Earth. But for radio amateurs, there is a special program. According to NASA, about 250,000 students and students from around the world have participated in this program since its launch in 2000.
Zwönitz students can now also transmit their radio to the ISS. Your questions are already known. they had to be submitted in advance in German and English. So we are: "Which time zone lives on the ISS?" Another: "Is there a regular bedtime?" They also prepared questions on space debris problems and the taste of food. On the answers? May you be curious. Meier says, "It's going to be exciting."
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