Un contact Radioamateur est prévu le 26/05/2023 vers 17H31 UTC (19H31 heure de Paris).

Il aura lieu entre l’astronaute John Shoffner (KO4MJC) et le Children’s Inn at NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.


Le contact sera en télébridge sur 145.800 MHz (+/-3 KHz de doppler) en FM étroite.
Il sera conduit par une station Belge (ON4ISS) et donc audible depuis la France.


Le contact sera conduit en Anglais.

Voici les questions :

1. What do you do to keep the food that you eat from going bad?

2. Before our solar system consisted of 9 planets. Why are we now discounting Pluto as a planet in our solar system?

3. What type of materials have you used while experimenting during your mission?

4. Has ISS discovered anything about life, vegetation, or water in its studies throughout the years?

5. What would happen if the magnetosphere that protects Earth stopped working?

6. What is your favorite part about being an astronaut?

7. How much training do you need to have in order to prepare for a space launch?

8. How does time feel in space? Does it affect you in any way?

9. How long have you been out in space?

10. What made you want to go into space? What are some risk factors you take into consideration?

11. Can you describe what liftoff is like? Do you get nervous?

12. What kind of things do you experiment with? Plants? Seeds? Other things?

13. What is the most interesting or beautiful thing that you have experienced in space?

14. How do you go to the bathroom in space?

15. How do you feel physically in space? Will it be hard readjusting when you come back from space?

16. What kind of food do you miss from home that you don’t have in space?

17. What is your day-to-day routine in space?

18. Is it comfortable sleeping in space?

19. What made you want to become an astronaut?

20. What is the most important skill to have as an astronaut?

21. What kind of activities do you do in space? Or when you’re on earth?

Bonne écoute 🙂

Un contact Radioamateur est prévu le 25/05/2023 vers 15H07 UTC (17H07 heure de Paris).

Il aura lieu entre l’astronaute John Shoffner (KO4MJC) et le Middlesboro School System, Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA



Le contact sera en télébridge sur 145.800 MHz (+/-3 KHz de doppler) en FM étroite.

Il sera conduit par une station Italienne (IK1SLD) et donc audible depuis la France.

Le contact sera conduit en Anglais.

Voici les questions :

1. Can you describe your initial emotions during your entry into space and docking to the station?

2. How does your body adapt to microgravity and what will it be like readjusting to Earth’s gravity?

3. What types of experiments have you been[SM1] [SM2] [Ma3] a part of while on board the space station?

4. Will you have any leisure time aboard the space station and if so, what types of things can you do?

5. Can you describe the suits you have to wear on the mission and how they help you during your mission?

6. What is your personal “why” for taking part in this mission?

7. What has it felt like being able to come from a small town and live out your dream of traveling to space?

8. What has it been like to sleep in space and how do you do it?

9. Can you describe the food and how you eat while in space?

10. What is your daily schedule and routine like?

11. What has been the most impactful thing you’ve seen or done so far?

12. How will your time aboard the space station help astronauts on future missions?

13. Can you describe the launch experience?

14. Do you have the ability to communicate with your family back on Earth? If so, how?

15. What advice would you give a student like me who is interested in becoming an astronaut and traveling to space?

Bonne écoute 🙂

Un contact Radioamateur est prévu le 19/05/2023 vers 18H20 UTC (20H20 heure de Paris).

Il aura lieu entre l’astronaute Warren HOBURG (KB3HTZ) et le Webb Bridge Middle School, Alpharetta, Georgia, USA



Le contact sera en télébridge sur 145.800 MHz (+/-3 KHz de doppler) en FM étroite.
Il sera conduit par une station Italienne (IK1SLD) et donc audible depuis la France.


Le contact sera conduit en Anglais.

Voici les questions :

1. What was your first mission and how did it make you feel?
2. What was the hardest and easiest part and challenges of becoming an astronaut?
3. What is the weirdest thing you have encountered in space?
4. What is the most profound lesson you learned from your experience in space, and how has it changed
your perspective on life?
5. How major is the difference between daily life in space and earth? Would things in space like gravity
change your daily routines?
6. If space does not have the same gravitational pull as the earth, then how does your body stay healthy
and stable?
7. If I were to become an astronaut, what would you tell me you wish that you knew when you started
your career?
8. What is training like? Do a lot of people quit?
9. When you’ve just left the atmosphere, and you can see earth and all the other planets from afar, what
do you feel? Do you have a sense of love for the universe and how amazing it is?
10. Does it hurt when you go back into the Earth’s atmosphere after you’ve gotten used to little to no
gravity?
11. I have a friend that told me that astronauts faint a lot after they come back to Earth, is this true?
12. What do you do when you get bored in the spacecraft?
13. Has there ever been a moment where there was a challenging situation and you and your other
astronaut friends aboard the ISS has to work together to solve the problem?
14. What would you do if your spaceship was suddenly going down and you weren’t able to control it?
15. What happens if someone drifts out to space? Are there emergency protocols or anything to do to
save them?
16. If your nose is itchy on a spacewalk, what do you do?
17. As you are blasting off, what does it feel like, is it nerve racking?
18. Can you communicate with your family while you are in space? If so, how?
19. How do you set your sleep schedule?
20. How do you plan to take out the trash in space?

Bonne écoute 🙂