| The digital recording below was made on
February 20, 2004 at approximately 18:28 UTC in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, using
an ICOM PCR-100 computer controlled receiver with a Ringo AR-2 vertical
antenna up about 20 feet. It was sampled and recorded at 8 kb/s,
8000 Hz mono using the PCM wav file format on a 2.1 GHz PC. The
downlink frequency was 145.800 KHz.
The recording starts with Mike Foale calling WA8CWD, the call sign of the ground station at Glenwood Elementary School. I got the impression that the school was having some type of technical problem as most of the ISS school contact start with the ground station call for the ISS as it is first approaching. Though edited out of the recording below, Mike was heard calling for WA8CWD for nearly two minutes before he finally got a response. When he did the ISS was close to max elevation for the pass. Mike said he was ready for the first question and asked if the students were ready. |
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Below are the questions the students asked Mike Foale: |
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| How do you communicate when both of you speak different languages? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How often do you get to talk to your family? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What are some of the experiments you are working on? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What have we learned from some of the past experiments? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Are you worried about going into space? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do you get bored being in the same place for so long... What do you do in space to have fun? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What kinds of food do you get to eat in space... Do they taste good? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why did you become a cosmonaut and what kind of training did you have to complete? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What kind of training did you do to become an astronaut? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What do each of you like most about your job? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What is the most difficult thing about your job? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How long does it take to get ready to go into space? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Who inspired you to become an astronaut? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
WAV file of Glenwood Elementary School ISS Contact (approx 1.7 MB)
(Right click the link above and use save-as to download the WAV file to your PC)