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

episode 327, Electrician to Astronaut. I'm Leah Cheshire and I will be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

Tracy C. Dyson was selected by NASA as an astronaut Canada in 1998.

As a PhD in chemistry with an impressive

research background into the Earth's atmosphere and now a NASA astronaut,

Tracy is looking forward to her third mission to the International Space Station.

Born in Arcadia, California, Dyson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from California State University Fullerton in 1993, and a PhD in chemistry from the University of California Davis in 1997.

Prior to joining NASA, Dyson designed, constructed, and implemented electronics and hardware

associated with the study of atmospheric gas phase chemistry and has developed and presented numerous papers on methods of chemical

ionization for the spectral interpretation of trace compounds. At the time of her selection in

1998 she was completing her postdoctoral fellowship in environmental science to study atmospheric chemistry at the University of California Irvine.

Dyson is set to fly on the Soyuz MS-25 mission to the International Space Station for a six-month mission, launching from the Bi-Kondor Cosmodrome

launch site 31 in Kazakhstan.

She'll be joined by Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aulovitsky and Spaceflight participant

Marina Valis Gavagaya of Belarus, both of who will spend approximately 12 days

aboard the orbital complex. This will be Dyson's third flight assignment of her astronaut career

and she's scheduled to launch in March 2024.

Now that you have just a glimpse into the wealth of experiences of Tracy Dyson,

enjoy this chat with a seasoned astronaut herself. County. March. This is starting.

I lost the mid-lights are correct.

Here she goes.

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