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

episode 26. Can you hear me now? I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host for the very first episode in 2018. Happy

New Year. So on this podcast this is where we bring

in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts, flight controllers, all the

coolest people. We bring them right here on the show to tell you all the cool

stuff about what you want to know about what's going on here

at NASA. So today we're talking about space communications and communication

networks with Bill Foster. He's a ground controller in Mission Control Houston

and we had a great discussion about how space communication works,

what it will look like in the future,

and why it's so important to make missions successful.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed

and jump right ahead to our talk with Mr. Bill Foster.

Enjoy. Enjoy. T-minus Minus-I second, then county.

Mark.

A long, come that light, sir, for the red.

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Isn't we have a bond death.

We have a bond.

It was an interesting thing that we can touch on this later if you want to.

But one thing that I always wondered about, you know, the Apollo 13 you

the Apollo 13 and at the movie you see them entering the blackout and then there's

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