Hey, if you love the deep conversations about engineering, science, and space exploration, you get every week from Houston. We have a podcast. Well, there's another official NASA podcast you should check out, NASA's Curious Universe. Each episode of Curious Universe brings you stories only NASA can tell. Hear from scientists looking for signs of life beyond Earth.

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Three, two, one.

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Check out NASA's Curious Universe wherever you're listening to this podcast, or at nassah.gov slash curious universe Houston we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 401, Artemis 2, launch. I'm Joseph Zaksheski and I'll be your host for this episode.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts,

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

of human spaceflight and more. The Artemis 2 mission will be the first crude flight of NASA's

Artemis program, a bold step forward in our journey back to the moon and beyond. Four astronauts,

Reed Weissman, Victor Glover, Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hanson will to the moon and beyond. Four astronauts, Reed Weissman, Victor Glover,

Christina Cook, and Jeremy Hanson will orbit the moon and test key systems needed for future

lunar landings. But before those astronauts leave Earth, they need someone at the helm of the launch,

someone to lead the team at Kennedy Space Center and announce that final go. That role belongs

to Charlie Blackwell Thompson,

NASA's Artemis Launch Director. She made history in that role for Artemis I, and she's back

for this second flight, guiding the team toward another powerful launch on the space launch system

rocket. Charlie's NASA career spans over 30 years, launching shuttles, leading countdown operations,

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