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

episode 2, your 2017 astronaut class. I'm Gary Jordan and I'll be your host today.

So on this podcast, we bring in the experts, NASA scientists,

engineers astronauts, pretty much all the folks that have the coolest information,

the stuff you really want to know, ride on the show and talk about everything

NASA. So today we're talking about the new astronaut class of 2017 with Anne Romer.

She's the manager of the astronaut selection office here at the NASA Johnson Space Center

in Houston, Texas.

And we had a great discussion about the astronaut candidate class of 2017, who they are,

what they bring to the table, and why these 12 people were chosen out of more than 18,000 applicants.

I also had a chance to talk with them all at the same time, but I only had a few minutes,

so I thought it would be fun to play two truths and a lie to get to know them a little bit better.

And I'm not adding any fluff when I say that they are a truly outstanding group of people, not only with their

insane qualifications and expertise, but also with their personalities.

And we'll play that segment today on this episode.

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

our talk with Miss Anne Romer. Enjoy. B minus five seconds, then, county.

Mark.

Now, here she goes.

A long, she goes. He's in. We have a podcast.

a podcast.

Well now, so Anne, you're coming right out of I guess the frying pan or out of the

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