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

episode 317, Paragrin Mission 1. I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today. On this

podcast we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts,

all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

NASA is heading to the moon.

Under Artemis, NASA is working with several American companies to deliver science and technology

payloads to the lunar surface.

The initiative is called Commercial Lunar Payload Services.

In short, NASA hitches a ride on a lunar lander owned and operated by a commercial company

to deliver unique science experiments and technology demonstrations that we have been dying to test

out on the face of the moon. Launching to the moon this month is a mission called

Paragrin Mission 1. It's a commercial mission from the company

Astrobatic out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania using their lunar lander called Paragrin.

It'll lift off on United Launch Alliance's using their lunar lander called Paragrin.

It'll lift off on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan centaur rocket

on its maiden flight, and is landing on the moon

to deliver stuff, science and technology,

a lot from NASA, but quite a number of experiments from

commercial industry and universities. On this episode we tied in remote

with the CEO of Astrobatic John Thornton and NASA deputy manager for Commercial Lunar Payload Services Ryan Stephan

to talk about this mission ahead of its launch and landing on the moon, diving into the

Lander, the Mission Profile, and of course the Science and Technology aboard.

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