Originally Posted by nsummy

I just called in. That was rough, I think that astronauts get better call quality calling from the space station to earth. I did get it taken care of those, thanks for the help. One question though. The guy asked me for a contact name for check-in, so I gave him my info but he said it had to be someone else's. So i gave him my mom's name and phone number. Is there a reason for that? Are they going to call her? I can only imagine she will fear for the worse if some guy with a deep accent calls her with call quality you can barely understand.