Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 245, after his year in space.

I'm Gary Jordan. 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.

Today we will be speaking with none other than NASA astronaut Mark Vandahai.

Mark recently returned to Earth on March 30th, 2022 after spending 355 days in space,

setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by a NASA astronaut, surpassing the previous record for a single spaceflight by a NASA astronaut,

surpassing the previous record for a single spaceflight

that was set at 340 days by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

We had a chance to speak with Mark about a year ago before this 355 day mission.

If you want to go back and listen to episode 190, Mark discussed what he was looking forward to on this upcoming flight and what he might do differently

from his first flight. It wasn't clear at the time that his mission would get extended

to a year. Now that he's returned and had some well-deserved time to relax after his marathon run on station,

we're lucky enough to get the chance to speak with him at length about this incredible experience.

So let's get right into it. Enjoy. T-minus 2nd county.

Mark.

The long-commit lights, sir, for the right.

And here she goes.

Isn't we have a Good. I'm feeling relaxed right now because I just got done with my two hours of rehab for the day and that's the typical part of the schedule and yeah, it's a pretty good deal.

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