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

Episode 380, Mission Control, Schedule, and Inventory.

I'm Courtney Beasley, and I will 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. The Mission Control Center, or MCC, is the iconic epicenter

of human spaceflight operations. It takes a large, talented team to ensure the

safety and success of any mission, whether to low Earth orbit or beyond. You may have seen

depictions of mission control in movies or seen video of it during a NASA broadcast. The mission

control team is there 24-7, 365 days a year, monitoring all of the systems and activities aboard

our laboratory in orbit. Each day is covered by three shifts of controllers who do a handover

between shifts in order for everything to run smoothly. There are a lot of consoles in International

Space Station MCC, and each one has an important job.

We'll be dedicating six episodes to covering the positions in Space Station Mission Control,

what they do, and how they work together to keep the orbiting lab operating smoothly.

In this episode, we will be covering the operations planner or ops plan Kelly Goodyear,

the inventory stowage officer

or ISO, Alex Aradondo, the plug-in plan and utilization officer or Pluto, Josh Dow, and the

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