In this episode of the SpaceGeeks podcast, Dan Leone talks to Ben Honey: A young flight controller for the International Space Station who has always known his Russian counterparts as colleagues, rather than communists.

SHOW NOTES:

Ben's blog.

Time-lapse video of a recent Soyuz relocation for which Ben was on console at Mission Control Houston.

How to tell if the International Space Station is whizzing through a sky near you.

All about the ISS, from NASA.

President Ronald Reagan calls for a "permanently manned" space station in his 1984 State of the Union address.