Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

and this is episode 34, A Seismic Journey. I'm Dan Hewitt. I'm filling in for Gary Jordan,

and I will be your host today. If you're new to

the show we bring in NASA experts, the scientists, the engineers, the astronauts all

to tell you everything about NASA. Today we're talking with Drew Feistol, who's a US

astronaut and he's about to launch to the International Space Station in March of

2018. We talked about his education and geology and seismology, some of his previous space flight

experience including flying at the Hubble Space Telescope, and some of his expectations

for his first long duration stay in space aboard the space station.

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

Feistel. Enjoy. T-minus, second, then county.

Mark.

A long, commit life, sir, correct. And here she goes.

Isn't?

We have a podcast. path. It almost seems like the way you became an astronaut, it was just this long line of

dominoes. It all had to fall in place.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I was talking about it, was that it's dominoes, you know? or I'd like to think of it as like Swiss cheese.

They use Swiss cheese analogy for a lot of time for accidents.

Maybe this was an accident when multiple pieces of Swiss cheese

and if you line it up just right one of the

holes you know a series of holes will line up so you get a straight path through all

you know the all the pieces of cheese and I think of my life sometimes that way I think it's true for everybody's life, but you don't always you don't always turn around to reflect on you know you could probably make the same analogy. You could go how did I get from A to B right maybe you have that

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