Prof Dame Karen Holford, the vice-chancellor, said: “It’s absolutely wonderful that Jack thought of us at Cranfield and took the time from his busy schedule to do this.
“It really made me smile thinking of Jack on board the ISS trying to see our campus!”
Hathaway began working for NASA in 2022. In January 2025 the astronaut visited Year 5 pupils at nearby Holywell School.
The pilot is one of four astronauts currently on a Space X-Crew 12 mission on the ISS, which launched on 13 February.