Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 62, escaping a speeding rocket.

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

So on this podcast we bring in the experts,

NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to let you know the cool. be your host today. So on this podcast we bring in the experts, NASA

scientists, engineers, astronauts all to let you know the coolest information

about what's going on here at NASA. So today we're talking with

John Nalansen and Jenny Devolites. We're talking about a critical step on the path to build

NASA's deep space human-rated vehicle Orion with a test mission called

A Sent Abort 2, AA2 for short. So John is the manager of the Orion A. A. 2 crew module and the A2 launch

abort vehicle test director. Jenny is the deputy manager and the test conductor.

We've done a Pat Abort for Orion. is the deputy manager and the test conductor.

We've done a pad abort for Orion in the past, meaning a test to see what an abort would look like

if the rocket had a failure before launch and was going zero miles an hour.

This is a test to see what an abort would look like if a failure happened

while the rocket was speeding up through the atmosphere.

We've talked about launch abort systems on the podcast before,

so if you want to, after after this episode you can listen to

episode 25 called A Rocket on a Rocket. We talked with Wahhab al-Shahine and we

actually I'm pretty proud of that title by the way.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed

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