An educational radio contact is planned with Coastal Community School, Satellite Beach, FL, direct via KD4GPI .
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS and the scheduled crewmember is Sunita Williams KD5PLB; the ARISS mentor is AJ9N.
Contact is go for: Wed 30 Oct 2024 13:42:01 UTC, 42 deg.; downlink signals from ISS will be audible above areas within the ISS footprint on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM. RX only! (Credit: AMSAT.)
Proposed questions generated by the Coastal Community School students:
1. Do you want to go to Mars or back to the moon first?
2. What do you miss most about Earth when you are on the ISS?
3. Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet?
4. How is what you are doing today in space going to benefit me as a 2nd grader in the future?
5. What is your favorite project on the ISS?
6. What are your 3 favorite things about being in space?
7. What is the hardest thing to do in space?
8. Why did you choose to go to space?
9. Describe what it felt like to launch into space both physically and emotionally.
10. How does re-entry into the atmosphere feel different than liftoff?
11. What was the most challenging part of training to go into space?
12. Did your childhood interests motivate you to seek a space-related career?
13. I enjoy 3D printing. What kinds of things and how frequently do you 3D print on the ISS?
14. What is the scariest moment you had in space?
15. If the ISS is over Cape Canaveral during a liftoff, can you see the rocket coming at you?
16. What current experiment are you working on?
17. How many spacewalks have you done and what is your favorite part of a spacewalk?
18. What is one thing you didn’t take that you wish you would have?
19. What do you do for fun?
20. What happens when you get sick in space?
21. How is the real ISS different from what we see in the movies?
22. What do you hope to have learned when your time on the ISS is complete?
23. What is your favorite thing to eat while on the ISS?
24. Do you celebrate holidays on the ISS? If so, how?