Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So before we cross into the New Year and witness the spectacle of thousands of fireworks launching everywhere

for episode 25, we're talking about rockets, specifically a special rocket that's, well,

on a rocket.

So today we're talking about launch abort systems with Wahhabal Shahein.

He's a guidance, navigation, and control engineer here at the NASA Johnson Space Center

in Houston, Texas.

And we had a great discussion about what a Launch Abort System is, how it works, a little bit of history, and why they're necessary to send

humans into space. So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with

Mr. Wahhab al-Shahin. Enjoy. T-minus 2nd county.

Mark.

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mid-life circuit, the red.

Here she goes.

Isn't, we have a podcast podcast. But, uh, well, hop, it's actually, it's really good to see you and thanks for coming

on the podcast today for taking the time to do this. Yeah, of course.

This is an interesting topic because it's sort of, you know, we've been talking a lot about a lot of big things, right?

We talking, the International Space Station, we talked about space food, landing for these big concepts, but this is sort of,

it is a big concept, but it's kind of like, you know, if you're looking at a rocket, you're

looking at the tippy, tippy top of a rocket.

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