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

episode 23, test pilot to astronaut. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today. So if you're new to the show,

this is where we bring in NASA experts. NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts all to tell you the coolest parts about NASA.

So today we're talking with Scott Tingle.

He's a US astronaut and he's about to launch to the International Space Station in a few days on December 17th, 2017 for the very first time.

We talked about his education going for mechanical engineering, his time in the Navy as a test

pilot, his astronaut training, and his expectations for his first flight.

So with no further delay, let's go light speed and jump right ahead to our talk with Captain

Scott Tingle.

Enjoy. Enjoy. enjoy. County. All right.

All right. Well, Maker, thank you so much for coming on the show today. I know this is coming so close to your launch date already.

Do you have, what are your plans, I mean from now on, are you going to be traveling a lot? Do you have some

training coming up? Well this is my last trip back to Johnson Space Center.

Oh wow. I'm here for five weeks, which sounds like it's a nice long time relaxing no we'll have none of that

we've got a lot of training we got to finish up we've got integrated simulators with the full

crew compliment they're coming in from Russia and Japan to do these simulators.

I'm finishing up with some evaluations in the EVA community and then doing a lot of payloads training and getting all my rust

knocked off my my fingertips so that I can be good when I get back up on station.

And then the last week that I'm here can be good when I get back up on station.

And then the last week that I'm here,

I'll be really focusing on the family

and trying to make sure the roof's not going to leak

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