Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 95, Space Ship Crash Testing,

a crash course in space safety.

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

On this podcast we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers,

astronauts all to let you know what's going on right here at NASA.

So if you're familiar with us, you may know we've had a couple of episodes

about the Orion spacecraft, the one that will be traveling

into deep space carrying humans.

We've covered a variety of topics, a lot of them focusing on the more human side of things,

keeping them alive and comfortable, protecting them from radiation

and learning how to deal with emergencies if necessary. That's a lot of human spaceflight, thinking

of what could go wrong and then solving the issues ahead of time.

And that's what we're going to be talking about today.

This topic is called Occupant Protection.

It's basically thinking of ways that Orion could put stresses on the human body

during different phases of flight like

launches and landings and thinking of ways the crew inside could be injured.

This could come from vibration or acceleration, even hard impacts.

And then super smart people get together and design parts of Orion to make sure the crew is safe.

So today we're talking about the biomechanics of it all and even what biomechanics is with Mark Baldwin.

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