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From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
NASA practitioners make human spaceflight legible through the engineering constraints, operational lessons, and mission decisions behind the hardware.
Houston We Have a Podcast follows human spaceflight from hardware decisions to mission architecture, usually through focused interviews with the people doing the work.
A pulled fiber in an Orion parachute can make you care about every inch of the trip home.
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A measured shuttle retrospective shaped by Columbia's aftermath, program history, and mission-control improvisation.
Ascension: Looking Back at the Space Shuttle weighs the shuttle as an American symbol and as a program whose ambitions ran into operational limits.
A clear, technically grounded look at how Blue Ghost is meant to approach the lunar surface.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 frames NASA's bought ride to the Moon as a study in how much a lunar delivery depends on careful engineering choices. The episode keeps Firefly's mission tied to NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, following Blue Ghost as it carries 10 NASA…
A clear guide to how Artemis hardware and international partnerships support NASA's Moon-to-Mars architecture.
NASA's Moon-to-Mars planning gets a clear, grounded treatment through the Architecture Concept Review, a recurring look at how Artemis can support a lasting lunar presence and future human missions to Mars.
A clear look at how NASA Johnson Space Center opens Moon-to-Mars work to public ideas and partnerships.
This episode follows how NASA Johnson Space Center presents its Moon-to-Mars work through a public-facing front door. Niloufer Ramji, who leads public affairs officers for exploration and development programs, frames a broad portfolio that touches Artemis, spacesuits, tools,…
Fred Hayes explains the crew changes that put him on Apollo 13 and the illness he faced late in the mission.
Fred Hayes's route to Apollo 13 gives the episode a clear spine. He moves from fighter pilot and research pilot to astronaut, backs up Apollo 11, then lands on the mission that changed history.
Particle accelerators, compost piles and Queen's guitarist, all explained.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
APA's Kim Mills interviews psychology researchers on tipping, crying, and extremism.
This episode of Houston We Have a Podcast explores the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center, focusing on three key officer roles—ADCO, TOPO, and SPARTAN—who manage the International Space Station's motion, trajectory, and power systems to ensure safe and successful spaceflight operations.
This episode of Houston We Have a Podcast focuses on Japan's contributions to the Gateway lunar space station through an interview with JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide, highlighting international partnerships in the Artemis program and advancing human spaceflight toward the Moon and Mars.
This episode explores how the human body adapts to spaceflight, featuring NASA's Chief Health Officer Dr.
Episode 418 of Houston We Have a Podcast centers on the Space Shuttle's history through Stephen Hirshhorn, a 36-year NASA employee and former operations representative to the Orbiter Project Office.
["Houston We Have a Podcast Episode 367 centers on Blue Ghost Mission 1, Firefly Aerospace's CLPS lunar delivery carrying 10 NASA payloads to the Moon.", "Niloufer Ramji speaks with Farah Zubairi, Firefly's Director of Spacecraft Mission Management, and Maria Banks, NASA's CLPS Project Scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center.", "Banks frames CLPS as NASA buying a lander ride for science hardware, while Zubairi explains more than three and a half years of design, qualification, and landing tests.", "The episode also covers the mid-January Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 39A, the Mare Crisium landing site, and payloads studying dust, regolith, heat flow, GNSS, and plume interactions."]
NASA's Moon to Mars program is being refined through an annual Architecture Concept Review, and Najood Maranci says Mars will need nuclear surface power.
Houston, We Have a Podcast episode 365, “Johnson's Front Door,” explains how NASA Johnson Space Center built a single entry point for partnerships, capabilities, technology, data, prizes, and challenges.
Fred Hayes traces a path from the Biloxi High Tide and the Biloxi Gulfport Daily Herald to NASA, where he started at Lewis Research Center for $5,460 a year.
This episode explores the design and testing of Orion spacecraft parachutes for safe return from deep space missions.
An interview with NASA and David Clark Company experts about the design and development of the Orion Crew Survival System suits for Artemis Moon missions.
NASA podcast episode discussing plant water management experiments for growing plants in space using hydroponics.
NASA's official podcast discusses a Mars analog mission (CHIPIA) with crew audio logs and a nutrition scientist.
NASA experts discuss advanced technologies for human spaceflight, including nuclear thermal propulsion and lunar infrastructure, at the NIAC symposium.