Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 325, astronaut graduation, 2024.

I'm Leah Cheshire, and I'll be your host today.

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 human spaceflight and

more. Our new class of astronaut candidates are about to graduate. The 2021 astronaut, who have been dubbed the flies,

spent the last two years undergoing training

as astronaut candidates, practicing for space walks

in the neutral buoyancy laboratory, flying in T38 jets, space station familiarization, learning

the Russian language, and more.

That training is almost complete and they'll be eligible for assignments to future missions,

whether to the International Space Station in low Earth orbit, or to walk on the

lunar surface through Artemis missions.

Ahead of their graduation, I had a chance to interview all of the flies, both NASA and United Arab

Emirates astronauts.

On this episode you'll hear from each of the flies to learn a little bit about them,

their training, and expectations for what's ahead as an astronaut in 2024.

I loved these conversations. For your listening pleasure, here are the flies ahead of their graduation. Enjoy. B-0. A-0.

B minus five seconds to county.

Mark.

Mission start.

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