Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 220, high-flying.

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

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts also let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

But let's be honest, we cover a lot more than that.

When humans return to Earth on American spacecraft, a high-altitude aircraft is deployed to capture imagery as it heads in,

providing early data on a spacecraft status that helps mission control and recovery operations.

That aircraft is called a W.B. 57. We've talked about the

aircraft briefly on this podcast before, but today we're going to explore the

aircraft, its operations, and some cool features in more depth.

Joining us for this episode is Carrie Scott goes by CJ.

He's the deputy principal investigator of SciFly,

which is of course an acronym for scientifically calibrated in flight imagery based out of

NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia.

We'll talk about the W.B. 57, its operations, what SciFly is all about, and some ongoing work to prepare for Artemis missions

with Orion returning from the moon. Exciting stuff so let's get right into it.

Enjoy. T-minus minus to I second county.

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Mark.

A long, monsieur. Mark. I'm on school med-lights, sir, for the red. Here she goes.

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