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NASA releases recording of Menon and Rober’s student call

The public video runs 33 minutes 50 seconds; NASA’s completed-event post records student questions about life in space.

09 November 2026 at 12:03 pm ISTBy Mission Desk1 min read

Updated 09 November 2026 at 12:05 pm IST: Follow-up to our November 4 report on the planned call: NASA has published its completed-event acknowledgement and the public recording.

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NASA’s graphic accompanying its November 4, 2026 post linking the Menon–Rober student-call recording. Credit: NASA.

NASA published a recording of astronaut Anil Menon’s November 4, 2026 conversation from the International Space Station with science educator Mark Rober. In its completed-event post that day, the agency reported that Menon had taken questions from students about life in space.

NASA’s November 3 announcement had scheduled the call for 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on November 4, or 9:30 p.m. Indian Standard Time, with the agency hosting and Rober joining from California.

Menon was born and raised in Minneapolis to Indian and Ukrainian immigrants, according to his NASA biography. NASA’s advance announcement described outreach to students across the United States.

NASA’s YouTube recording runs 33 minutes 50 seconds. Its chapter list marks the space-station question-and-answer segment at 16 minutes 22 seconds, giving viewers a point from which to replay the exchange.

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