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Houston We Have a Podcast

Spacecraft Displays

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Fox, Chief Engineer of the Rapid Prototype Lab at the Johnson Space Center, tells the history and evolution of displays and controls in the space shuttle. Fox reveals details behind some of the new displays that are being designed to fly on the Orion spacecraft. HWHAP Episode 44

Transcript

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0:00.0

Houston, we have a podcast.

0:02.0

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

0:04.6

episode 44, spacecraft displays.

0:07.4

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

0:08.8

So on this podcast, this is the one where we bring in the experts,

0:11.9

NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to let

0:14.4

you know the coolest information that's going on right here at NASA. So today we're talking

0:18.1

about NASA's deep space human capsule Orion, which we've discussed several times on the

0:22.3

podcast, giving an overview of the

0:23.9

capsule, what it would be like to live on it for up to three weeks, but today's episode is focusing

0:28.5

specifically on the screens and how they've evolved over time from the shuttle era now to future spacecraft.

0:34.8

Coming on the show once again is Jeff Fox, chief engineer of the Rapid prototype lab at the Johnson

0:39.2

Space Center.

0:40.2

He's been on the podcast before and he actually brought some of the audio that from the test run that we've done on the Ryan specifically EFT1. We'll talk about that later.

0:48.0

And he gave us a really cool audio experience of riding on a spacecraft.

0:52.0

And now he's back to tell us about some of the details behind some of the new displays

0:55.4

that are going on Orion.

0:57.1

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

1:00.9

Fox.

1:01.8

Enjoy. T-minus 2nd county.

1:13.0

Mark.

1:14.0

A long-commit lights, sir, correct.

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