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

episode 82, Resident Extreme. I'm Dan Hewitt and I'll be your host today. If you're new to the show, we bring in NASA experts to talk

about all different parts of our space agency. And sometimes we get lucky enough to bring

in astronauts to talk about their story. So today we're talking with Christina Hammett Cook.

She's a US astronaut who's about to launch

to the International Space Station in March 2019

for her very first spaceflight. We talked about her education studying electrical engineering and physics,

her time at NASA Goddard and Maryland studying astrophysics,

and her experience living in some of the most remote places in the world,

including Alaska, Greenland, American Samoa, and Antarctica.

She's no joke.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Christina Cook.

Enjoy. T-minus minus by second, county.

Mark.

The most-commit lights,

sir, correct.

Isn't we have a podcast? I'm glad we could pull you out of the

I'm glad we could pull you out of the final months of training for a couple of minutes. I know life's got to be hectic.

What have you been up to lately?

Yeah, thanks. Thanks for having me. It's my honor to be here.

I have been back in Houston training for about three weeks now and when I'm back here

I'm mainly working on space station systems training, space station emergency training,

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