Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 332, crew flight test, the astronauts.

I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be kicking off this episode today.

On this podcast, we bring in the

expert scientists engineers and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the

world of human spaceflight and more. And once again I'm very proud to

welcome yet another talented individual and her voice as a host of the

podcast Courtney Biesley. Courtney welcome.

Hi I'm so happy to be here and happy to join the podcast team.

And I'm happy you're the one doing this episode because your role is working with astronauts. Can you expand a little bit about what you do?

Yeah, so I am the team lead for the flight operations directorate or FOD.

Basically, we get the opportunity to work with astronauts to help with their

public affairs appearances and we also get to work with the crew out at

Ellington for some of those flight operations we also have the opportunity to work with the mission control teams,

with the flight directors and flight controllers.

So it's just overall a really, really cool beat to be part of here at NASA because we get to really represent kind of the

faces of the agency.

Very much so.

Yeah, and I think being here and doing this opening episode for you with Butch and Sunny, not a bad way to start.

They had a lot of energy in this interview.

They did. A lot of personality, a lot of excitement.

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