An educational radio contact is planned with TEACH-NW Charter School, Springfield, OR, direct via KJ7NLL.
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS and the scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB; the ARISS mentor is N7GZT.
Contact is go for: Friday 10 October 2024, 18:27:52 UTC ,57 deg.; downlink signals from ISS will be audible above areas within the ISS footprint on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM. RX only! (Credit: AMSAT.)
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Proposed questions generated by the TEACH-NW Charter School:
1. Does the International Space Station make its own oxygen for the astronauts?
2. What kind of plant experiments happen on the International Space Station?
3. Are there any projects you have worked on that make travel to other planets a possibility?
4. How do you communicate with the other astronauts if everyone speaks different languages?
5. What is your mission while you are up there?
6. What does your day-to-day look like at the International Space Station?
7. How has spending time in space changed your perspective on life on Earth?
8. What is your favorite astronomical sight that you’ve gotten to see that is not the Earth?
9. Do astronauts ever get bored in space?
10. Is your favorite food from Earth something they were able to dehydrate and send to space?
11. What is your favorite study that you have been a part of?
12. What is the most challenging thing about being an astronaut?
13. Throughout your whole experience of becoming and being an astronaut, if there were to be one thing you could change, what would that be?
14. Why did you decide to become an astronaut?
15. Have you seen the Aurora Borealis from space?
16. How does it feel to be weightless?
17. Who is the youngest person up there?
18. Have any astronauts brought a pet to the ISS?
19. If you eat or drink something, does your body digest it the same way as it would on Earth?
20. What is your favorite part of being an astronaut?