Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 300.

Producer Will, add some cheers and stuff.

All right, okay, okay, settle down. We did it, 300 episodes. We were so excited to reach this milestone.

We knew we had to do something big.

So we reached out to the visitor center next to NASA Johnson Space Center called Space Center, Houston, to help us to draw a crowd.

Anyone who wanted to come see us and record an episode for a live audience.

It was a blast and we're recording this intro pretty much right after the event and still kind of coasting off of that excitement.

But to help me to kick this off and to introduce this

Magnificent event, I have

Dane Turner, our new producer of Houston. We have a podcast since our longtime producer Pat Ryan announced his well-deserved retirement.

Dane, welcome to the team.

Thanks for having me, Gary. I'm really excited to be part of the team now.

Yeah, and it was an awesome event, man. I really had a good time.

It was fantastic. It was so good to be there.

And when you're doing a podcast, you don't get to see your audience.

And to have a live audience there, it was a completely different experience.

And it was just so cool to have that instant feedback of an audience in the room with you.

Yeah, and we had a lot of questions come in.

Like, I couldn't get to all the questions at the end. We did a Q&A at the end of this.

It was so cool. But there was just a lot of, you know, all eyes were on us.

It was a lot of engagement. And I talked to the, to the folks that are guests for the podcast afterwards.

And they just absolutely loved it. So it was just a wonderful experience.

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