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

episode 8, Exploring the Cosmos. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So this is the podcast where we bring in NASA experts and in the case of today's episode some

super cool space fanatics to talk about everything NASA. So today we had quite a

few special guests. We're talking about human space exploration with Glenn Lutes, John Connolly, and the band Sticks.

Glenn is the deputy director of the Exploration Integration and Science Directorate, or EISD, here at the Johnson Space Center.

John is the head of NASA's Mars study capability team under EISD,

and Sticks, well, Sticks is a rock band.

We talked to Tommy Shaw, who does guitar. And Sticks, well, Sticks is a rock band.

We talked to Tommy Shaw, who does guitar, vocals,

and a lot of the writing, and Lawrence Gowing,

on vocals and keys, and also does some of the writing, too.

Why is a rock band here at the NASA Johnson Space Center?

Well, we have a lot of amazing things to show off,

and sometimes people come over to check it out.

We had a great discussion about exploring the Cosmos,

what human exploration missions will look like in the future,

and why we send humans to space in the first place.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed to our talk with Mr. Glenn Lutz and Mr. John Connolly as well as Mr.

Tommy Shaw and Mr. Lawrence Gohin from Sticks. Enjoy. B. And we have a podcast.

have a podcast.

Okay, so, how you guys like on the tour so far?

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