An educational radio contact is planned with Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, NC, telebridge via ON4ISS. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be OR4ISS and the scheduled crewmember is Jack Hathaway KJ5NIV, the ARISS mentor is K4RGK.
Contact is go for: Wed 23 Sept 2026,16:51:40 UTC 80 deg. Downlink signals from ISS will be audible above areas within the ISS footprint on 145.800 MHz narrowband FM; the conversation will be in English, RX only! (Credit: AMSAT.)
Proposed questions generated by the Atrium Health Levine Children’s Hospital students:
1. If you could bring one toy to space, what would be the most fun to play with in Micro-gravity?
2. What is the most surprising thing you’ve seen while looking out the space station window?
3. If the ISS could have a pet, what animal do you think you would love to have in space?
4. What everyday activity on Earth do you miss the most while you’re in space?
5. If you could design a new room for the space station, what would it be used for?
6. What is your favorite planet to look at from the space station?
7. If you get sick while in space, what happens?
8. What does training look like to become an astronaut?
9. What object floats around the funniest when accidentally let go?
10. If you could visit any planet or moon in our solar system, where would you go and why?
11. Is cooking and eating hard in space?
12. How do you celebrate special occasions like birthdays or holidays on the ISS?
13. What is the coolest experiment you’ve worked on in space?
14. What is something about Earth that looks completely different from space?
15. What do you think future space stations will look like 50 years from now?
16. What is the coolest social media post you have made while in space?
17. If you could design your own space suit, what would it look like?
18. If you could play any sport in space, what would it be?
19. If you could be one character from Guardians of the Galaxy, who would you be?
20. What is one piece of advice you would give the kids of Levine Children’s Hospital?