Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 10, average Joe educator, astronaut. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So if you're new to the show, this is where we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers,

astronauts, pretty much all the folks that have the coolest information, the stuff you really want to know right

on the show, and tell you more about everything NASA. So today we're talking with Joacaba.

He's a U.S astronaut and he just launched to the International Space Station a few days ago on September 12, 2017 for his

second long-duration mission aboard the orbiting complex.

We talked about his time in the Marine Corps and Peace Corps,

his previous missions to space, and his background

as a high school and middle school educator.

And a little bit about how he views the importance of being an

educator in space. So with no further delay let's go light speed and jump right

ahead to our talk with Mr. Joe Acaba. Enjoy. Mark.

On ski mid-lights are correct.

Now here she goes.

Isn't we have a podcast? Yeah. coming so close to your launch day and like we just talked about before you have an accelerated

training program you're not doing the two-year thing you're doing six months so you're kind of got a pretty

jam-packed schedule huh I'm glad to be. I'm glad we found the time and it is, it's a little bit unique where usually our

training flow is, depending on your experience, 18 months to two years and I got a whole

six months.

So time is busy, but it's going really well.

Very cool.

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