On Episode 416, The podcast team discusses how to watch and engage with the Artemis II mission, from launch coverage to real-time updates and beyond.

Choreographing Astronaut Recovery

For any crew returning to Earth from space, the journey home includes a carefully choreo-graphed recovery effort to bring them safely back on dry land after splashing down in the ocean. Christine St. Germain, NASA recovery director for the Commercial Crew Program, tells us about this critical phase of flight.

Houston We Have A Podcast: Air Force Rescue and Recovery by NASA

On Episode 414, Dr. Lisa Carnell, division director for NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences, discusses how research in microgravity, the Moon, and Mars can transform our understanding of biological and physical phenomena, from translational science to space radiation countermeasures.

Nujoud Merancy, NASA's deputy associate administrator for the Strategy and Architecture Office, talks about how NASA is developing the roadmap for Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond.

NASA's Dragonfly spacecraft, a rotorcraft the size of a small car, is set to ex-plore Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Rich in organic compounds, Titan offers a rare window into the kinds of chemical conditions that may have existed on Earth long before life began.

On Episode 413, NASA’s International Space Station Program Manager Dana Weigel and Director of the International Space Station and Commercial Spaceflight Divisions Robyn Gatens reflect on more than 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station and discuss how the orbiting laboratory is paving the way for Artemis, the Moon, and eventually Mars.

Artemis II: She's Calling Us by NASA

Behind NASA’s Artemis II mission and the astronauts who will fly around the Moon, teams on the ground are essential. Explore some of the epic equipment that makes Artemis II possible—the mobile launcher, crawler-transporter, and NASA’s barge Pegasus—and meet a few of the many specialists who act as the shoulders lifting astronauts into space.

During Artemis II, four astronauts will see the lunar surface as few humans have—and possibly, parts of the Moon’s far side that no one has seen before. Learn what lunar science questions NASA hopes to answer through the astronauts’ eyes with lunar geologist Kelsey Young. And those astronauts will also be subjects of science. Jancy McPhee, associate chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program, explains how studying human health on Artemis II will prepare us for exploration deeper into space than ever before.