Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center episode 56, Dr. Space Man.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. So we bring in the experts here, NASA astronauts, NASA doctors, and sometimes astronaut

doctors. And that's what we're bringing on today, an astronaut and a

medical doctor. I need to go back to school. Okay so today we we're talking with Dr. Mike Barrett, who started his career at

NASA as a physician and a flight surgeon. He flew to the International Space Station twice,

once on a long-duration mission in 2009 and again in 2011 on Space Shuttle Discovery.

He also served as the manager of the Human Research Program that looks at the most prominent health and performance risks associated with human spaceflight

and to figure out what to do about it and make astronauts safe and healthy as possible.

So today I talked with Dr. Barrett about the five hazards of human spaceflight. We work with the

human research program to identify these hazards. We're looking at radiation, isolation

and confinement, distance from Earth, altered gravity, and hostile and closed environments.

We give a broad overview of each of them

from a medical doctor slash astronaut who has actually flown in space.

So with no further delay,

let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Dr. Mike Barrett.

Enjoy. T-minus Minus T-I second, County.

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Mike, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today to talk about your story and then also these hazards.

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