Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 94 Mental Health.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

If you're new to the show, we bring in the experts

to talk about all the different parts of our

space agency and sometimes we get a chance to bring in some folks from outside

NASA and look at some parallels to human spaceflight that you might not even know

existed.

Today we're doing a special live video recording of the podcast and we're doing it for a few reasons.

One is the topic.

We're talking Mental Health for Mental Health Awareness Month.

We're in a time now where long duration spaceflight

is somewhat normal.

People have been living and working on the space station

for well over 18 years straight now,

doing thousands of experiments.

Many of those experiments are done to understand exactly what happens to the human body over time and

space, looking at everything from eyes to blood flow to muscle and bone loss and even understanding the overall mental health of our astronauts.

Mental health will be a key component to understand, especially when humans travel farther away from home

than ever before and for very long periods of time.

There have been studies on the International Space Station looking at this, and most of them

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