
Episode 2: Astronauts of the Past and Future
The Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC). Our host, Bernie Guenther, and guest host, Jon Cowart, talk about the earliest rockets of the U.S. Space Program. We take a look at what's it's like to live on the International Space Station and how you can experience that at the KSCVC. We sit down with Eric Boe, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins from the Commercial Crew Program, and talk about what it means to be selected to the first manned missions from American soil since 2011 aboard the Boeing CST-100 Starliner Capsule and the SpaceX Dragon Capsule, which will launch in 2019. We show you the story of the Mercury 7, the original seven U.S. astronauts, and how they inspired decades of manned spaceflight. We also see if you would have what it takes to be an astronaut when we visit the Astronaut Training Experience at KSCVC.