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Houston We Have a Podcast

Astronaut Health

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natacha Chough, Flight Surgeon, talks about what flight surgeons do and how they work with astronauts to monitor their health during spaceflight. She reveals health concerns that are unique to the space environment. HWHAP Episode 22.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Houston, we have a podcast.

0:02.0

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

0:05.0

episode 22, astronaut health.

0:08.0

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

0:10.0

So on this podcast, we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts, all the coolest people.

0:15.4

We bring them right here on the show to tell you about more everything NASA.

0:18.9

So today we're talking about astronaut health with Natasha Cho. She's a flight surgeon here at the

0:24.0

NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas and she gave a great description

0:27.6

about what a flight surgeon does and how they work with astronauts to monitor

0:31.4

their health during spaceflight.

0:33.2

So thanks to future Dr. Space Man for the suggestion on Twitter for an episode with a flight

0:38.7

surgeon. If you have suggestions for the topic you'd like to hear on the show, let us know.

0:43.0

You can find where to submit everything at the end of every episode.

0:46.3

No, I'm not going to reveal it right up front.

0:48.4

You got to listen to the whole thing.

0:49.5

Plus, this is a really good conversation anyway.

0:51.4

You're going to really enjoy it.

0:52.4

So, with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with

0:56.2

Dr. Natasha Cho. Enjoy. T-Mineus to I second,

1:05.0

T-minus T-N County.

1:09.0

Mark.

1:10.0

No, here she goes. Now we'll start with something happy.

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