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Episode 108: Space, Aliens, and Mission ControlIn this cosmic episode of Scream Queens Horror Road Trip, we're blasting off to Houston, Texas, to explore the out-of-this-world Johnson Space Center and the legendary Mission Control center. Join us as we take a tour of NASA's historic headquarters, reliving the exciting moments of space exploration and getting up close to some incredible space exhibits at Space Center Houston.But before we reach the stars, we take a deep dive into the sci-fi horror world of Alien 3. From its troubled production to its chilling atmosphere, we discuss all things alien and dissect what makes this divisive entry in the Alien franchise so unique.Whether you're a space enthusiast or an Alien fan, Episode 108 has something for everyone. So buckle up, it's time for a thrilling road trip to the stars and a deep dive into one of sci-fi's darkest chapters!

Corbett Hoenninger, Senior Vice President of Engineering at Argotec, has quite the space career.  From training astronauts at NASA to helping lead the Dream Chaser's drop tests (including a memorable crash landing), Corbett shares what it's really like behind the scenes of space exploration. Corbett talks about the recent NASA DART mission, (giving an asteroid a nudge), and how small satellites are changing the game in space. Corbett started working in the field of psychology, then shifted to aerospace engineering… and combining both to present this great philosophy of being “fearless, but not reckless,” Corbett proves that you don't have to be a scientist or an engineer to make your mark in the space industry. Sometimes, you just need a spark of curiosity and the courage to explore. About Corbett Hoenninger: Corbett Hoenninger is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Argotec, where he leads exciting projects in small satellite technology and space exploration. His extensive career includes years at NASA Mission Control, where he trained astronauts and worked on mission preparation. Corbett played a pivotal role in the Dream Chaser atmospheric drop tests and was part of the NASA DART mission, where they successfully redirected an asteroid. His journey to aerospace engineering started after serving in the Navy and earning degrees in aerospace and physics. Passionate about mentoring and sharing his experiences, Corbett continues to inspire future space enthusiasts. Where to Find Corbett: LinkedIn: Corbett Hoenninger Website: Argotec Group Email: corbett.hoenninger@us.argotecgroup.com If you enjoyed this episode and would like to share, I'd love to hear it!  You can follow and share in the socials,  LinkedIn - @casualspacepodcast Facebook - @casualspacepodcast Instagram - @casualspacepodcast YouTube - @casualspacepodcast83 or email me at beth@casualspacepodcast.com. *Remember!!! You can send your story to space TODAY! The window for STORIES of Space Mission 03 is NOW OPEN! Send your story, for free, to www.storiesofspace.com   

NASA's Kat Kennedy returns to the show. She shares her experience working in Mission Control and upcoming Artemis program to return to the moon. How does someone at NASA partake in eclipse activities? What's the protocol for taking home old NASA pictures or memorabilia just lying around? What skills has she learned and have proved valuable? How can we all benefit from resilience and finding humor in life? Rich's cat interrupts the recording several times out of curiosity (or intention?). What can we notice from animal communication? **Thoughts and opinions are Kat's and not NASA** Kat on Twitter Rich Hebron website  

This episode's host, Naomi Karavani, goes on a 48-hour journey to find and interview someone who was in NASA Mission Control when Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.  This episode features interviews with:    (in order of appearance) Jeff Simmermon Lois Rosson Rick Sternbach John M. Logsdon Rushmore Denooyer CREDITS 'You Had To Be There' is a Hi Barr Production. Created by Hi Barr. “The Moon Landing” was written and hosted by Naomi Karavani.   Produced by Julia Thompson and Web Barr. Story Produced by Julia Thompson. Edit, Sound Mix and engineering by Teeny Lieberson. Original score by Teeny Lieberson. Artwork created by Dylan Lathrop.  Special thanks to our parents, friends and chosen family. And most importantly, thank you to the artists who've inspired us because they had to do it. You can find Naomi Karavani at @naomikaravani on all platforms. Listen to Naomi's podcast, Cargo Cult here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hi-barr/message

GUEST: CHRIS ANDERSON, pastor and author, Theology That Sticks“Houston, we have a problem.” That's a slight misquote version of what an Apollo 13 astronaut said to NASA Mission Control in Houston after an explosion harmed their spacecraft back in 1970.That was a physical, life-threatening problem. But there are even bigger God-dishonoring problems in the Evangelical church today. The preaching of weak or unsound doctrine is one. Another is the message and methodology of music in the church.While music in sound churches over the centuries was mainly congregational singing of Psalms and hymns with or without musical instruments, that all changed over the past 60 years with the introduction of Christian Contemporary Music (CCM). The worldview driving this believes that the form of rock 'n' roll, soft rock, and rap glorifies God and attracts people to Christianity by simply swapping secular lyrics for Christian lyrics.And yet the result has been compromise. Instead of congregations belting out inspired Psalms or sound hymns, shallow, repetitive, mesmerizing, error-filled songs fill nearly every space in Evangelicalism.The water may have flooded over the dam but our guest this weekend and next will help Christians and churches select “songs, hymns, and spiritual songs” (Ephesians 5) that are sound in theology, honoring to God and edifying for us. His name is Chris Anderson. He's a former pastor of 25 years and author of several well-known hymns, including “His Robes for Mine”. He is also the author of the new book, Theology That Sticks—The Life-Changing Power of Exceptional Hymns.

The geologist Sanjeev Gupta tells Michael Berkeley about his search for evidence of ancient life in rocks on Mars with the help of NASA's Mars Rovers, and he plays unique recordings of sounds from the surface of Mars. Professor Sanjeev Gupta is a scientist who takes the long view, the very long view, into Deep Time. As the Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London, he investigates how landscapes have evolved over vast spans of time. His work as a geologist has meant camping out alone for months at a time in some of the world's most remote places. And Sanjeev Gupta is part of a team of hundreds of scientists working on one of humanity's most ambitious expeditions ever - NASA's three billion dollar Perseverance Mars Rover which is helping us to understand what that planet was like an astonishing three-and-a-half billion years ago. The team is searching for evidence of ancient life in rocks on the Red Planet, rocks that will hopefully be returned to earth for analysis in 2031. Music is vital to Sanjeev Gupta's life. He brings Michael Berkeley music by Bach, Messiaen and Handel and by contemporary composers Peteris Vasks, John Luther Adams and Anna Meredith, music which conjures ‘visions of the beyond' – starlight, canyons, oceans and heaven. Sanjeev describes the surreal experience of helping to operate the Perseverance Rover as it landed on Mars in February 2021 from a flat above a hairdresser in Lewisham when restrictions prevented him from travelling to NASA Mission Control in California. And he recalls the transcendent experience of listening to music alone on long field trips in the vast deserts of Utah. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3

Mary-Kate Smith holds a Bachelors and a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University. She specializes in Mission Design and Digital Engineering. She has worked in NASA Mission Control supporting the astronauts on the International Space Station, developed digital engineering structures for drones, and has climbed around Navy submarines supporting Mission operations for Trident Missiles at Lockheed Martin. Currently she works at Emergent Space Technologies as an aerospace engineer continuing her digital engineering work. She is passionate about STEM outreach and has recently started a YouTube series called TheRocketeerLady, where she tells stories of her experience as a woman in industry. A subset of the series is The DeltaV podcast used to amplify women and other minority voices in STEM.You can find MK at TheRocketeerLady-  https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRocketeerLady & her Podcast DeltaV on Spotify and GoogleInstagram: @RocketeerladyIf you know any women in the STEM field or you yourself would like to be part of this project, please send an email to mindyourstem@gmail.com.Instagram: @mindyourstemFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/MindyourSTEM

Velkommen tilbage til Texas I denne episode tager jeg dig med til den 4. største by i USA – Houston. Her besøger jeg et af de mest ikoniske steder i byen, som satte Houston på verdenskortet, da NASA begyndte at sende folk i rummet. I starten af mit besøg skal jeg bo hos et lokalt par i en trailerpark. Men først skal jeg finde et køretøj, og jeg bestemte mig for at køre med stil.   BILLEJE MED TURO Jeg er i Ceder Park i den nordlige del af Austin for at hente min lejebil. Det er et smukt parcelhuskvarter med fint trimmede græsplæner foran husene. Min Uber sætter mig af ved et af husene, og jeg møder Gary, der ejer den bil, jeg skal køre i. Du undrer dig måske, hvorfor jeg henter en bil i et privat hjem i stedet for et kontor hos Avis eller Hertz i et industrikvarter. Så lad mig forklare – og her kommer et godt rejsetip: Jeg bruger Turo.  Turo er som Airbnb for biludlejning. Det er en online platform, hvor folk kan udleje deres egen bil til fremmede. Det er et rigtig godt alternativ til almindelig biludlejning. Ejerne (som Gary) kan udleje deres bil med Turo, og lejere (som mig) kan kigge på siden og leje dem til de priser, ejerne sætter dem til. Det er både første gang for Gary og mig, at vi bruger Turo. Jeg startede med at kigge på hjemmesider for almindelige biludlejningsfirmaer, og prøvede så at kigge på Turo. Og pludselig dukkede denne lille seje sportsvogn op – og den var billigere end selv de mindste biler, jeg havde set på lige før. Det virkede næsten for godt til at være sandt, men den var god nok. Det er en lille sort 2-sæders cabriolet, hvor taget folder tilbage, når man trykker på en knap. Det var bare noget, jeg blev nødt til at prøve, så jeg bookede den – og kort tid efter stod jeg og sludrede med Gary. ”Jeg har lige købt bilen, fordi jeg altid har haft lyst til at eje en lille bil. Jeg har altid drømt om at eje en lille cabriolet, og udnytte det gode vejr her i Texas. Turo giver mening for mig, fordi det giver mig mulighed for at leje den ud og måske tjene lidt penge den vej. Jeg købte den med den viden, at jeg ville leje den ud, så jeg har ikke noget imod, at fremmede kører i den – i bund og grund er det bare en maskine, der kan repareres, hvis der sker noget. Det er ikke min baby”. Efter en kort snak og instruktion fik jeg nøglerne og kontrol over denne lille sorte skønhed. Og det var så fedt. LANDEVEJENS ROCKSTJERNE I starten af mit besøg i Austin var jeg til endnu en rejseblogger konference, og en aften over et par øl ved en af de sociale events, mødte jeg Ed og Jeanie – et charmerende par fra Houston. Vi kom rigtig godt ud af det med hinanden, og i slutningen af aftenen, tilbød Ed mig at bo hos dem et par dage, hvis jeg skulle til Houston. Jeg var ikke helt klar over om det var øllene, der talte, men jeg tog ham på ordet og takkede ja. Så her var jeg, på vej fra Austin til Houston i en lille åben sportsvogn. Det er en køretur på to-en-halv time, og jeg nød at ligge der i fuld fart på de åbne landeveje. Med vinden i håret følte jeg mig som en rockstjerne, selvom det samtidig var en smule skræmmende med alle de kæmpestore Texas-lastbiler omkring mig. De kunne sandsynligvis ikke engang se mig helt dernede på vejen, og det var som at sidde i en gokart, som sagtens ville kunne køre und under lastbilerne… hvilket jeg dog ikke gjorde. AT BO I EN TRAILERPARK Du kan sikkert forestille dig, hvordan øjnene rullede, da jeg langsom trillede ned ad grusvejen i trailerparken mod Ed og Jeanies trailer, som skulle være mit hjem de næste par dage. Ed er en høj texaner, og alle kalder ham ”Big Ed”. Da jeg ankommer og bliver mødt af Big Ed og hans nabo, Randy, gør de store øjne. Det samme gør Eds lille hvide hund, Yogi Bear. "Woah, look at you man. Fuckin' pimpin'. That's great man, I can't believe you found us," siger Ed med et smil og en tyk Texas-accent. Jeanie og Big Eds trailer er stor. Den er 5x24 meter stor, og hvis man ikke lige ved det, ville man tro, at det var et almindeligt lille 120m² hus. Specielt når man træder indenfor. Der er en gang og adskille værelser – blandt andet to soveværelser. Så det er ikke den slags campingvogn, man spænder efter bilen og kører på sommerferie. Jo, måske her i Texas med en kæmpe truck foran. Men denne har ikke bevæget sig siden den blev parkeret her for flere år siden. Big Ed er pensioneret, og siden han ikke skal tidligt op går han sent i seng. Han fortæller mig, at han tit sidder oppe til 3-4 om natten og ser sport eller Fox News på deres store fladskærms-TV. Jeanie arbejder stadig (eller gjorde på dette tidspunkt – hun er også gået på pension her i 2021), så hun går tidligere i seng. For ikke at Ed skal vække hende hver nat, har de separate soveværelser. Men mens jeg er her, låner jeg Eds soveværelse og han vil stille kravle ind i Jeanies store vandseng. Noget det ikke virker som om, han har noget imod. Jeanie blev ikke spurgt. Mens solen langsomt går ned, begynder det at regne, og jeg satte mig ned med Ed på deres veranda foran traileren, og ville lære min gæstfrie vært bedre at kende. VERANDA-SNAK MED BIG ED Regnen forhindrede desværre Ed i at lave sine ”ikke-helt-nok-så-berømte-Houston-barbecue-spareribs”, som han kalder dem. Men han lovede, at han ville lave dem i morgen. Big Ed fortæller mig, hvordan han og Jeanie endte med at bo i en trailerpark. ”Vi har en dejlig lille hytte her. Specielt efter min kone har smidt næsten 30.000 dollars i forbedringer. Vi har granit-bordplader i køkkenet, har indsat nye badekar og meget andet. Det er et skønt lille sted for os to og vores lille hvide hundehvalp, Yogi Bear. Jeg har også lavet et lille udedørs område omme bagved, som jeg har lavet til en bar, og et sted, vi kan have små koncerter og hygge med vennerne”. Man kan næsten ikke kalde det en trailer, da den ikke har hjul mere. Big Ed fortæller, at de blev fjernet, da den blev stillet der, så man ikke lige kunne spænde den efter en bil og forsvinde i nattens mulm og mørke, hvis man var bagud med betalingerne. REJSENDE TRAILER PARKERE Big Ed og hans ”smukke Jeanie” rejser rundt i verden mere end de fleste. Det har de mulighed for, da Jeanie har arbejdet for United Airlines i 20 år og derfor har lov til at flyve med dem gratis. Hvor som helst og når som helst, de har lyst. De skal bare gå op til skranken og sige, hvor de vil hen – og de skal ikke engang betale for baggage. Det er en enestående mulighed, de udnytter så meget, de kan. Når folk spørger Big Ed, hvor de har været, siger han, at det er nemmere at tælle kontinenter end lande. Så jeg spørger naturligvis, hvor de har været. Han fortæller, at det er blevet en ting for dem at holde nytår i en hovedstad et eller andet sted i verden. Indtil nu har de gjort det i London, Paris, Rom, Phnom Penh og mange andre steder. Næste gang regner de med at det bliver Quito i Ecuador. At rejse så meget som amerikaner er bestemt ikke normalt. Og da især ikke, hvis man bor i en trailerpark i en rød stat som Texas. Ed fortæller: ”Kun omkring 42% af alle amerikanere har et pas, og af dem, der her det, er der ikke mange, der rejser meget udenfor landets grænser. Så vi er ikke som de fleste, og mange af vores venner kommer til os og regner med, at vi altid har en ny spændende historie at fortælle”. Big Ed er en berejst, intelligent og interessant mand, som jeg er glad for nu at kunne kalde min ven. Jeg nyder virkelig min snak på verandaen, men nu må jeg i seng, da jeg har en lang dag foran mig. Jeg skal til det sted, hvor de kommunikerede med den første mand på månen. Houston Space Center. Men først: EN PODCAST ANBEFALING Jeg har en podcast, jeg vil anbefale dig at lytte til. Det er en podcast for sådan nogen som os: Os der har børn, der er ”fløjet fra reden”. Værterne Tessa og Amir kalder det ”Open Nesters”. Lyt til The Open Nester podcast her. SPACE CENTER HOUSTON Efter 1,5 times kørsel fra Big Ed og Jeanies sted, ankom jeg til Space Center Houston. Det første jeg ser, er det imponerende syn af en kæmpe jumbojet med en rumfærge på taget. Jeg var meget spændt på at komme indenfor og lære en masse om den amerikanske historie i rummet. ”Houston, The Radio Vagabond has landed”… Siden 1992 har Space Center Houston budt mere end 22 millioner gæster indenfor. Gæster fra hele verden – og i dag kan de tilføje en dansker til listen. Næsten 1.250.000 besøger hvert år det 23.000 m2 store område. Hele verden kender det som stedet, der huser NASA Mission Control, International Space Station Mission Control og ikke mindst stedet, hvor astronauter bliver trænet. Vi kommer bag kulisserne og ser NASAs Johnson Space Center. Johnson Space Center (JSC) og NASA har en fantastisk historie at fortælle. Inden de åbnede dørene for offentligheden, havde de mange af de specielle ting udstillet på personalegangen. Hal Stall, director of Public Affairs ved JSC, har sagt, at det var som at have Hope Diamanten udstillet i en skotøjsæske. Men det ændrede sig som sagt i 1992. Efter en spændende film som introduktion tager jeg på en NASA Tram Tour rundt i området. Vi kommer først til en stor bygning, der huser den rigtige Saturn V raket. Den ligger ned og er enorm: 111 meter høj, hvilket svarer til en 36 etagers bygning og 18 meter højere end Frihedsgudinden. Og så vejer den omkring 400 elefanter. Mens den var aktiv var det den mest kraftfulde rumraket, der havde fløjet succesfulde missioner, og den blev brugt flittigt i NASAs Apollo program i 1960'erne og 70'erne. Når man går rundt om den – fra spidsen i den ene ende til de fem store booster raketter i den anden, fornemmer man, hvor vildt stor, den er. Senere på turen går vi på en gangbro gennem en anden stor bygning, hvor NASA-astronauter træner til kommende missioner. Der er også her videnskabsmænd og ingeniører udvikler den næste generation af rumfartøjer. Og så kommer vi til måske det mest ikoniske sted af dem alle: Mission Control. Og dette er den ægte vare – ikke noget, der er lavet til udstillingen. Det var præcis her, NASA kommunikerede med de legendariske Gemini og Apollo missioner – og det var her, de talte med Neil Armstrong og Buzz Aldrin, da de satte fødderne på månen.   Mens jeg går rundt i udstillingen, møder jeg en af medarbejderne, som har det danskklingende navn, Pernille. Og ganske rigtigt; Pernille er en dansk-amerikaner, der har boet her i omkring 30 år. Hun fortæller mig om sin internationale familie, og om hvordan det er at bo her i Texas. Det er også muligt at komme indenfor i den 1:1-kopi af den rumfærge, der er monteret oven på den store jumbojet, som jeg så fra parkeringspladsen. Flyet er det originale fly, der fragtede rumfærgen rundt, og indenfor er der en meget spændende udstilling Men der er så meget mere at se. Månekøretøjer, rumfartøjer, rundragter, interaktive udstillinger og så har de også verdens største udstilling af månesten og andre ting hentet ned fra rummet.   Der er så meget at se, og det er nemt at glemme tiden. Det gjorde jeg, og blev prikket på skulden og bedt om at gå kort før lukketid. Du kan se mere og bestille dine billetter på SpaceCenter.org. TILBAGE I TRAILERPARKEN Da jeg kom tilbage til Big Ed og Jeanie, var Ed i fuld gang med at udøve sin magi på deres store gril. Som lovet var han i gang med sine ”ikke-berømte spareribs”. Efter vi havde spist, måtte jeg konstatere, at de burde være berømte. Og så knappede vi en øl op og fortsatte vores snak på verandaen. Jeg bad Ed om at fortælle mig lidt mere om Houston. Han har boet her siden 1954, da hans familie flyttede hertil og han var 5 år (og stadig ”Little Ed”). Så han har været her så længe og det er ikke uden grund. Han er glad for byen. ”Houston er lige blevet den 4. største by i USA (efter New York, Los Angeles og Chicago). Det er ikke en typisk turist-destination, men det er en virkelig fed by, der tjener MANGE penge – og NASA har hjulpet med at få pengene til at flyde til byen. Jeg husker, hvordan astronauterne var store helte, da jeg var barn i 50'erne, og hvordan vi fulgte nøje med i alle de store NASA-missioner”. TALER POLITIK MED EN TRUMP VÆLGER Kan du huske min episode fra Maine, hvor jeg fik problemer, da jeg bragte politik på banen. Here med Big Ed, er det anderledes – selvom vi bestemt ikke er enige. Vi kan tale politik med respekt for hinanden, og med den forventning, at der nok ikke er nogen, der overbeviser den anden. Ed var klar over, at jeg nok ikke var Trump-fan og jeg forventede, at det var han nok. ED OG JEANIES REJSER Texas er jo her på grænsen til Mexico, og Ed og Jeanie har været syd for den mange gange. Ed fortæller mig om deres mange rejser til deres sydlige naboer og rundt omkring i Caribien. De er især vilde med Belize og har været der omkring 12 gange, hvor de har udforsket kysten og de forskellige øer.   En af de steder der er på deres ”bucket list” er et besøg til Påskeøerne. De planlægger at flyve til Chile og springe på en 5-timers flyvetur med et lille propelfly til Påskeøerne. Her kan de tage et andet propelfly til Tahiti og derfra direkte hjem til Houston. Alt sammen gratis med United Airlines takket være Jeanies misundelsesværdige ordning. Det har været fantastisk at besøge Jeanie og Big Ed, og det mest fantastiske var de gode samtaler, vi havde siddende på verandaen. Og Ed var glad for at jeg havde fundet en six-pack med Carlsberg, så han kunne smage en lille bid af Danmark. Jeg forlader trailerparken med to nye venner. NÆSTE EPISODE Jeg bliver lidt længere i Houston og i den næste episode, besøger jeg en gammel herboende ven. Han hedder Doug Harris og er en fantastisk person, som jeg har kendt i mange år og set i mange forskellige lande. Mit navn er Palle Bo – og jeg skal videre. Vi ses.

Welcome back to Texas.  In this episode, I'm taking you to the 4th biggest city in the USA — Houston. Here, I'm visiting one of the most iconic places in the city that really put Houston on the map when NASA started going to space.  I also get to stay with two Texans in a trailer park. But first, I needed a car to get me there. And I thought I might as well go there in style. TURO CAR HIRE I'm in Cedar Park in the northern part of Austin to pick up my rental car. It's in a beautiful residential neighbourhood with nicely trimmed lawns. My Uber drops me off at one of the houses where I meet Gary, the car owner.  I bet you're wondering why I'm getting a car at a private home and not at Hertz or Avis or one of the other big rental car companies. So, let me explain — pay close attention because this is a cool travel tip: I'm using Turo.  Turo is like Airbnb for rental cars. It's an online platform where people can rent out their car to strangers. It's a great alternative to traditional car-renting companies. The owners, like Gary, list their cars with Turo and renters like me can search the site and rent them for daily prices set by the owners.  It's my first time using Turo. I was looking at normal car rental companies, but then I tried looking on Turo's website, and this little cute sports car came up at a fraction of the prices I had just been quoted. It seemed almost too good to be true.  It's a black two-seater sports car where the roof folds back at the push of a button. This was just something I had to try, so I booked, and here I am, in front of the car chatting to Gary.  "I just bought the car because I wanted to have a fun little car that I can rent out," says Gary. "I've always wanted to own a small, convertible sports car to take advantage of the great Austin weather. Turo made sense because it allows me to rent it out when I am not using it to make a few extra dollars. I bought it specifically to rent out on Turo, so I don't mind it being used by other people." Just like me, this was Gary's first time using the Turo service. After a brief chat, I was handed the keys and took control of the little black beauty. And boy, was it a great ride. ROCKSTAR OF THE ROAD During my first few days in Austin, I attended another travel bloggers conference and one night, over a few beers at one of the social events, I met Ed and Jeanie – a charming couple from Houston. We got along rather well, and at the end of the night, Ed offered for me to stay at their place for a few days when I got to Houston. I wasn't sure if it was the beers talking, but I took him up on his offer and said that I would love to.  So here I was, heading from Austin to Houston in a little open-top two-seater sports car. It's a 2.5 hours' drive, and I had a blast hitting the open highways, feeling the wind brush through my hair; I felt like a rock star even though it was a bit scary being all the way down that close to the road with the huge 20-ton Texan trucks driving alongside me, hardly being able to see me all the way down there. I felt I was driving a go-kart and could drive under them without any problems… but I decided against it.  TRAILER PARK LIVING As I'm sure you can imagine, the car made a few heads turn as I was slowly making my way through the trailer park to Jeanie and Ed's trailer — my home for the next couple of days.  Ed is a tall Texan, so everyone calls him Big Ed. As I arrive, I'm greeted by Big Ed and his friend Randy who were on the front porch having a few cold ones. Keeping them company was a cute little white dog called Yogi Bear.  "Woah, look at you man. Fuckin' pimpin'. That's great man, I can't believe you found us," says Big Ed as I head over to greet him.  Jeanie's and Big Ed's trailer is big. It is 16x80 feet (5x24 meters), and if you didn't know it, you would think it's a normal little 120m² house. Especially when you step inside, it's got a corridor and several rooms including two bathrooms.  So, it's not the kind of caravan that you would hook up to your car and go on a summer vacation. Well, maybe here in Texas with a big-ass truck in front of it, you could. But this one hasn't been moved since it got here a few years ago.  Big Ed is retired, and since he doesn't have to get up early, he likes to stay up late watching sports or Fox News on their big flatscreen TV — easily until 3-4a m each night. Jeanie usually goes to bed earlier because she still works (or was at the time of the recording, but she just retired in 2021).  So, for Ed not to wake her up in the middle of the night, they have separate bedrooms. But while I'm there, Ed is letting me have his bedroom and will sneak into her big waterbed, which he doesn't seem to mind.  As the sun slowly started to set, it started to rain. So, I sat down with Big Ed on his front porch for a chat to find out more about my hospitable host. PORCH CHATS WITH BIG ED The rain, unfortunately, prevented Big Ed from making his "not-so world famous" BBQ spare ribs for us. But he assured me that I would be treated to them the next evening. Big Ed tells me about how he and Jeanie came to live in this trailer park. "We have a lovely little cottage, if you will, that my wife has put almost $30,000 into making a home. We've put granite countertops in the kitchen and put in new bathtubs among other things. It's a lovely little place for myself and my wife to live with our little puppy dog, Yogi Bear. I built an outside porch area in the back that I turned into a bar where we can have live music and entertain." You can't really call it a trailer as it has no wheels. Big Ed tells me that they remove the wheels upon delivery of the cottage to ensure people don't pick up and leave in the middle of the night to evade outstanding payments. TRAVELLING TRAILER PARKERS Big Ed and his "beautiful Jeanie" travel around the world a lot because Jeanie used to work for United Airlines, which entitles them to free airfares whenever they please. They can simply walk up to the ticket counter and choose any destination, and they don't pay any fees, not even for their luggage. They have certainly made the most of it. When people ask Bid Ed where they have travelled to, he finds it easier to list continents rather than countries as the list would be too long.  For every New Year's Eve, they like to visit capital cities. Thus far, they have visited most of the major capital cities around the world, from Paris to Phnom Penh. Next up is Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Big Ed and Jeanie are certainly uncharacteristic: I mean, you don't meet many world-travelling jet setters who live in a trailer park in Texas. And this is just one of many incredible un-stereotypical things about this wholesome couple from Houston. "Only about 42% of Americans have passports, and of them not many get out and travel. So, not only do we find ourselves in a unique position but many of our friends and widespread acquaintances look to us for interesting stories that we have been lucky enough to experience here, there, and everywhere around the world." Big Ed is certainly a well-travelled, intelligent, and interesting man. I really enjoyed our chat on the porch, but I had to go to bed because I had an exciting day planned across town. I'm going to the place where they were communicating with the first man on the moon.  PODCAST RECOMMENDATION I have another great podcast recommendation. This is a podcast that is for someone like me: someone whose kids have grown up and left the house and you've become an empty nester — or, as Tessa and Amir call it, an "Open Nester." Listen to The Open Nester podcast here. SPACE CENTER HOUSTON After about a 1.5-hour drive from Big Ed and Jeanie's place, I arrived at the Space Center Houston. I was immediately met with an amazing view of a huge jumbo jet with a space shuttle connected to the roof of it. I was very excited to find out more about American space history. Houston, I have arrived... Since opening in 1992, Space Center Houston has welcomed more than 22 million visitors from all over the world — and today, they can add one more dashing Dane to the list. They host nearly 1.25 million visitors each year in its 250,000-square-foot educational complex. That's more than 23,000 square meters.  Known around the world as the home of NASA Mission Control, International Space Station Mission Control, and astronaut training center, guests are taken behind the scenes to see NASA's Johnson Space Center. Johnson Space Center (JSC) and NASA have a tremendous story to tell. Before they opened to the public, they had artefacts and models displayed in the hallways of the employee auditorium. Hal Stall, director of Public Affairs at JSC, likened it to "displaying the Hope Diamond in a shoe box." So, in 1992 they decided to make it public. After an introduction film, I went on their NASA Tram Tour where we went around the area and one of the things that impressed me the most was the real Saturn V rocket. It is displayed vertically in a big warehouse. The Saturn V rocket is 111 meters (363 feet) tall, about the height of a 36-story-tall building, and 18 meters (60 feet) taller than the Statue of Liberty. And has the weight of about 400 elephants.  It was the most powerful rocket that had ever flown successfully and was used in the Apollo program in the 1960s and 1970s. Just walking around it from the pointy tip of the rocket on one end to the five big booster rockets on the other end makes you realise the sheer scale of it.  We then walked on an elevated path through the building where NASA astronauts train for current missions. This is also where NASA's scientists and engineers are developing the next generation of space exploration vehicles.  And then we entered possibly the most iconic place: Mission Control. And it's the real deal. This is the exact place where NASA's team led the Gemini and Apollo missions, including when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon.  It's also possible to enter the replica of the Independence shuttle, mounted on top of a giant plane, that is the historic and original NASA 905 shuttle carrier aircraft. Inside the jumbo jet, there's a very interesting exhibition.  But there is so much more: Lunar Modules, space suits, interactive exhibitions, and Space Center Houston also has the world's largest collection of moon rocks and lunar samples on display. There is so much to see, and it's easy to spend a full day here. You can see more and book tickets on SpaceCenter.org. BACK IN THE TRAILER PARK  When I returned to Big Ed and Jeanie's trailer, Big Ed was working his barbeque magic, making his "not-so famous" spareribs he promised me the night before. They were so delicious that they should, in fact, be world-famous. After we ate dinner, Big Ed and I resumed our positions on the porch and continued our conversation. I asked him to tell me a bit more about Houston. Having lived here since 1954 after moving when he was just five years old (still "Little Ed"), he's been here so long and can't really say anything bad about it.  "Houston has just become the 4th largest city in the US (behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago) having just surpassed Philadelphia. It's not really a vacation destination per se, it is just a really great city that makes a lot of money. The Space Center Houston created an incredible amount of cash flow for Houston. In the 60's, all the astronauts were our heroes around here and we followed each major NASA mission." Remember the episode from Maine where I got into trouble talking about politics? Herewith Ed, the conversations are interesting and with a lot of respect for each other's points of view. Ed knew that I probably isn't a big Trump fan, and I knew that he probably is. And still, we could talk about what was going on in the world with the respect that we probably won't agree on everything.  Obviously, Texas is right here on the border to Mexico, and Ed and Jeanie have been south of it many times. Big Ed tells me about his travels through their southern neighbours and also around the Caribbean. They really love Belize and have returned there 12 times, exploring the coast and the surrounding islands. One of Big Ed and Jeanie's bucket list items is to visit Easter Island. They are planning to fly to Chile and hop on a 5-hour prop-plane flight to Easter Island, then take another prop-plane flight to Tahiti. The most important thing for this amazing couple is that they don't only place value in the destinations they visit, but also the incredible people they will meet and the interesting things they will learn. I really enjoyed my stay with Big Ed and all of our great conversations. NEXT EPISODE  I'm staying a bit longer here in Houston, and in the next episode, I visit one of the locals and an old friend of mine. His name is Doug Harris, and he is an amazing person that I've known for many years. We've even seen many parts of the world together.  That's next week on The Radio Vagabond. So, for now, it's goodbye to Jeanie and Big Ed and off to another part of this huge city.  My name is Palle Bo, and I gotta keep moving. See you.     CR-APPLE CR-APP Here in the spring of 2021, when I'm editing this episode, Apple announced that they just made the biggest changes to their podcasting app since podcasting began. So, I decided to update to the latest iOS when it was possible for me this week. It's the one called IOS 14.6. I was most of all expecting a better podcast listening experience.  If you're considering doing the same, please don't. Or, please wait until they have fixed all the bugs.  First, a lot of my apps don't work in this new iOS… yet. That will probably come soon. But the worst part is the new Apple Podcasting app.  I don't know how to say it more clearly other than it has become the worst crappy app. Hardly anything works. It is so bad that I actually started using other apps – right now, I'm using Spotify. And who knows if I get so used to Spotify, then I will stay there.  Apple Podcast is still the top dog in podcasting, but Spotify is number two and gaining many followers. And with this move, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple gets usurped soon. Don't get me wrong; I'm still an Apple fan. I have an iPhone, a MacBook, and an iPad, and I normally love everything they do. But this is so bad. So, if anyone at Apple is listening (and they're probably not able to if they upgraded to the new iOS)… get your sh**… ehh… act together.  My short message is: don't upgrade just yet. Wait until Tim Apple and the team have fixed all the bugs… Okay, my rant is over. I just had to get it off my chest.

From the moment Adam King winked at the camera as he arrived onto the set of the Toy Show on Friday night, he had won the heart of the nation. The six year old, who hopes to work in NASA Mission Control when he's older, was the star of the show as he spoke of his life with brittle bones and why he's been carrying around a 'virtual hug' sign since the pandemic hit. Speaking to Dermot and Dave, Adam's dad John, explained where Adam's love from space comes from and revealed that his arrival back to school on Monday was marked with a special (socially distanced) guard of honour. And John also told Dermot and Dave about the heartwarming reason that Adam winked at the camera on his way out. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/12/01112754/JohnKing_0112.mp3"][/audio]

This week's episode features Mr. Gregory Walker who works as Flight Controller at NASA for the International Space Station. Mr. Walker is a former Cedar Valley Middle School student and graduated from McNeil High School before going on to graduate from The University of Texas. Happy Listening!

Steven W. Lockley, Ph.D is a Neuroscientist in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and an Affiliated Faculty member of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard School of Public Health. He received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Biology from the University of Manchester, UK in 1992 and a PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Surrey, UK in 1997. He joined the faculty at Surrey in 1999 and the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2003. “ The problems caused by jet lag cannot be tackled using generic advice, which is oversimplistic and can often be counterproductive, making jet lag worse. Each traveler and trip is different and requires a personalized approach taking your sleep pattern, chronotype, flight plan, and a range of personal preferences into account. — Steven W. Lockley, Ph.D. With nearly 25 years of research experience in circadian rhythm and sleep, Dr. Lockley is a specialist in ways to reset the circadian clock, particularly the role of light and melatonin. He has studied the effects of light on the circadian pacemaker extensively including the role of light wavelength, timing, duration and pattern. This work has led to development of ‘smart’ lighting applications designed to improve alertness, safety and productivity. He was also the first to show that daily melatonin administration could reset the biological clocks of totally blind people and treat non-24-hour sleep-wake disorder (N24HSWD), a serious circadian rhythm disorder. These studies inspired the clinical trials that led to the approval of tasimelteon, a melatonin agonist, as the first FDA- and EMA-approved drug to treat N24HSWD in the blind. Dr Lockley has also studied the impact of circadian disruption, long work hours, sleepiness and sleep disorders on performance and health in occupational groups, including doctors, police and firefighters, and has led several workplace interventions that have reduced workplace errors and injury. He also advises NASA on how to alleviate jetlag for astronauts traveling the globe and how to reduce the problems associated with shiftwork at NASA Mission Control. Dr. Lockley has published more than 150 original reports, reviews, chapters and editorials on circadian rhythms and sleep and his research is funded by NASA and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) among others. He has won a number of awards including a Wellcome Trust International Prize Research Travelling Fellowship, the Sleep Research Society Young Investigator Award, the Healthy Sleep Community Award (as part of the Harvard Work Hours Health and Safety Group) from the National Sleep Foundation, the Harvard Club of Australia Foundation Harvard-Australia Fellowship, the Taylor Technical Talent Award from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and two awards from NASA: the Group Achievement Award (as part of the Chilean Miners NASA Rescue Support Team) and the Johnston Space Center Director's Innovation Team Award (as part of the ISS Flexible Lighting Team). He co-edited the first textbook on sleep and health ‘Sleep, health and society: From Aetiology to Public Health’ and recently co-authored ‘Sleep: A Very Short Introduction’ from Oxford University Press. Links mentioned in this episode: g (https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Introduction-Steven-W-Lockley/dp/019958785X) Dr. Lockley's Book: Sleep: A Very Short Introduction (https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Introduction-Steven-W-Lockley/dp/019958785X)

April Blackwell, an Aerospace Engineer who flies the International Space Station from NASA Mission Control, shared the story behind her title with us on Sunday, July 26, 2020.

Ed shares with Beth: Becoming a Space Camp Hall of Fame Honoree and meeting his childhood hero astronaut Charlie Duke Details regarding the many job responsibilities the NASA Mission Control Flight Director has, getting to crew to space safely and back home safely is always the first priority. Big and small success that are worth celebrating- and learning from- during days/ nights on the International Space Station   About Ed: Right Stuff” recipient Ed Van Cise knew before his trip to Space Camp® that NASA would be the where of his future. But it was Apollo 16 Moonwalker Charlie Duke’s presentation at Camp that led him to the how and what. Van Cise left that week knowing that he wanted to be an Aerospace Engineer, and eventually work at Johnson Space Center in Mission Control. And not long after, that is exactly where he was. Van Cise committed to his path and is currently the 78th Flight Director in NASA’s history. Since taking the call sign “Carbon Flight,” Ed has worked as Lead Flight Director for several different aspects of the International Space Station. Edward Van Cise methodically pursued his dream, earning awards and commendations for leadership, as well as respect from his peers. He continues that dream, today, fully dedicated to NASA and the future of human space exploration.   Where to find Ed Van Cise: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi_9j25Niv2NBm7L3pqbKrIkSdR53UeF9   and more information about NASA Flight Directors and Mission Control: https://www.nasa.gov and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8aWXJeh9R4

In this special edition of the Cosmosphere Podcast we hear from author Rick Houston about the book that he co-authored. It's called "Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control." You can find Rick's book here (https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803269378/) and it's available for purchase through booksellers everywhere. Check out the Go, Flight! podcast to hear more stories from Mission Control. Go, Flight with Rick Houston- Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/go-flight-with-rick-houston/id1407006257) Be sure to subscribe to the Cosmosphere Podcast and you'll never miss an episode. You can see all of the upcoming events and more by checking the Cosmosphere calendar. Cosmosphere Calendar (http://cosmo.org/news-and-events/calendar) You can contact the Cosmosphere's Box office at 620-665-9312 for upcoming events. Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Events (https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/apollo-50th-anniversary-celebration) Check out the Cosmosphere's Landing on the Lawn page. Landing on the Lawn (https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/landing-on-the-lawn) A huge thank you to Benoit Darcy, from Paris France for allowing us to use "Hypergolic" from the album "Apollo" for the podcast. Check it out through your music service of choice. Apollo - EP Away From Earth (http://smarturl.it/apolloEP)

In today's episode you'll hear from Gene Kranz. He was speaking at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum for an Apollo 11 pre-launch breakfast. Thanks again to Ben and everyone at the museum for hosting this event and letting me share the audio from that day with all of you. Bear with me on the audio. We were inside a hangar, so the acoustics weren't ideal for a podcast, but it was an awesome place to be. Check out the Wings Over the Rockies museum next time you're in Colorado. There's some beautiful aircraft on display and it's worth a stop!

In this special edition of the Cosmosphere Podcast we hear from author Rick Houston about the book that he co-authored. It's called "Go, Flight! The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control." You can find Rick's book here (https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803269378/) and it's available for purchase through booksellers everywhere. Check out the Go, Flight! podcast to hear more stories from Mission Control. Go, Flight with Rick Houston- Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/go-flight-with-rick-houston/id1407006257) Be sure to subscribe to the Cosmosphere Podcast and you'll never miss an episode. You can see all of the upcoming events and more by checking the Cosmosphere calendar. Cosmosphere Calendar (http://cosmo.org/news-and-events/calendar) You can contact the Cosmosphere's Box office at 620-665-9312 for upcoming events. Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Events (https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/apollo-50th-anniversary-celebration) Check out the Cosmosphere's Landing on the Lawn page. Landing on the Lawn (https://cosmo.org/news-and-events/landing-on-the-lawn) A huge thank you to Benoit Darcy, from Paris France for allowing us to use "Hypergolic" from the album "Apollo" for the podcast. Check it out through your music service of choice. Apollo - EP Away From Earth (http://smarturl.it/apolloEP)

This week on Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Kiernan speaks with NASA’s Sandra Tetley, who oversaw the brand spankin’ new restoration of Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Visitors will experience Apollo 11’s launch, moon landing, and return as if they were there. Tetley talks about the detective work that goes into restoration—and several historic NASA sites that are slated for demolition. Things we talked about in today’s podcast: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/behind-the-scenes-at-nasas-newly-restored-historic-apollo-mission-control/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/space-tourism-with-professor-matthew-weinzierl/id1438098925?i=1000428689021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_quarantine_facility https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/dominican-republic-tourism-deaths-not-unusual-overblown.html http://www.scoutingny.com/demonically-possessed-owls-in-herald-square/

Management isn’t rocket science. It’s harder than rocket science. At least, that’s what Paul Hill, former director of mission operations at NASA, believes. Paul has spent most of his life around rockets: first as a child growing up near the Kennedy Space Center, and then as an adult in mission control. From designing space stations to investigating the explosion of the Columbia space shuttle, Paul has had a front-row seat to the victories and tragedies of the space program.  Join us as we discuss Paul’s solution to the budget cuts; his epiphanies on management at NASA; and how learning management techniques from NASA Mission Control can help your team disrupt itself and stay relevant in rapidly changing environments. Complete show notes and links at https://whitneyjohnson.com/paul-hill

Today's episode is coming to you very late, after a long moving and road trip day. It's worth it though, tomorrow is going to be a great experience. By the time most of you listen to this episode I will already be at the SpaceWorks facility in Hutchinson. Be sure to follow along online for MOCR content throughout the day on Monday the 29th. Connect with me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, just click the links below. Facebook (https://m.facebook.com/thespaceshot/) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/johnmulnix/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/johnmulnix)

TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH. This episode was brought to you by Headlines TrueOS stable release 17.12 (https://www.trueos.org/blog/trueos-17-12-release/) We are pleased to announce a new release of the 6-month STABLE version of TrueOS! This release cycle focused on lots of cleanup and stabilization of the distinguishing features of TrueOS: OpenRC, boot speed, removable-device management, SysAdm API integrations, Lumina improvements, and more. We have also been working quite a bit on the server offering of TrueOS, and are pleased to provide new text-based server images with support for Virtualization systems such as bhyve! This allows for simple server deployments which also take advantage of the TrueOS improvements to FreeBSD such as: Sane service management and status reporting with OpenRC Reliable, non-interactive system update mechanism with fail-safe boot environment support. Graphical management of remote TrueOS servers through SysAdm (also provides a reliable API for administrating systems remotely). LibreSSL for all base SSL support. Base system managed via packages (allows for additional fine-tuning). Base system is smaller due to the removal of the old GCC version in base. Any compiler and/or version may be installed and used via packages as desired. Support for newer graphics drivers and chipsets (graphics, networking, wifi, and more) TrueOS Version 17.12 (2017, December) is now available for download from the TrueOS website. Both the STABLE and UNSTABLE package repositories have also been updated in-sync with each other, so current users only need to follow the prompts about updating their system to run the new release. We are also pleased to announce the availability of TrueOS Sponsorships! If you would like to help contribute to the project financially we now have the ability to accept both one-time donations as well as recurring monthly donations which wil help us advocate for TrueOS around the world. Thank you all for using and supporting TrueOS! Notable Changes: Over 1100 OpenRC services have been created for 3rd-party packages. This should ensure the functionality of nearly all available 3rd-party packages that install/use their own services. The OpenRC services for FreeBSD itself have been overhauled, resulting in significantly shorter boot times. Separate install images for desktops and servers (server image uses a text/console installer) Bhyve support for TrueOS Server Install FreeBSD base is synced with 12.0-CURRENT as of December 4th, 2017 (Github commit: 209d01f) FreeBSD ports tree is synced as of November 30th (pre-FLAVOR changes) Lumina Desktop has been updated/developed from 1.3.0 to 1.4.1 PCDM now supports multiple simultaneous graphical sessions Removable devices are now managed through the “automounter” service. Devices are “announced” as available to the system via *.desktop shortcuts in /media. These shortcuts also contain a variety of optional “Actions” that may be performed on the device. Devices are only mounted while they are being used (such as when browsing via the command line or a file manager). Devices are automatically unmounted as soon as they stop being accessed. Integrated support for all major filesystems (UFS, EXT, FAT, NTFS, ExFAT, etc..) NOTE: The Lumina desktop is the only one which supports this functionality at the present time. The TrueOS update system has moved to an “active” update backend. This means that the user will need to actually start the update process by clicking the “Update Now” button in SysAdm, Lumina, or PCDM (as well as the command-line option). The staging of the update files is still performed automatically by default but this (and many other options) can be easily changed in the “Update Manager” settings as desired. Known Errata: [VirtualBox] Running FreeBSD within a VirtualBox VM is known to occasionally receive non-existent mouse clicks – particularly when using a scroll wheel or two-finger scroll. Quick Links: TrueOS Forums (https://discourse.trueos.org/) TrueOS Bugs (https://github.com/trueos/trueos-core/issues) TrueOS Handbook (https://www.trueos.org/handbook/trueos.html) TrueOS Community Chat on Telegram (https://t.me/TrueOSCommunity) *** OpenBSD Workstation Guide (https://begriffs.com/posts/2017-05-17-linux-workstation-guide.html) Design Goals User actions should complete instantaneously. While I understand if compiling code and rendering videos takes time, opening programs and moving windows should have no observable delay. The system should use minimalist tools. Corollary: cache data offline when possible. Everything from OpenStreetMaps to StackExchange can be stored locally. No reason to repeatedly hit the internet to query them. This also improves privacy because the initial download is indiscriminate and doesn't reveal personal queries or patterns of computer activity. No idling program should use a perceptible amount of CPU. Why does CalendarAgent on my Macbook sometimes use 150% CPU for fifteen minutes? Who knows. Why are background ChromeHelpers chugging along at upper-single-digit CPU? I didn't realize that holding a rendered DOM could be so challenging. Avoid interpreted languages, web-based desktop apps, and JavaScript garbage. There, I said it. Take your Electron apps with you to /dev/null! Stability. Old fashioned programs on a conservative OS on quality mainstream hardware. There are enough challenges to tackle without a bleeding edge system being one of them. Delegate to quality hardware components. Why use a janky ncurses software audio mixer when you can use…an actual audio mixer? Hardware privacy. No cameras or microphones that I can't physically disconnect. Also real hardware protection for cryptographic keys. Software privacy. Commercial software and operating systems have gotten so terrible about this. I even catch Mac command line tools trying to call Google Analytics. Sorry homebrew, your cute emojis don't make up for the surveillance. The Hardware Core To get the best hardware for the money I'm opting for a desktop computer. Haven't had one since the early 2000s and it feels anachronistic, but it will outperform a laptop of similar cost. After much searching, I found the HP Z240 Tower Workstation. It's no-nonsense and supports exactly the customizations I was looking for: No operating system pre-loaded (Cut out the “Windows tax”) Intel Xeon E3-1270 v6 processor (Supports ECC ram) 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR4-2400 ECC Unbuffered memory (2400Mhz is the full memory clock speed supported by the Xeon) 256 GB HP Z Turbo Drive G2 PCIe SSD (Uses NVMe rather than SATA for faster throughput, supported by nvme(4)) No graphics card (We'll add our own) Intel® Ethernet I210-T1 PCIe (Supported by em(4)) A modest discrete video card will enable 2D Glamor acceleration on X11. The Radeon HD 6450 (sold separately) is fanless and listed as supported by radeon(4). Why build a solid computer and not protect it? Externally, the APC BR1300G UPS will protect the system from power surges and abrupt shutdowns. Peripherals The Matias Ergo Pro uses mechanical switches for that old fashioned clicky sound. It also includes dedicated buttons along the side for copying and pasting. Why is that cool? Well, it improves secondary selection, a technique that Sun computers used but time forgot. Since we're talking about a home office workstation, you may want a printer. The higher quality printers speak PostScript and PDF natively. Unix machines connect to them on TCP port 9100 and send PostScript commands directly. (You can print via telnet if you know the commands!) The Brother HL-L5100DN is a duplex LaserJet which allows that “raw” TCP printing. Audio/Video I know a lot of people enjoy surrounding themselves with a wall of monitors like they're in the heart of NASA Mission Control, but I find multi-monitor setups slightly disorienting. It introduces an extra bit of cognitive overhead to determine which monitor is for what exactly. That's why I'd go with a modest, crisp Dell UltraSharp 24" U2417H. It's 1080p and yeah there are 4k monitors nowadays, but text and icons are small enough as it is for me! If I ever considered a second monitor it would be e-ink for comfortably reading electronic copies of books or long articles. The price is currently too high to justify the purchase, but the most promising monitor seems to be the Dasung Paperlike. In the other direction, video input, it's more flexible to use a general-purpose HDMI capture box like the Rongyuxuan than settle on a particular webcam. This allows hooking up a real camera, or any other video device. Although the motherboard for this system has built-in audio, we should use a card with better OpenBSD support. The WBTUO PCIe card uses a C-Media CMI8768 chipset, handled by cmpci(4). The card provides S/PDIFF in and out ports if you ever want to use an external DAC or ADC. The way to connect it with other things is with a dedicated hardware mixer. The Behringer Xenyx 802 has all the connections needed, and the ability to route audio to and from the computer and a variety of devices at once. The mixer may seem an odd peripheral, but I want to mix the computer with an old fashioned CD player, ham radio gear, and amplifier so this unifies the audio setup. When doing remote pair programming or video team meetings it's nice to have a quality microphone. The best ones for this kind of work are directional, with a cardioid reception pattern. The MXL 770 condenser mic is perfect, and uses a powered XLR connection supplied by the mixer. Backups We're going dead simple and old-school, back to tapes. There are a set of tape standards called LTO-n. As n increases the tape capacity gets bigger, but the tape drive gets more expensive. In my opinion the best balance these days for the home user is LTO-3. You can usually find an HP Ultrium 960 LTO-3 on eBay for 150 dollars. The cartridges hold 800GB and are about 15 dollars apiece. Hard drives keep coming down in price, but these tapes are very cheap and simpler than keeping a bunch of disk drives. Also tape has proven longevity, and good recoverability. To use old fashioned tech like this you need a SCSI host bus adapter like the Adaptec 29320LPE, supported by ahd(4). Cryptography You don't want to generate and store secret keys on a general purpose network attached computer. The attack surface is a mile wide. Generating or manipulating “offline” secret keys needs to happen on a separate computer with no network access. Little boards like the Raspberry Pi would be good except they use ARM processors (incompatible with Tails OS) and have wifi. The JaguarBoard is a small x86 machine with no wireless capability. Just switch the keyboard and monitor over to this machine for your “cleanroom.” jaguar board: Generating keys requires entropy. The Linux kernel on Tails samples system properties to generate randomness, but why not help it out with a dedicated true random number generator (TRNG)? Bit Babbler supplies pure randomness at a high bitrate through USB. (OneRNG works better on the OpenBSD main system, via uonerng(4).) bit babbler: This little computer will save its results onto a OpenPGP Smartcard V2.1. This card provides write-only access to keys, and computes cryptographic primitives internally to sign and encrypt messages. To use it with a regular computer, hook up a Cherry ST2000 card reader. This reader has a PIN pad built in, so no keylogger on the main computer could even obtain your decryption PIN. The Software We take the beefed up hardware above and pair it with ninja-fast software written in C. Some text-based, others raw X11 graphical apps unencumbered by ties to any specific window manager. I'd advise OpenBSD for the underlying operating system, not a Linux. OpenBSD has greater internal consistency, their man pages are impeccable, and they make it a priority to prune old code to keep the system minimal. What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? (https://dave.cheney.net/2017/12/04/what-have-we-learned-from-the-pdp-11) The paper I have chosen tonight is a retrospective on a computer design. It is one of a series of papers by Gordon Bell, and various co-authors, spanning the design, growth, and eventual replacement of the companies iconic line of PDP-11 mini computers. This year represents the 60th anniversary of the founding of the company that produced the PDP-11. It is also 40 years since this paper was written, so I thought it would be entertaining to review Bell's retrospective through the lens of our own 20/20 hindsight. To set the scene for this paper, first we should talk a little about the company that produced the PDP-11, the Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts. Better known as DEC. It's also worth noting that the name PDP is an acronym for “Programmed Data Processor”, as at the time, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and DEC's venture capitalists would not support them if they built a “computer” A computer is not solely determined by its architecture; it reflects the technological, economic, and human aspects of the environment in which it was designed and built. […] The finished computer is a product of the total design environment. “Right from the get go, Bell is letting us know that the success of any computer project is not abstractly building the best computer but building the right computer, and that takes context.” It is the nature of computer engineering to be goal-oriented, with pressure to produce deliverable products. It is therefore difficult to plan for an extensive lifetime. Because of the open nature of the PDP-11, anything which interpreted the instructions according to the processor specification, was a PDP-11, so there had been a rush within DEC, once it was clear that the PDP-11 market was heating up, to build implementations; you had different groups building fast, expensive ones and cost reduced slower ones The first weakness of minicomputers was their limited addressing capability. The biggest (and most common) mistake that can be made in a computer design is that of not providing enough address bits for memory addressing and management. A second weakness of minicomputers was their tendency not to have enough registers. This was corrected for the PDP-11 by providing eight 16-bit registers. Later, six 32-bit registers were added for floating-point arithmetic. […] More registers would increase the multiprogramming context switch time and confuse the user. “It's also interesting to note Bell's concern that additional registers would confuse the user. In the early 1970's the assumption that the machine would be programmed directly in assembly was still the prevailing mindset.” A third weakness of minicomputers was their lack of hardware stack capability. In the PDP-11, this was solved with the autoincrement/autodecrement addressing mechanism. This solution is unique to the PDP-11 and has proven to be exceptionally useful. (In fact, it has been copied by other designers.) “Nowadays it's hard to imagine hardware that doesn't have a notion of a stack, but consider that a stack isn't important if you don't need recursion.” “The design for the PDP-11 was laid down in 1969 and if we look at the programming languages of the time, FORTRAN and COBOL, neither supported recursive function calls. The function call sequence would often store the return address at a blank word at the start of the procedure making recursion impossible.” A fourth weakness, limited interrupt capability and slow context switching, was essentially solved with the device of UNIBUS interrupt vectors, which direct device interrupts. The basic mechanism is very fast, requiring only four memory cycles from the time an interrupt request is issued until the first instruction of the interrupt routine begins execution. A fifth weakness of prior minicomputers, inadequate character-handling capability, was met in the PDP-11 by providing direct byte addressing capability. “Strings and character handling were of increasing importance during the 1960's as scientific and business computing converged. The predominant character encodings at the time were 6 bit character sets which provided just enough space for upper case letters, the digits 0 to 9, space, and a few punctuation characters sufficient for printing financial reports.” “Because memory was so expensive, placing one 6 bit character into a 12 or 18 bit word was simply unacceptable so characters would be packed into words. This proved efficient for storage, but complex for operations like move, compare, and concatenate, which had to account for a character appearing in the top or bottom of the word, expending valuable words of program storage to cope.” “The problem was addressed in the PDP-11 by allowing the machine to operate on memory as both a 16-bit word, and the increasingly popular 8-bit byte. The expenditure of 2 additional bits per character was felt to be worth it for simpler string handling, and also eased the adoption of the increasingly popular 7-bit ASCII standard of which DEC were a proponent at the time. Bell concludes this point with the throw away line:” Although string instructions are not yet provided in the hardware, the common string operations (move, compare, concatenate) can be programmed with very short loops. A sixth weakness, the inability to use read-only memories, was avoided in the PDP-11. Most code written for the PDP-11 tends to be pure and reentrant without special effort by the programmer, allowing a read-only memory (ROM) to be used directly. A seventh weakness, one common to many minicomputers, was primitive I/O capabilities. A ninth weakness of minicomputers was the high cost of programming them. Many users program in assembly language, without the comfortable environment of editors, file systems, and debuggers available on bigger systems. The PDP-11 does not seem to have overcome this weakness, although it appears that more complex systems are being built successfully with the PDP-11 than with its predecessors, the PDP-8 and PDP-15. The problems faced by computer designers can usually be attributed to one of two causes: inexperience or second-systemitis Before the PDP-11, there was no UNIX. Before the PDP-11, there was no C, this is the computer that C was designed on. If you want to know why the classical C int is 16 bits wide, it's because of the PDP-11. UNIX bought us ideas such as pipes, everything is a file, and interactive computing. UNIX, which had arrived at Berkley in 1974 aboard a tape carried by Ken Thompson, would evolve into the west coast flavoured Berkley Systems Distribution. Berkeley UNIX had been ported to the VAX by the start of the 1980's and was thriving as the counter cultural alternative to DEC's own VMS operating system. Berkeley UNIX spawned a new generation of hackers who would go on to form companies like Sun micro systems, and languages like Self, which lead directly to the development of Java. UNIX was ported to a bewildering array of computer systems during the 80's and the fallout from the UNIX wars gave us the various BSD operating systems who continue to this day. The article, and the papers it is summarizing, contain a lot more than we could possibly dig into even if we dedicated the entire show to the topic *** News Roundup Two-factor authentication SSH with Duo in FreeBSD 11 (https://www.teachnix.com/2017/11/29/configuring-two-factor-authentication-on-freebsd-with-duo/) This setup uses an SSH key as the first factor of authentication. Please watch Part 1 on setting up SSH keys and how to scp it to your server. Video guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5EuvF-iaV0) Register for a free account at Duo.com Install the Duo package on your FreeBSD server pkg install -y duo Log into the Duo site > Applications > Protect an Application > Search for Unix application > Protect this Application This will generate the keys we need to configure Duo. Edit the Duo config file using the course notes template vi /usr/local/etc/pam_duo.conf Example config [duo] ; Duo integration key ikey = Integration key goes here ; Duo secret key skey = Secret key goes here ; Duo API host host = API hostname goes here Change the permissions of the Duo config file. If the permissions are not correct then the service will not function properly. chmod 600 /usr/local/etc/pam_duo.conf Edit the SSHD config file using the course notes template vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config Example config ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 Port 22 PasswordAuthentication no UsePAM yes ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes UseDNS no PermitRootLogin yes AuthenticationMethods publickey,keyboard-interactive Edit PAM to configure SSHD for Duo using the course notes template Example config ``` # auth auth sufficient pamopie.so nowarn nofakeprompts auth requisite pamopieaccess.so nowarn allowlocal auth required /usr/local/lib/security/pamduo.so # session # session optional pamssh.so wantagent session required pam_permit.so # password # password sufficient pamkrb5.so nowarn tryfirstpass password required pamunix.so nowarn tryfirstpass ``` Restart the sshd service service sshd restart SSH into your FreeBSD server and follow the link it outputs to enroll your phone with Duo. ssh server.example.com SSH into your server again ssh server.example.com Choose your preferred method and it should log you into your server. FreeBSD 2017 Release Engineering Recap (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2017-release-engineering-recap/) This past year was undoubtedly a rather busy and successful year for the Release Engineering Team. Throughout the year, development snapshot builds for FreeBSD-CURRENT and supported FreeBSD-STABLE branches were continually provided. In addition, work to package the base system using pkg(8) continued throughout the year and remains ongoing. The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team worked on the FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, with the code slush starting mid-May. The FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE cycle stayed on schedule, with the final release build starting July 21, and the final release announcement following on July 25, building upon the stability and reliability of 11.0-RELEASE. Milestones during the 11.1-RELEASE cycle can be found on the 11.1 schedule page (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/schedule.html). The final announcement is available here (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html). The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team started the FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE cycle, led by Marius Strobl. The FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE cycle continued on schedule, with the only adjustments to the schedule being the addition of BETA4 and the removal of RC3. FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE builds upon the stability and reliability of FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE, and is planned to be the final release from the stable/10 branch. Milestones during the 10.4-RELEASE cycle can be found on the 10.4 schedule page (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/schedule.html). The final announcement is available here (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/announce.html). In addition to these releases, support for additional arm single-board computer images were added, notably Raspberry Pi 3 and Pine64. Additionally, release-related documentation effective 12.0-RELEASE and later has been moved from the base system repository to the documentation repository, making it possible to update related documentation as necessary post-release. Additionally, the FreeBSD Release Engineering article in the Project Handbook had been rewritten to outline current practices used by the Release Engineering Team. For more information on the procedures and processes the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team follows, the new article is available here and continually updated as procedures change. Finally, following the availability of FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE, Glen Barber attended the September Developer Summit hosted at vBSDCon in Reston, VA, USA, where he gave a brief talk comprising of several points relating directly to the 11.1-RELEASE cycle. In particular, some of the points covered included what he felt went well during the release cycle, what did not go as well as it could have, and what we, as a Project, could do better to improve the release process. The slides from the talk are available in the FreeBSD Wiki. During the question and answer time following the talk, some questions asked included: Q: Should developers use the ‘Relnotes' tag in the Subversion commit template more loosely, at risk of an increase in false positives. A: When asked when the tag in the template was initially added, the answer would have been “no”, however in hindsight it is easier to sift through the false positives, than to comb through months or years of commit logs. Q: What issues are present preventing moving release-related documentation to the documentation repository? A: There were some rendering issues last time it was investigated, but it is really nothing more than taking the time to fix those issues. (Note, that since this talk, the migration of the documentation in question had moved.) Q: Does it make sense to extend the timeframe between milestone builds during a release cycle from one week to two weeks, to allow more time for testing, for example, RC1 versus RC2? A: No. It would extend the length of the release cycle with no real benefit between milestones since as we draw nearer to the end of a given release cycle, the number of changes to that code base significantly reduce. FLIMP - GIMP Exploit on FreeBSD (https://flimp.fuzzing-project.org) In 2014, when starting the Fuzzing Project (https://fuzzing-project.org/), Hanno Böck did some primitive fuzzing on GIMP and reported two bugs. They weren't fixed and were forgotten in the public bug tracker. Recently Tobias Stöckmann found one of these bugs (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739133) (CVE-2017-17785) and figured out that it's easy to exploit. What kind of bug is that? It's a classic heap buffer overflow in the FLIC parser. FLIC is a file format for animations and was introduced by Autodesk Animator. How does the exploit work? Tobias has created a detailed writeup (https://flimp.fuzzing-project.org/exploit.html). The exploit doesn't work for me! We figured out it's unreliable and the memory addresses are depending on many circumstances. The exploit ZIP comes with two variations using different memory addresses. Try both of them. We also noticed putting the files in a subdirectory sometimes made the exploit work. Anything more to tell about the GIMP? There's a wide variety of graphics formats. GIMP tries to support many of them, including many legacy formats that nobody is using any more today. While this has obvious advantages - you can access the old images you may find on a backup CD from 1995 - it comes with risks. Support for many obscure file formats means many parsers that hardly anyone ever looks at. So... what about the other parsers? The second bug (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739134) (CVE-2017-17786), which is a simple overread, was in the TGA parser. Furthermore we found buffer overreads in the XCF parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790783) (CVE-2017-17788), the Gimp Brush (GBR) parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790784) (CVE-2017-17784) and the Paint Shop Pro (PSP) parser (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849) (CVE-2017-17789). We found another Heap buffer overflow (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790849) in the Paint Shop Pro parser (CVE-2017-17787) which is probably also exploitable. In other words: The GIMP import parsers are full of memory safety bugs. What should happen? First of all obviously all known memory safety bugs should be fixed. Furthermore we believe the way GIMP plugins work is not ideal for security testing. The plug-ins are separate executables, however they can't be executed on their own, as they communicate with the main GIMP process. Ideally either these plug-ins should be changed in a way that allows running them directly from the command line or - even better - they should be turned into libraries. The latter would also have the advantage of making the parser code useable for other software projects. Finally it might be a good idea to sandbox the import parsers. Dell FS12-NV7 Review – Bargain FreeBSD/ZFS box (http://blog.frankleonhardt.com/2017/dell-fs12-nv7-review-bargain-freebsdzfs-box/) It seems just about everyone selling refurbished data centre kit has a load of Dell FS12-NV7's to flog. Dell FS-what? You won't find them in the Dell catalogue, that's for sure. They look a bit like C2100s of some vintage, and they have a lot in common. But on closer inspection they're obviously a “special” for an important customer. Given the number of them knocking around, it's obviously a customer with big data, centres stuffed full of servers with a lot of processing to do. Here's a hint: It's not Google or Amazon. So, should you be buying a weirdo box with no documentation whatsoever? I'd say yes, definitely. If you're interests are anything like mine. In a 2U box you can get twin 4-core CPUs and 64Gb of RAM for £150 or less. What's not to like? Ah yes, the complete lack of documentation. Over the next few weeks I intend to cover that. And to start off this is my first PC review for nearly twenty years. As I mentioned, it's a 2U full length heavy metal box on rails. On the back there are the usual I/O ports: a 9-way RS-232, VGA, two 1Gb Ethernet, two USB2 and a PS/2 keyboard and mouse. The front is taken up by twelve 3.5″ hard drive bays, with the status lights and power button on one of the mounting ears to make room. Unlike other Dell servers, all the connections are on the back, only. So, in summary, you're getting a lot for your money if its the kind of thing you want. It's ideal as a high-performance Unix box with plenty of drive bays (preferably running BSD and ZFS). In this configuration it really shifts. Major bang-per-buck. Another idea I've had is using it for a flight simulator. That's a lot of RAM and processors for the money. If you forego the SAS controllers in the PCIe slots and dump in a decent graphics card and sound board, it's hard to see what's could be better (and you get jet engine sound effects without a speaker). So who should buy one of these? BSD geeks is the obvious answer. With a bit of tweaking they're a dream. It can build-absolutely-everything in 20-30 minutes. For storage you can put fast SAS drives in and it goes like the wind, even at 3Gb bandwidth per drive. I don't know if it works with FreeNAS but I can't see why not – I'm using mostly FreeBSD 11.1 and the generic kernel is fine. And if you want to run a load of weird operating systems (like Windows XP) in VM format, it seems to work very well with the Xen hypervisor and Dom0 under FreeBSD. Or CentOS if you prefer. So I shall end this review in true PCW style: Pros: Cheap Lots of CPUs, Lots of RAM Lots of HD slots Great for BSD/ZFS or VMs Cons: Noisy no AES-NI SAS needs upgrading Limited PCI slots As I've mentioned, the noise and SAS are easy and relatively cheap to fix, and thanks to BitCoin miners, even the PCI slot problem can be sorted. I'll talk about this in a later post. Beastie Bits Reflections on Hackathons (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20171126090055) 7-Part Video Crash Course on SaltStack For FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HijG0hWebZk&list=PL5yV8umka8YQOr1wm719In5LITdGzQMOF) The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_llvm_thread_sanitizer_has) The First Unix Port (1998) (http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/32bit/unix/univWollongong_v6/miller.pdf) arm64 platform now officially supported [and has syspatch(8)] (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20171208082238) BSDCan 2018 Call for Participation (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/bsdcan-2018-call-for-participation/) AsiaBSDCon 2018 Call for Papers (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers/asiabsdcon-2018-call-for-papers/) *** Feedback/Questions Shawn - DragonFlyBSD vagrant images (http://dpaste.com/3PRPJHG#wrap) Ben - undermydesk (http://dpaste.com/0AZ32ZB#wrap) Ken - Conferences (http://dpaste.com/3E8FQC6#wrap) Ben - ssh keys (http://dpaste.com/0E4538Q#wrap) SSH Chaining (https://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-chaining) ***

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino puts on his old CAPCOM headset and takes us inside Johnson Space Center, with a little help from his guests, Flight Directors Emily Nelson and Royce Renfrew, and co-host Maeve Higgins.Don't miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Subscribe on:SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_all-starsApple Podcasts: https://itun.es/us/P9kphb.cStitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk-allstarsTuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/StarTalk-All-Stars-p949405/Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/I2nz5bguurd5se7zu4fhnd25lk4NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino puts on his old CAPCOM headset and takes us inside Johnson Space Center, with a little help from his guests, Flight Directors Emily Nelson and Royce Renfrew, and co-host Maeve Higgins. Don’t miss an episode of StarTalk All-Stars. Subscribe on: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_all-stars Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/us/P9kphb.c Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk-allstars TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/StarTalk-All-Stars-p949405/ Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/I2nz5bguurd5se7zu4fhnd25lk4 NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino puts on his old CAPCOM headset and takes us inside Johnson Space Center, with a little help from his guests, Flight Directors Emily Nelson and Royce Renfrew, and co-host Maeve Higgins.

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino puts on his old CAPCOM headset and takes us inside Johnson Space Center, with a little help from his guests, Flight Directors Emily Nelson and Royce Renfrew, and co-host Maeve Higgins.

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino puts on his old CAPCOM headset and takes us inside Johnson Space Center, with a little help from his guests, Flight Directors Emily Nelson and Royce Renfrew, and co-host Maeve Higgins.

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Every morning on the Space Shuttle, a song is the first thing the astronauts hear. It is played by NASA Mission Control in Houston to rouse the astronauts from sleep. The songs are chosen for the astronauts by their friends and family, and played on days when they have a special job to do – [...]