Teacher on Board

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Ricky Arnold, NASA Astronaut, talks about his time as an educator, his first flight on the Space Shuttle, and his plans to teach from space during his first long-duration flight on the International Space Station starting on March 21, 2018. HWHAP Episode 36.

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0:00.0	Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center.
0:06.0	This is episode 36, Teacher on Board. I'm Dan Hewitt and I will be your host today.
0:12.0	If you're new to the show we bring in
0:13.9	NASA experts, the scientists, the engineers, and the astronauts all to tell you
0:18.4	everything NASA. So today we're talking with Ricky Arnold. He's a US astronaut and he's about to launch to the
0:24.7	International Space Station in March for his second spaceflight and his first ride up in a Russian
0:29.8	Soyuz. We talked about his education, how he started out as an accountant and then went to
0:35.4	marine sciences, went on to a teacher, and eventually became an astronaut. He flew on the shuttle
0:40.6	and now he's about to fly on the International Space Station.
0:44.4	So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Ricky Arnold.
0:49.7	Enjoy. Anyway, Mark. So Ricky Arnold, Arnold, Teacher, Astronaut, World Traveler, and now most importantly, Houston, we have a podcast guest.
1:22.8	Ricky, thanks so much for joining me this morning.
1:24.8	How you doing?
1:26.0	How's training going?
1:27.0	You know, getting ready to go to space.
1:28.8	Oh, yeah, thanks for having me.
1:29.8	It's great, great to be here.
1:31.9	I'm getting close. I only, is my I'm finishing up my US
1:35.0	training this week. I got a couple of weeks off to kind of take care of things
1:39.8	here around the office and at home. I head over to Russia in early February and we do all of our
1:47.2	final training for the Soyuz for our launch vehicle to get us to the space station and back.
1:51.6	Take our final exams and then head off to
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