Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 426.

Meet Artemis 3. I'm Nilafer Ramji, 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 and more.

On the heels of NASA's historic

Artemis II mission, the agency is preparing to return Americans to the lunar surface and build

the capabilities needed to stay there. While NASA continues to advance the systems needed to support

a sustained human presence beyond Earth, we here at NASA Johnson are supporting the astronauts and mission teams

who are training for the future of spaceflight. The Artemis 3 mission will demonstrate the

capabilities of lunar spacecraft in low Earth orbit. A crew of four astronauts will launch in the

Orion spacecraft on top of the space launch system rocket to test rendezvous and docking

capabilities between Orion and

commercial human landing systems. In this episode, we meet the crew of Artemis 3, for explorers

who will test the spacecraft, demonstrate capabilities, and eventually train crews who will go

on to perform these maneuvers at the moon. Let's go for all humanity. mission start. Here we have a lot. All right on. Here we have a podcast.

First up, we'll be talking to the commander of the mission and the pilot.

The commander of Artemis 3 is Randy Comrade Bresnick, a Marine Corps test pilot turned

NASA astronaut.

He's logged 149 days in space across two missions, flown in both the Space Shuttle and Russian

Soyuz, done five spacewalks totaling over 32 hours, and commanded the International Space

Station on Expedition 53.

With over 7,000 flight hours in nearly 100 aircraft including combat missions as an

F-A-18 pilot, he blends raw experience with exceptional leadership. A Citadel Military College math grad,

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