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<DIV align=center><FONT color=#666666 size=1>ESA astronaut Frank de Winne
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<H1>Astronaut Frank De Winne talks to Ciencia Viva Museum in Lisbon, Portugal
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>On Thursday, October 1, the <STRONG>Ciencia Viva
Museum</STRONG> in Lisbon, Portugal, performed an ARISS contact with astronaut
<STRONG>Frank de Winne, ON1DWN</STRONG>. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The contact was a telebridge between onboard station NA1SS
and the ARISS telebridge ground station ON4ISS in Belgium, operated by Philippe
Van Houte, ON5PV.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Gaston Bertels ON4WF was <BR>the moderator of the
contact.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The Pavilion of Knowledge - Pavilho do Conhecimento -
Ciencia Viva is a National Museum of Science and Technology in Lisbon. It is an
interactive science and technology museum that aims to make science accessible
to all, stimulating experimentation and exploration of the physical world by
developing science and technology awareness-raising projects for the Portuguese
people.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The ARISS contact at Ciencia Viva was a major event within
the nationwide celebrated Space Week from October 4 to 10.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>For the ARISS contact, students aged between 14 and 16
years from different schools in Amadora, one of the main satellite cities in the
outskirts of Lisbon, asked questions to the astronaut. The participating
students have been working on Space projects for two years and they were highly
motivated to do this science-related activity.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The contact was prepared by the president of
AMRAD/AMSAT-CT, Mariano Gonçalvez CT1XI, and the telebridge contact coordinator
Fabiano Moser CT/PY5RX. John, AG9D, did the feeding into the AMSAT Echolink
server.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The audience was about 300 people. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>At 14.15 UTC, i.e. 15.15 local time, contact with NA1SS
was established by ON4ISS. The astronaut Frank De Winne answered all the 20
questions. He described life on the ISS in one word only: fantastic.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The audio from the ISS was excellent all the time. There
was enough time left for exchanging greetings.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>The contact was covered by the national newspaper DN.
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<P><FONT face=Verdana>A video is available at <BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.cvtv.pt/imagens/index.asp?id_tag=15&id_video=408"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Verdana>http://www.cvtv.pt/imagens/index.asp<BR>?id_tag=15&id_video=408</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana>Congratulations to the Ciencia Viva team!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana><STRONG><EM>73, Peter Kofler,
IN3GHZ</EM></STRONG><BR>ARISS mentor</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>