An educational radio contact is planned with Canadian Elementary School Maple Bear, Sofia, Bulgaria, direct via LZ1KRN .
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled crewmember is Don Pettit KD5MDT, the ARISS mentor is IN3GHZ.
Contact is go for: Monday 24 March 2025, 14:23:27 UTC, 42 deg.; downlink signals from ISS will be audible above areas within the ISS footprint on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM, please remember: RX only! (Credit: AMSAT.)
Proposed questions generated by the Canadian Elementary School Maple Bear students:
1. Where do you keep your ice cream?
2. What do you do in your free time on the International Space Station?
3. Which subject in school helped you the most to become an astronaut?
4. What is the most interesting experiment you have conducted on the International Space Station?
5. I heard you do experiments with fish in aquariums. What happens to them because of gravity?
6. Have you seen something that nobody else has seen?
7. How do you sleep in space?
8. How many years did you train to go to the ISS?
9. How powerful is the engine of your spacecraft?
10. Does your voice sound the same in space as it does here?
11. Did you find space interesting as a child?
12. What was the most interesting thing you learned during your training? And how long did you train?
13. What kind of physical challenges did you have to overcome on Earth to prepare for space?
14. How do you have access to electricity and wi-fi?
15. What is the strangest thing you’ve seen orbiting the Earth?
16. Does time feel like it passes by faster in space?
17. What is the furthest you would want to go in space?
18. What does the ISS smell like?
19. Does every spacecraft fly out of NASA?
20. Is there trash in space, where does it accumulate, and how much is there? 21. What do you drink there?