Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 314, Mars Audio Log Number 4.

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.

We're back with another audiologue from the Chappia crew.

Chappia or Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog

is a year-long analog mission in a habitat right here on Earth

that is simulating very closely what it would be like to live on Mars.

We're lucky enough to have monthly check-ins with the crew,

Commander Kelly Haston, flight engineer Ross Brockwell, medical officer Nathan Jones, and

science officer Anka Salaru. To meet the needs of fitting in with this analog and simulating significant

communication delays between Earth and Mars that prohibit us from having a live conversation,

the crew is recording an audio log based off of the questions that we draft for them.

On this episode we'll play a recording of their fourth month in the Habitat, which is here at

the Nasta Johnson Space Center and was recorded in October 2023.

We'll also be bringing in a special guest to learn even more about Chapea.

This month is on a subject which if you've been following in the series is something the crew has been excited

about since they started

crops. This month we speak with NASA's life sciences project scientist Joya

NASA, one of NASA's foremost experts on space crop production to discuss the crop aspect of the Chippia mission.

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