Positive Impacts

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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NASA astronaut Chris Williams shares his journey exploring the early universe, cancer treatment techniques, and astronaut training before his first mission to the International Space Station. HWHAP 403.

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0:00.0	Hey there, Houston. We have a podcast listeners. You know that we bring you the scientists,
0:05.5	engineers, and astronauts to tell you what's going on in the world of human spaceflight. But who do
0:10.5	you want to hear from? We are gearing up for 2026 and want to know if there's any topics that
0:16.1	you'd like us to cover. So if there's a certain department, project, or aspect of human spaceflight that
0:22.0	you'd like to know more about, email us at NASA-Huston Podcast at mail.natsa.gov, and it may be featured
0:29.4	on an episode next year. And now back to your regularly scheduled podcast.
0:35.4	Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 403,
0:41.7	Positive Impacts.
0:43.1	I'm Dane Turner, and I'll be your host today.
0:45.2	On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts, all to let you know
0:49.9	what's going on the world of human spaceflight and more.
0:52.8	The second member of Astronaut Group 23, also known as the Flies, is headed to the International
0:57.6	Space Station.
0:59.2	Chris Williams will be traveling to the ISS aboard Soyuz MS-28 to be part of Exhibition 73 and 74
1:05.6	alongside the crew of NASA's SpaceX crew 11.
1:09.1	Chris grew up in Potomac, Maryland.
1:10.4	He graduated from Stanford
1:12.0	University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in physics and earned a doctorate in physics from
1:16.6	MIT in 2012, where his research was in astrophysics and early universe cosmology. He then
1:22.3	became a board-certified medical physicist completing his residency training at Harvard Medical
1:26.9	School in Boston. Before he
1:28.6	became an astronaut, he worked as a clinical physicist and researcher in the Radiation Oncology
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