NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore and Pilot Suni Williams discuss their astronaut journeys and preparation to be the first humans to fly Starliner. HWHAP Episode 332.
Houston, we have a podcast.
Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space center.
Episode 332, crew flight test the astronauts.
I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be kicking off this episode today.
On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.
And once again, I'm very proud to welcome yet another talented individual and her voice as a host of the podcast, Courtney Beasley.
Courtney, welcome.
Hi.
I'm so happy to be here and happy to join the podcast team.
And I'm happy you're the one doing this episode because you, your role is working with astronauts.
Can you expand a little bit about what you do?
Yeah.
So I am the team lead for the flight operations directorate, or FOD.
Basically, we get the opportunity to work with astronauts to help with their public affairs appearances, and we also get to work with the crew out at Ellington for some of those flight operations.
We also have the opportunity to work with the mission control teams, with the flight directors and flight controllers.
So it's just overall, a really, really cool beat to be part of here at NASA because we get to really represent kind of the faces of the agency.
Very much so, yeah.
And I think being here and doing this opening episode for you with Butch and Sonny, not a bad way to start.
They had a lot of energy in this interview.
They did a lot of personality, a lot of excitement.