Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 14, robotic arms in space.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So if you're new to the show, this is where we bring in NASA experts,

scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to tell you the cool stuff. new to the show this is where we bring in NASA experts scientists

engineers astronauts all to tell you the cool stuff about what's going here

what's going on here at NASA. So today we're talking with Tim

Braithwaite he's the Canadian Space Agency's liaison manager here at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

And we talked about the robotic arms in space, which is perfect because astronauts board the

International Space Station are going to perform three

spacewalks in the month of October and in all three the astronauts are

working on the Canada arm two which we'll be talking about in this episode

along with how it was developed and how it works today,

how the technology helps people here on Earth, and what's coming up in the future.

But for a lot of episodes, we tie topics to what's going on today here in space and try to explain it at a high level.

We're always listening to what you want to hear about and we're looking on social media especially.

So if you've listened to previous episodes, we tell you where to ask these questions.

We could put it in the podcast at the end of every episode.

So I wanted to answer this Twitter question from Jennifer, who asked about the mission, after the mission control episode,

when you run an experiment, our scientists invited to the mission control center.

So I went and did some digging and found out that sometimes they come to Mission Control

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