Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 131,

Train like an astronaut.

I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts,

all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

We are lucky enough to bring in a number of astronauts onto this podcast.

For the most part when we talk to them they've been

training for quite some time in preparation for a long duration stay on the

International Space Station and they're just about to leave the country before

their launch and we investigate their unique stories of what it took to become an astronaut.

While today we're sitting down with someone who has trained hundreds of astronauts to zero

in on all the aspects of astronaut training and everything they have to endure

from their first day to the moments before launching to space.

So going into the details of the intense training needed to be an astronaut today is Kathy Bolt, the chief training officer and a captain. training Kathy Bolt. Mark.

A long, mid-life life, sir, correct.

And here she goes.

Isn't, we have a podcast. Yeah.

Kathy Bolt, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. Thanks for inviting me.

So you are the, let's see, chief training officer and you're a capcom such a cool job title how did you get that?

Well I was lucky I'll tell you that it has been an experience I you know I started working here some almost what 30 years ago now

almost in 1991 and and I started training crews in 1997 when we first started training the space station crews.

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