Houston We Have a Podcast (NASA) - Episode Summaries Podcast Summaries

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Gary Jordan, the host of Houston We Have a Podcast, interviews Mark Vande Hei, the US astronaut who was the flight engineer on Expedition 53 in 2017, when he flew Soyuz to the International Space Station (ISS). Jordan asks Vande Hei about his first flight and upcoming second mission, which launched in April 2021.

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Jeanne Meserve, a veteran journalist and the moderator on this episode of Houston We Have a Podcast, interviews Joel Montalbano, NASA’S International Space Station (ISS) program manager, and the representatives from the four other space agencies – Canada, Japan, Europe, and Russia – that make up the ISS partnership. They discuss how the ISS has become a burgeoning economy in low Earth orbit, and how they are building trust with one another in order to someday transport people to Mars. Along with Montalbano, Meserve speaks with Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, Luc Dube of the Canadian Space Agency, Junichi Sakai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Sergei Krikalev of Roscosmos with the Russian Federation.

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Brandi Dean, NASA public affairs specialist and moderator on this episode of Houston We Have a Podcast, interviews experts from NASA’s Flight Operations Directorate (FOD). They include Norm Knight, deputy director of Flight Operations; Holly Ridings, chief flight director; Emily Nelson, deputy chief flight director; Pooja Jesrani, flight director; David Korth, former flight director; and Kenny Todd, the International Space Station (ISS) deputy program manager. Together, they give their audience a backstage pass to spaceflight, showing that the bulk of the work making these missions possible happens at the ISS flight control room, while celebrating twenty years of hard work.

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Gary Jordan, the host of Houston We Have a Podcast, gathers with four experts to talk about the end of the mission to Mars, when the crew lifts off from the surface of the planet and returns to Earth. Joining him on his last episode of the series on Mars are two experts from the Human Landing System Program for the Artemis Program: Tara Polsgrove, lead systems engineer, and Tom Percy, integrated performance lead, along with Dr. Doug Trent, part of the Mars Architecture Team’s entry, descent, landing, and ascent (EDLA) lead, and Michelle Rucker, the lead of NASA's human Mars Architecture Team.

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Gary Jordan, the host of Houston We Have a Podcast, interviews three experts working on Complement of Integrated Protocols for Human Exploration Research, or CIPHER, which investigates how the human body changes in low Earth orbit. The seventeen research protocols from NASA are collecting data and biological samples from astronauts who spend time in space, in order to understand the effects of spaceflight on the body. Jordan speaks with Chief Project Scientist Cherie Oubre, Project Manager Nikki Schwanbeck, and Deputy Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program Steve Platts. Schwanbeck oversees the entire project, from conception to completion, along with Oubre, who works with principal investigators to answer their interdisciplinary questions, organizing their research to create one set of tests that will be done on a crew member.

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Gary Jordan, the host of Houston We Have a Podcast, interviews Dr. Bill Paloski, former director of the Human Research Program at NASA. Paloski has extensive experience in studying artificial gravity on Earth and exploring its effects, with the aim of finding ways to keep astronauts healthy after long intervals in space and zero-gravity environments. Paloski discusses antigravity and how to use it as a countermeasure for the effects of zero-gravity on the bodies of astronauts.