Standard issue for all women.

Hello, hello and welcome to this Tuesday podcast.

A podcast packed, rammed, brimming, fit to busting, with good news.

Yeah, I think we all need us some of that mood shine, hey?

And indeed, I am chatting to NASA's finest Dr. Suz Kundu about Artemis II, a space mission that

passed the Beschdel test. There's never been such times. Not content with that being a feel-good

story for the ages, Suze came armed with some other women-centred tales of joy in STEM. She really

is a diamond. As ever, there is some extra chat for our £5

and above patrons, and so if you want to know a bit more on how positive this mission has been

for women in STEM, learn what's next for Artemis, and here Sue's crying at Carol the New Lunar

Crater. You can get all of this and so much more by joining us at patreon.com forward slash standard

issue. And now the delightful Suz Kundu. Over. Here she is. NASA's finest, one of my favorites,

and our regular good news bear, Dr. Seuss Kundu. Suz, hello. Hi, Mickey. How are you? I'm always better when I've got some Sue's time, so thank you very much. What a way to start my week. Oh, you are so kind. I wish more people thought that. I'm sure they do. So first of all, what is the vibe at NASA at the moment? Are they giddy-kippus? Oh, it's a fascinating time. There's a lot of good

things going on, which we will definitely cover. I think one of the things has certainly captured

the imagination of the public, and that's of course the art of a submission, which we will chat

about. But we are also being faced with many of the usual challenges within research, one of them

being a proposed funding touch once again. So it'll be an interesting few months just to see

how we navigate that, whether that goes through or not. But everybody is keeping as

pecky as possible and just getting on with a job at hand. Yeah.

Now, full disclosure listeners, I basically wanted me and Suez to just chant,

Artemis, Arturmus together for like half an hour because Artemis too feels like a bright

spot of hope and unity in a whole lot of gloom.

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