Jack Hathaway

The first direct amateur radio contact between the International Space Station and a public school in that nation.

It will be a long time before students of the Mary Graham Bicentennial High School forget the lesson delivered to them from the space station by NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, Kilo Juliet Five November India Victor, who was using the call sign November Alpha One Sierra Sierra.

As the space station passed into visible orbit over Chile, the teenagers read the questions they had prepared to ask on space exploration, technology, and microgravity.

The ARISS contact was the first for a direct via RF contact by a Ch- Chilean public school.

On Thursday, the eighth of October, they returned home, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, KJ5NIV, along with the European Space Agency's Sophie Adenot, KJ5LTN, and Roscosmos' Andrey Fedyaev had spent two hundred thirty-seven days in space.

One of the most notable ARIS contacts took place just days before the astronauts' return.

Jack Hathaway spoke to students in Chile on the twenty-eighth of September during the first direct contact any school in that nation had with the space station.

Their successors, the members of Crew-13, include Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, KJ5PPT, Josh Kutryk, KJ5PFU of the Canadian Space Agency, and Sergey Prok выеv, Tetyetnikov of Roscosmos, who have been living and working on the space station since Thursday, October first.

This is Travis Lisk, N3ILS.

It brings us to our spotlight segment.

On Jessica, Jack, Sophie, and Andre, and see if they are [gentle music]

And we welcome Alban Guillaumard, researcher in space geopolitics at, uh, Paris' École Normale Supérieure School of Higher Learning.

Thanks for being with us.

Uh, there was a bit of a moment of patience that was required, uh, as the capsule was bobbing up and down.

We weren't sure what exactly was happening because those dinghies weren't immediately approaching the capsule.

But, uh, it looks like they've, uh, verified, made sure that there are no hazardous, that there were no hazardous fuels or liquids around the capsule, and now the capsule is aboard the MV Shannon, this specialized, uh, SpaceX vessel that serves as the command center but also as a medical, uh, station because those, uh, astronauts, those four astronauts, Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Andre Feyyajiv, and of course, French woman Sophie Adenot, uh, will have to undergo immediate vital checks, uh, things like blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen levels, and body temperature.

And they will be helped out of the capsule and immediately set on either a chair or a stretcher because essentially the body forgets for eight months in, in microgravity, forgets how to pump blood against gravity.

Splashdown.

Dragon Freedom has returned home, and Jessica, Jack, Sophie, and Andre- Copy the splashdown.

On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home Crew-12

And so of course, this was for Crew-12 coming back from the International Space Station.

Funny how the trip up takes about eight hours, but the trip home takes 27 and a half hours.

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All four Crew-12 mission astronauts, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andre Fedorov are now home safe and sound.

Elon said, "Welcome home." Yeah, I was surprised the other day, we were putting together some new astronaut posters-

She was the one responsible for getting everyone home safely.

And then we have Jack Hathaway.

He's also from NASA.

He was the pilot of the mission.

contributing, let's say, to our understanding of the Universe and of ourselves.

Of course, now they are home, they are safe back on planet Earth.

Jessica, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenauer and André Fediot from all of us here on Calam Astro, welcome back and it is quite a celebration to have great, very, very courageous astronauts like them to land back on planet Earth.

they went up they did their job and they came back and the things of course that they learned the work that they did they will help shape the future of every single one of us maybe even some of the young listeners right now listening to us on calamaster who one day will be the ones going on those very very long missions to mars and beyond space is not just a dream it's a plan and it is happening well Stay with me, please.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule undocked on Wednesday and spent about 27 hours making its way home.

NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway said, The European Space Agency's Sophie Adeno and Russia's Andrei Fedyov launched in February and logged more than 100 million miles in orbit.

Their stay ran a few weeks longer than planned after a propulsion issue delayed the arrival of their replacements.

Mir performed four spacewalks, bringing her career total to seven, and Adeno became the first French woman to walk in space.