Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center episode 67,

NASA's 60th anniversary live.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So if you're new to the show, we bring in experts to talk about all the different parts about our

space agency. Now recently we just celebrated NASA's 60th anniversary and we

celebrated on October 1st. We accomplished a lot during those years and you can

even humbly say that NASA changed the course of human history and inspired generations.

And we did something special to reflect on this very idea.

We took Houston We Have a Podcast on stage for our folks here at the Johnson Space Center and

brought in special guests from the podcast Writing Excuses.

We sat down with science fiction and fantasy writers Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, Howard Taylor, and special guest Dangwan Song.

Mary Dan and Howard have written science fiction books, many of which are set in space.

And Dangwan is an editor and a literary agent.

We discussed how 60 years of NASA has influenced works in fiction and even how fiction has influenced real science and innovation.

We also sat down with NASA astronaut Chell Lengren,

who flew back in 2015, has accumulated 141 days in space,

and he gave some other the NASA perspective of things.

So with no further delay, let's jump right ahead to our first recording of Houston

We Have a podcast from the stage for a live audience to celebrate the 60th anniversary of

NASA.

Enjoy. T-Mine second, county. Mark.

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