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

episode 222 Station Science 2021. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts,

scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the

world of human spaceflight. Active listeners of this podcast know that the

space station has a lot of research going on.

More than 3,000 experiments over more than 20 years

of human presence.

When we measure and plan all of these activities,

we do so in a period called an increment.

Essentially this is a stretch of time between crew handovers or when one crew

replaces another. They're typically about six months and in that six months

there are about 250 experiments that can occur,

sometimes more. That takes a lot of planning and coordination and

with years of experience NASA has this down to a science,

pun intended.

So we're going to take a look at the current increment,

increment 66, to talk about some of the great science

on board now and some more coming up that we can expect. And we're going to learn what it takes to coordinate all of that and cram it into a million

other things happening on board at the same time.

This behemoth of a task is assigned to Mandy Katie, the research lead for Incament 66, and we got a chance to

sit down with her and learn about how all of this works.

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