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

345, The Lost Universe. 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.

Interest in tabletop role-playing games, also known as RPGs, has surged in recent years.

These are games like Dungeons and Dragons, where a game master guides a group of players through a series of events

and something like dice are used to randomize the outcome of plot devices,

famously the 20-sided dye.

And now NASA has an official adventure that you and your friends can play yourselves.

The Lost Universe is an adventure designed to take four to

seven players to a rogue planet in order to find the missing Hubble Space

Telescope. On this episode we're bringing on the Adventures designer Christina Mitchell a production

coordinator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to find out more about her

inspirations and the science that's included in the game. We're going to try and

be as spoiler free as possible in this interview, but if you want to try the adventure for yourself before continuing, you can download it for free at science.

NASA.gov. It's compatible with all your favorite role-playing systems, so gather your friends and jump right

into the world of Exelaurus.

With that, let's roll for initiative and find out more about the Lost Universe with

designer Christina Mitchell. T-minus by seconds, then county.

Mark.

Mission start.

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