26-05-2025
Astronaut Anne McClain to greet hometown from ISS in earth-to-space video call Tuesday
May 25—Spokane-born astronaut U.S. Army Col. Anne McClain is set to talk with Earth's schoolchildren Tuesday from the International Space Station.
In a "downlink" event sponsored by the Mobius Discovery Center, McClain will answer Spokane-area pupils' prerecorded questions while floating 250 miles above the Earth's surface in a video call.
The 1997 Gonzaga Prep grad and her crew, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, launched March 14 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida 4. They're scheduled to return to Earth this fall after about six months of research.
It's McClain's second trip aboard to the International Space Station, spending 204 days there in 2018- 19 running hundreds of experiments, walking in space twice and partaking in another downlink event with thousands of students hosted at Gonzaga Prep.
The call is scheduled for Tuesday at 10:25 a.m. The 20-minute call with McClain will be live streamed on the NASA STEM YouTube channel.
