An educational radio contact is planned with Oakwood High School, Morgan Hill, CA, direct via KK6OAK.
The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS and the scheduled crewmember is Jonathan (Jonny) Kim KJ5HKP, the ARISS mentor is AJ9N .
Contact is go for: Friday 25 April 2025, 17:22:58 UTC, 58 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 Oakwood High School students:
1. How do you maintain your mental health during these long missions?
2. Where is your favorite place in the International Space Station?
3. What is an interesting piece of equipment on the ISS that we probably don’t know about?
4. Did you ever doubt whether you could become an astronaut?
5. What is the first thing you will do when you get back on the ground?
6. When did you first feel like a real astronaut?
7. After returning to Earth, what do you think you will miss the most about being in space?
8. Has being in space changed how you feel about Earth and how small we are as humans?
9. What controls and buttons are really important on the ISS?
10. How do you maintain a consistent sleep schedule with more than one sunrise each day?
11. If you could give a message to your high school self, what would it be?
12. Is space scary?
13. What do you specialize in and how did this help you to become an astronaut?
14. What experiments are you assisting with on the ISS?
15. Why does the ISS have over 50 computers?
16. When did your passion start for space?
17. Did you bring anything to the ISS and if so what did you bring?
18. What do you do if there is a medical emergency?
19. When you look down on Earth, what do you feel?
20. What is the hardest thing to do in zero gravity that you can do on earth without thinking?