Houston, we have a podcast.

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

episode 106, student-built space hardware.

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

On this podcast we bring in the experts, NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts,

educators all to let you know the coolest information about what's going on right

here at NASA. So today we're talking about the way students can actually build

and fly hardware to the International Space Station.

It's part of a program called High School students united with NASA to create hardware.

Of course it wouldn't be NASA if you didn't have acronyms, so we just call it hunch.

It's a program that's grown quite a bit over the years, starting with just a few schools,

making space tools, and growing to over 270 schools in many states doing hardware manufacturing, soft goods, or fabrics

training, software development, culinary science, and videos, the list goes on.

Note we mentioned more than 70 schools a few times in this podcast, but we're just

talking about the schools at the Marshall Space Flight Center. There's over 200 or so

based out of the Johnson Space Center. So with us to talk about all things

Hunch are the co-founders of the program, Bob Zeke, and Stacy Hale.

They tell the tale of how Hunch got started and how it's grown. What the students are actually doing

and how the stuff they do flies to the space station and what to expect in the program

within the coming years.

So here we go.

Everything Hunch with Mr Bob Zeke and Mr. Stacey Hale.

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