Hi, Curious Universe listeners.

We have a very exciting episode for you today to finish out Season 5 of NASA's Curious Universe.

For our finale episode this season, we had the rare chance to sit down with a member of NASA's SpaceX crew four mission, astronaut Jessica Watkins.

As a refresher, the crew four mission launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket

from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 27, 2022.

Two, one, zero.

Vacition?

And let's stop.

Go to Frank. Got a free to break. And let's stop. Go to bring a friend.

Got to be in 340.

Astronauts Chelle Lindgram, Bob Hines,

Jessica Watkins, and Samantha Christopher Reddy spent 170 days aboard the International Space Station.

While in space, the crew orbited Earth more than 2,000 times and did some incredible science along the way. From growing plants without soil to testing a concrete made from lunar dust.

My question is, how do you grow and what are plants aboard the space station?

Yeah, so that is a big question that we've actually been working on answering here on the International Space Station for a while now.

So there are different ways...

Their dragon spacecraft, which they named Freedom, splashed down off the coast of Florida on October 14th, 2022.

It's a 200 meters for bracing to splash down.

Copy, brace for splashdown.

And again, that descent rate is as expected here.

Pretty soon we should be able to see the view of the ocean come into view as

crew dragon freedom with four astronauts on board prepares to splash down after

...