m. EDT Friday, May 8, hosted by the Aurelia M. Cole Academy in Clermont, Florida, for students in grades K-12 and community members.
The event aims to deepen understanding of space exploration and enhance awareness of STEM careers. m. us.
In a separate event, Williams and Hathaway will answer prerecorded STEM questions hosted by Queens Borough Public Library for K-12 students and community members. m. Wednesday, though the exact date was not specified in all sources.
m. EDT Wednesday, March 11. Williams recently spoke live with students at Old Hammondtown School during a video conference organized by his sister-in-law, Reading Specialist Katie Samost.
Students asked questions about seeing Earth from space, moving in microgravity, showering, and walking after return. Williams provided a virtual tour of the ISS and demonstrated water behavior in microgravity, describing daily life aboard the station, including sleeping, hygiene, and collaborative work. S.
Naval Academy. He reached the ISS last month after launching from Cape Canaveral with three other crew aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was Hathaway's first time in space, and he serves as the mission's pilot.
The crew comprises Hathaway, commander Jessica Meir, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev for an eight-month stay. Williams is serving as a flight engineer aboard the ISS as part of Expedition 74, having launched on Nov. 27, 2025, aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft for an approximately eight-month mission.
Selected by NASA in 2021 as part of the 23rd astronaut candidate class, Williams previously worked as a clinical physicist and researcher at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. S. space program.
At age 11, he didn't think being an astronaut was a real job due to low chances. He discovered his love for physics and astronomy during his teenage years and had a high school internship in radio astronomy at the Naval Research Center under mentor Dr. Kurt Weiler.
D. in physics from MIT in 2012. He is a board-certified medical physicist who completed his residency at Harvard Medical School.
During a break between undergraduate and graduate school, he worked at Naval Research Lab and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center doing radio and x-ray astronomy. , he helped build a prototype for a telescope now operating in Western Australia. As a medical physicist at Harvard, his research focused on developing a new type of image guidance technique for cancer patients.
He later worked as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and as a medical physicist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. At MIT, he pursued his doctorate in physics with a focus on astrophysics, conducting research in the Outback of Western Australia. He was part of the team that built the Murchison Widefield Array, a low-frequency radio telescope array.
During the mission, Williams will help install and test a new modular workout system, support experiments to improve cryogenic fuel efficiency and grow semiconductor crystals, and assist in designing new re-entry safety protocols. Williams served as a volunteer emergency medical technician and firefighter during his time at MIT. Williams and fellow Soyuz MS-28 cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev will join NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Jonny Kim, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky, and Oleg Platonov already aboard the ISS for Expedition 73/74.
m. Thursday, November 27, on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and YouTube. Aboard the ISS, the Expedition 74 crew is conducting research on blood stem cells, plant-microbe interactions, and more.
NASA flight engineer Jack Hathaway loaded a microscope with blood stem cell samples and installed Earth observation and biology research equipment on an external platform. Hathaway installed three science payloads on the NanoRacks External Platform, including Earth observation technologies and a round worm adaptation study. NASA flight engineer Chris Williams checked on alfalfa plants in the Veggie facility for the Veg-06 study on plant-microbe interactions.
NASA flight engineer Jessica Meir videotaped packs of Japanese rice samples for return to Earth. ESA flight engineer Sophie Adenot installed the AstroPi imaging computer for student challenges. The Progress 93 cargo spacecraft will depart the ISS and reenter Earth's atmosphere for disposal.
Progress 93 arrived at the ISS on September 13, 2025, delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies. For more than 25 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts communicate with NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through SCaN’s Near Space Network.
Research and technology investigations taking place aboard the space station benefit people on Earth and support other agency work, including missions at the Moon. As part of NASA’s Artemis program, the agency will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars, inspiring the world through discovery in a new Golden Age of innovation and exploration. S.
military families overseas will hear NASA astronauts answer prerecorded questions on Dec. 11 and 12. On Dec.
11, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams will respond to questions from Stuttgart Elementary students. On Dec. 12, Nick Hague will answer questions from Kwajalein School System students.
Stuttgart Elementary is part of the Department of Defense Education Activity's Europe East District and serves military-connected students. Kwajalein School System is on a secure army installation on Kwajalein Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.