This will be a direct ground to ISS contact, not routed through Nasa's communications network. As a result, the total session will last about 12 minutes, the time it takes the ISS to travel from horizon to horizon. Six students will get an opportunity to ask questions. In the dry run, I heard the questions and they are quite good.
The conversation will be broadcast live through a couple local radio repeaters. Other Amateur Radio volunteers will be positioned at schools around SouthEast Idaho, so other schools can listen in. I will be positioned at Ponderosa Elementary School In Meridian, relaying the contact to two kindergarten classes.
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