Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 231, Advanced Oxygen Generation.

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

On this podcast we bring in the experts,

scientists, engineers, astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of

human spaceflight. When it comes to living and working in space, one of the

critical systems to help make that happen is a reliable way to generate breathable air.

On the space station, the oxygen generation system or oxygen generation assembly called the OGA has been doing a fantastic job for 14 years.

Running a system like this for that long offers fantastic insight into how to make it better.

And better is what's needed to go farther.

Today we're going to be discussing more

about the oxygen generation system

and the next generation system,

or an advanced oxygen generation assembly,

AOGA, that would be used for Artemis missions to the

Moon and beyond, and tested in low-Earth orbit, of course.

We're going to be bringing in Kevin Takata, Systems Engineer for the Space Station's oxygen generation

assembly at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. He's the right guy

to talk to you about this topic with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

and a master's in engineering management,

and of course 20 years of experience working on light support systems.

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