Houston, we have a birthday. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center Episode 252.

I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be kicking off this discussion today. Five years ago, this week,

we launched the first episode of Houston, we have a podcast and we're still going.

We've brought in so many scientists, engineers, astronauts to talk about a huge variety of topics

and share some incredible stories. This past year, we dove deeper into the Artemis program that

will be returning humans to the moon. We've continued to talk about station science,

STEM inspiration, history, commercialization and more. That's what I love about this podcast.

There's so many different, unique things that we can talk about and so many topics that we can

explore. We're celebrating another great year of Houston, we have a podcast. Once again, bringing

in the podcast team with a few new members to pick their favorite episodes and play a segment of

that for you today. Once again, we have producer and audio wizard, Alex Perryman, as well as

producer and host Pat Ryan. We also have Belinda Polito returning, who prepares the transcripts for

each episode. New members include Heidi Lavel, who takes the role of creating the episode webpage

and graphics and Jaden Jennings, who has an intern, has done a great job of researching topics

and drafting episode outlines. If you're new to the show, this should give you a nice snapshot of

some of the conversations we've had so far. Happy birthday to us. Let's jump right ahead to

reminiscing with the podcast team. Enjoy.

Hey, it's Alex Perryman, your friendly neighborhood audio wizard. I'll start this celebration off

with my favorite episode from this year with episode 239, crew four. It's always awesome to have

astronauts on the show and especially right before their first flight. And it's no secret, I'm

pretty biased in saying that the 2017 astronaut class tutorials are my favorites. Especially since

they were the first class of astronauts that came in at the beginning of my career here.

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