On a Desert Island with the 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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NASA’s all-American 2025 astronaut candidates share a little about themselves by playing a fun icebreaker game. HWHAP 402.

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0:00.0	Hey, if you love the deep conversations about engineering, science, and space exploration, you get every week from Houston. We have a podcast. Well, there's another official NASA podcast you should check out, NASA's Curious Universe. Each episode of Curious Universe brings you stories only NASA can tell. Hear from scientists looking for signs of life beyond Earth.
0:22.6	Find out what it's like to fall into a black hole.
0:25.6	And tag along with NASA experts paving the way for astronauts to return to the moon and
0:30.6	eventually set foot on Mars.
0:33.6	Whether you're a total space nerd or a first-time space explorer, there is a curious universe episode for you.
0:42.0	Three, two, one. We have ignition and we have nips off.
0:48.6	Check out NASA's Curious Universe wherever you're listening to this podcast, or at nassah.gov slash curious universe
0:55.3	Houston we have a podcast welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson
1:02.4	Space Center episode 402 on a desert island with our new class of astronaut candidates.
1:08.8	I'm nilifer ramji and I'll be your host today. On this podcast,
1:11.6	we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on
1:17.7	in the world of human spaceflight and more. Nest is welcoming its 24th class of astronaut candidates,
1:23.5	and they've just arrived at Johnson Space Center. The new class is eager to begin their two-year
1:27.9	training flow that eventually will lead them to graduating and becoming astronauts that are eligible
1:33.3	to go to space. The candidates were announced on September 22nd on a live NASA Plus broadcast,
1:39.5	and we were able to get them into our studio to introduce themselves ahead of the announcement. So they're all new, and it's like their first day of worker school, and we were able to get them into our studio to introduce themselves ahead of the announcement.
1:44.5	So they're all new, and it's like their first day of worker school, and we want you to get to know them.
1:49.7	So we'll be doing something a little different today.
1:52.6	We're going to play an icebreaker called Desert Island, and we'll do this with them in two groups.
1:57.1	So let's meet our new class.
2:21.4	Music groups. So let's meet our new class. We have a podcast. Thanks for joining us on Houston.
2:22.9	We Have a Podcast.
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