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

episode 201, Citizen Science on Station. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts,

scientists, engineers, astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of

human spaceflight. There are opportunities for college students to design an

experiment that flies to the International Space Station and comes back to Earth.

There are a few requirements to be selected, one of which is that these college students

must involve K-12 students at some level as citizen science and get them involved as well.

The program is called Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science or more commonly

known as Spocks. Recently, NASA intern Sarah Smith, who worked on Spocks under NASA's STEM on Station Initiative,

interviewed students that were selected in December 2020,

expecting to fly their experiments to the station

in the 2022 time frame.

The experiments are very interesting

and they have really unique applications.

She puts together a narrative audio product, and I thought it would be a cool story to share here on Houston. We have a podcast.

So to help me introduce this story, I have Sarah Smith here with me in the studio.

Welcome Sarah.

Thanks Gary, I'm happy to be here. here with me in the studio. Welcome, Sarah.

Thanks, Gary.

I'm happy to be here.

So let's help to kick off and explain

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