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

episode 227, How to Build Orion. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. On this podcast,

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

We've discussed NASA's Artemis program, the one that's returning humans to the moon as a sustainable program. Part of making this possible is

thinking ahead. So when we talk about gearing up for Artemis 1, we have a lot of people

focused on Artemis 2 and even 3.

On this episode, we're going to talk about some of that planning,

namely with the Orion spacecraft,

the part that humans will live and work in

during those first Artemis missions.

Specifically, we're going to start from the ground up on how

Orion spacecraft are manufactured four Artemis missions and where four of those spacecraft

are today.

To discuss this, we're bringing in Ned Penley, who was the manager of the Orion Programs

Planning and Control Office when we recorded this, and has since been promoted to the Deputy

Associate Administrator for Management for the Exploration Systems

Development and Space Operations Mission Directorate.

We're also bringing in Stu McClung, the Chief of Staff of the Orion Program's Planning

and Control Office.

So let's get right into it and learn what it takes to build Orion.

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