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

episode 171, Orion Today. I'm Pat Ryan.

On this podcast we talk with scientists, engineers, astronauts, and all kinds of

experts about their part in America's space exploration program. And today we're checking

in on the development of the vehicle that will take men and women

farther away from Earth than they have ever gone.

It's called Orion, and as the program puts it on its website, for the first time in a generation, NASA is

building a human spacecraft for deep space missions that will usher in a new era of

space exploration. That includes going back to the moon in just a few years.

Yep, this is the spaceship to make that trip. And we've talked about various aspects of

Orion and its systems here on the podcast over the past three years.

Today we get an update.

Orion Deputy Program Manager Howard Hugh has bachelor's and master's degrees in aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.

He worked in the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs

before joining Orion in 2007.

And since then, he has worked on the vehicle's avionics and power and software systems on guidance,

navigation and control.

He really knows this thing inside now.

And I got to spend an hour asking all the so-called stupid questions so you don't have to.

Time to find out the latest about Orion.

Here we go. So. I learned a long time ago in high school

that line sir for the red.

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