Escolas de Oeiras contactam ISS a 26/02

sexta-feira, fevereiro 23, 2007

Vamos lá ver se á terceira é de vez!! Na próxima Segunda feira, dia 26 de Fevereiro, pelas 15:51UTC os alunos das três escolas de Oeiras vão tentar contactar a Estação Espacial Internacional. O contacto será provavelmente com a astronauta Suni Williams (KD5PLB) e efectuado desde o Observatório Aeroespacial de Oeiras. Durante o contacto (em Inglês), os estudantes irão tentar colocar as seguintes perguntas:

1. Before leaving for any mission in space, you have many months of preparation. Is the reality very different from the test you go through on Earth?
2. Isn’t it difficult to live in a small closed space during so many time?
3. What kind of food do you eat?
4. Is there any process of recycling water in space? If so, what is it?
5. How do you manage to keep the level of oxygen steady inside the spaceship?
6. How do you get rid of your waste?
7. Do you have any trouble in falling asleep? How do you distinguish if it’s day or night?
8. What’s the official language on the ISS?
9. What do you feel when you see the Earth from the space? What’s the feeling?
10. Isn’t it boring only to see stars, planets and space?
11. What do you miss the most when you are in space?
12.The relationship between you is strictly professional or have you become friends? Have you ever had any arguments? How did you solve them?
13. How can you repair the spaceship if it is somehow damaged?
14. For how long can you stay in space? Which is the maximum length of time? Is there a limit for the number of an astronaut’s voyages to space?
15. When you came back to Earth after a space voyage how do you adapt to gravity? Do you need any external help? What kind of help?
16. What kind of scientific research are you doing now?
17. What’s the importance of space research to scientific knowledge and technical progress?
18. What do you think about other planets colonization? Will it be possible or is it only fiction?