An educational radio contact is planned with EcoTarium, Worcester, MA, telebridge via AB1OC. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS and the scheduled crewmember is Luke Delaney KJ5PPF;t he ARISS mentor is AB1OC.
Contact is go for: Thursday 15 October 2026, 15:25:33 UTC, 40 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 EcoTarium students:
1. What did your first day in space feel like?
2. How does it feel to always be floating and not on a planet?
3. What is something you wish the ISS had that it doesn’t?
4. What does the ISS smell like?
5. What is the hardest part of living on the space station?
6. What do you do when you miss home?
7. What is the most surprising thing you have seen from space?
8. Have there been times when you worried that something would go wrong during the mission?
9. How has living there changed your perspective on Earth?
10. How do you train for emergencies?
11. How do you make grilled cheeses up there?
12. If living on the moon was possible would you prefer to live on the moon?
13. What do you hope the ISS will achieve next?
14. Does time feel like it goes faster or slower there?
15. How does your family feel about you being an astronaut?
16. Do you believe there are other living things outside of our planet?
17. Do you get as hungry there as you do on Earth?
18. What do astronauts do after they go to space?
19. How do you feel after you come back to Earth from space? 20. How cool is space in your opinion?