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

This is Episode 277, Crew 6.

I'm Dan Hewitt, and I will be your host for most of today.

On this podcast, we bring in the expert, scientists, engineers, and astronauts.

I'll let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

NASA's Commercial Crew program continues on,

getting ready to launch a crew of four astronauts and cosmonauts from NASA,

Rose Cosmos, and a newcomer, the Muhammad Bin Rashid Space Center from the United Arab Emirates,

all on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the sixth Crew Rotation mission to the International Space Station.

Each of these four humans have very diverse and different stories for how they got to where they

are right now, and we were fortunate enough to spend a few minutes with each of them before their

launch. On this episode, you'll hear from every crew member, Commander Steve Bowen,

Pilot Woody Hoberg, and mission specialist Sultan Onyadi, and Andre Fidiyev,

and hear them reflect on their lives, their training, the anticipation of their upcoming

long-duration mission in space. Let's get right to it, enjoy!

First up is NASA astronaut Steve Bowen, Commander of Crew 6. Steve is going to be responsible for

all phases of flight from launch to reentry. Once on board the station, he'll be a flight engineer

for the long-duration mission. He was born in Cohaset, Massachusetts and went to the US Naval Academy,

and he was the first Submariner to get selected to join the astronaut corps back when he was selected

in the year 2000. And he is the veteran of this crew. He's flown to the station three previous times

on three different space shuttle orbiters to help build the laboratory. This is going to be his

first time living and working on station for several months, though, so let's jump right in to hear

...