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

episode 322. I am one. I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today. On this podcast, we bring in the

experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts

all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

NASA is headed to the moon. Under Artemis, NASA is working with several

American companies to deliver science and technology

payloads to the lunar surface.

The initiative is called Commercial Lunar Payload Services.

In short, NASA hitches a ride on a lunar lander owned and operated by a commercial

company to deliver unique science experiments and technology demonstrations that we've been

dying to test out on the face of the moon.

Launching this month is a mission called I-M-1.

It's a commercial mission from the company Intuitive Machines,

using their lunar lander called Nova Sea.

It's launching on a commercial rocket, the SpaceX

Falcon 9, and it's landing on the moon to deliver stuff. Science and technology, a

lot from NASA, but also quite a number of experiments from commercial industry and universities.

On this episode, we sit down with Intuitive Machines Chief Technology Officer Tim Crane

and NASA Project Scientist for the IM-1 mission,

Susan Letter to understand more about this particular mission,

the Lander, the Mission Profile, and of course the science and technology aboard

that, very shortly after launch, is scheduled to land on the moon.

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