Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 419,

Telling Time on Other Worlds.

I'm Dane Turner, 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 and more.

Days, hours, minutes,

time is so ubiquitous to our everyday lives that we often just think of it as numbers on a

clock face. We forget that these numbers are tied to the motion of our planet. But what do we do

when we aren't on Earth? How do we tell time in a place where maybe morning, afternoon, and

evening don't necessarily align with our typical earthly 24-hour day, or even seconds themselves

may tick faster on the moon? On this episode, we have Kevin Coggins, Deputy Associate Administrator

for NASA's Space Communication and Navigation, or Scan, program.

To help us understand how NASA plans to keep time on other planetary bodies

and why accurate timekeeping is so important to spaceflight.

Let's get started.

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