Phone from Home: Salado Students Call Astronaut:

eHam.net News – SALADO — “NA1SS, this is K5LBJ, over. NA1SS, this is K5LBJ, over,” 12-year-old Morgan Morreale said, and on the fourth “ring,” astronaut Scott Tingle picked up. A small group of students at Salado Intermediate School contacted the International Space Station by radio in front of an all-school assembly Tuesday morning, the culmination of a year-long science and technology program organized by teachers Colleen Gilchrest and Laura Tomlin. The students chosen to speak with Tingle, a U.S. Navy captain and engineer, read out questions that they had written followed by questions submitted by their schoolmates. “How do you all get along in space, even though there are people from all over the world, over,” Morgan asked. “We get along with a lot of patience and a lot of tolerance,” Tingle replied. “We train together … we get to know each other and each other’s families pretty well.” Gilchrest said she first learned about Amateur Radio on the International Space Station when she and three other teachers attended a conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in February 2017.

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