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

episode 230, A Buzz on Station. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the expert, scientists, engineers, and

astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

You're a listener of this podcast so you know humans are living and working in space and

they have been continuously for more than 21

years and if you haven't heard we're planning to continue that through at least 2030

and then beyond on commercial destinations not to mention on and

on and around the moon through NASA's Artemis program.

So we're planning to have humans working and living in space

for quite some time, and they might need some extra helping hands in the form of say a flying robot.

Luckily we have experiments on station looking at just that.

Enter the Astro Bee, a cube-shaped robot that flies around station.

This capability of a flying robot on station is very versatile,

so investigators with interesting ideas can add to this ever evolving capability.

To help us understand AstraB, its capabilities, and its evolution, we're bringing in Eric Katerhagen.

Spheres and AstraB Operations Lead over at Ames Research Center.

Eric has an undergraduate degree from St. John's University and Natural Sciences with a focus in

biochemistry as well as a master's and space studies

from the University of North Dakota's John D. Odegaard School of Aerospace Sciences

as well as an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

At NASA, he's worked as a research scientist

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