Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 39, Beam and Expandable Spacecraft.

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

So in this podcast, we bring in the experts,

NASA scientists, engineers, and astronauts,

all to let you know the coolest information about what's going on right here at NASA.

So today we're talking about expandable space modules and the commercial module on the International Space Station right now called Beam,

or the Bigelow expandable activity module.

We're talking with Rajib Des Gupta and Gerard Valet.

Rajib is now the material and process engineering system manager for a commercial crew,

but he was the project manager for Beam during the beginning of the project.

Gerard is the project manager right now, and he used to be the Beam Structures lead. We talked about the beginning of the project

with Rajib and then more on what Beam and expandable monitors are made of and how they work and

what's in store for the future with Gerard.

Thanks to Max with an exclamation point and Kevin on Twitter for the suggestions to do an

episode on Beam.

Again, we are reading those Twitter questions so keep sending them in.

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

Mr Rajib Des Gupta and Mr Gerard Valet.

Enjoy. B minus five seconds,

second, county.

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