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

Episode 390, Exploration Park. I'm Kenne Pell and I'll be your host today. On this episode,

we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts, all to let you know what's going on

in the world of human spaceflight and more. Just outside the gates of NASA's Johnson's Space Center

here in Houston,

ground has been broken on Exploration Park. The planned 240-acre research park will evolve with many

academic, industrial, and international partner research facilities that develop over multiple decades.

The research park will create an infrastructure that allows for a multi-use space hardware

development environment where academic researchers, aerospace companies, and entrepreneurs

can collaborate with NASA.

On today's episode, we talked to Johnson Space Center's Associate Center Director Donna Schaefer

and Robert Durkin from the Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program.

We'll learn about Exploration Park and how it'll play a key role in helping both Johnson and NASA

reach their commercialization of space goals as well as support the development of the U.S. space economy.

Let's dive in.

Music Let's dive in.

T-minus five, second, F County.

Mark.

Mission starts.

T-0.

Outscombed lights are right. And there she goes.

Isn't we have a podcast?

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