{"id":33170,"date":"2023-10-20T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T11:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=33170"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T19:34:00","slug":"ariss-contact-with-kent-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2023\/10\/20\/ariss-contact-with-kent-primary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"ARISS contact with Kent primary school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpetersthanet.co.uk\/\"><strong>St Peter-In-Thanet CE Junior School<\/strong><\/a> in Broadstairs, Kent had an \u2018out of this world\u2019 experience this week, with an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariss.org\/\">ARISS-UK<\/a> <\/strong>contact between the school and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, KI5WSL on board the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>It was an exciting and inspiring day for all involved. RSGB Board Chair Stewart Bryant, G3YSX attended the event and met ESA reserve astronaut Meganne Christian, who encouraged the children to \u2018dream big\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The morning\u2019s events can be watched on the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=lnPlIHGV-YE\"><strong>ARISS YouTube channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured on local BBC and ITV news programmes that evening. You can listen to coverage on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0ggzcyn\"><strong>BBC Radio Kent<\/strong><\/a> (from 2:39:40) and read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/meridian\/2023-10-18\/school-children-speak-to-astronaut-aboard-international-space-station\"><strong>ITV news<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children at St Peter-In-Thanet CE Junior School in Broadstairs, Kent had an \u2018out of this world\u2019 experience this week, with an ARISS-UK contact between the school and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, KI5WSL on board the International Space Station. It was an exciting and inspiring day for all involved. RSGB Board Chair Stewart Bryant, G3YSX attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines","category-rsgb-notices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}