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hope it's the Japanese pressurized

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module this area that you're seeing

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right here around me and extending how

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about at least another 12 meters or 13

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meters behind me if I could turn that

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camera around and float it over to a

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window I could show you the exposed

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facility which is this spectacular

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location where we've got an airlock here

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and we can play scientific samples using

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a robotic arm out into the vacuum of

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space there's a number of pay roads out

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there right now but are doing science

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studying the Sun studying deep sky

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objects we've got materials payloads out

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many racks that are here that do

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everything from from cell biology this

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one behind me for the right in your

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camera view we've got a gradient heating

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furnace we actually have a crop of

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cucumbers that's that's being studied

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over here and it's a it's a special

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biology experiment that also gives us

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the net facility capability of centrally

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accelerating and studying in this case

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centrifuge and there's an experiment

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back towards the left of your view very

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deep in this field of view which allows

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you to acoustically levitate materials

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to actually process do processing of

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materials absent to gravity induce

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convection you have on planet earth and

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you can do those that experiment

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actually is is it still got some work to

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go to get it running but that's one of

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many facilities that are in here is a

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number of racks one of I think a total

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of eight that allow you to in a modular

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fashion install the small payloads that

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space station have be firmly controlled

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base station assets allow payload

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developers on the ground to work those

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u.s. segment on Space Station I'd like

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to do i think is try to give you a

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little bit of a virtual tour albeit

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using some of the fixed cameras that we

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have on Space Station and show you some

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of the other modules we don't have a lot

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of time and I can't show you into the

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Russian segment I can talk a little bit

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about the science that's going on there

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but unfortunately the video system that

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we have set up for today doesn't allow

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me to go far enough half to show you the

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equipment there but if you're ready I'll

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go ahead and take you over to the

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European experiment module the European

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module Columbus okay so this is the

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Columbus European module we do a lot of

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life sciences experiments here and

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there's also some fluid physics

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experiments there's a laboratory

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field of view which is a few it fluid

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science laboratory and in there we

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core then the mantle and allows you to

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do experiments in a simulated

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internal workings of planet Earth from a

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geologic standpoint we've got a number

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lot of our experiments on station

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directed towards understanding how to

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keep humans healthy and safe and snakes

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long enough to go beyond low-earth orbit

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a semi non-invasive way how our bodies

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subjects on a lot of that science a big

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contribution towards that or we call the

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human research facility racks and we've

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experiments that we do actually a number

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of them use a specific piece of

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equipment in there an ultrasonic an

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ultrasound equipment basically and it's

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ultrasound technicians and we're

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essentially doing studies albeit under

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the guidance of some very smart

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intelligent folks on the ground to

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understand how the heart muscle changes

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to be for the environment it's in so

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vascular system and so with the

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ultrasound we can study the heart muscle

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vessels how those will change and adapt

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orbit and it helps scientists better

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understand again how to mitigate some of

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the detrimental issues that you'd have

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body mass measurement a piece of

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same rack and it's kind of a unique

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mass in a weightless environment so we

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course retain the mass and there's two

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light or something is the the higher the

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understand how how much force how much

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impressive and let's see there's a

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hazardous and two to do to basically

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all the way around to it but Robonaut

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demonstration piece of hardware and it's

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a humanoid dexterous robot that allows

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degrees of freedom so it's got a hand

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ventilation ducts and another hand

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nerve ometer and it's isolated from the

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structure of space station so as you

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vibration of the impacts of your feet

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home a captain Burbank really again on

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to give us the tour give us a give us an

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opportunity to understand kind of what

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what we did earlier today the getting to

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distance you've covered over the short

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of an amazing thing to think about as

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well Rick have you aboard today and and

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it's real hard to tell you in such a

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short period of time just what a

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spectacular place this is but you

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certainly got a sense forward in the

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mock-ups and a little bit that I was

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able to show you today hopefully you

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showed you you know told you a little

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bit more of the story but

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but it's a it's a phenomenal place and

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and it is hard for me to believe right

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now that they're just a very few weeks

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left before before i'll return the best

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part of course is to get to see family

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and friends again that's one thing you

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don't do nearly enough of during the

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training leading up to this and

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certainly you feel very remote sometimes

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from family while you're up here but but

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there'll be a lot of time to catch you

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up very shortly for me but there's

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always gonna be a part of me that's

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going to very much miss this mrs.

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environment miss working with these

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wonderful teams on the ground this in

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the science that we do up here but we'll

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be handing the baton off to some

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incredibly capable people down the road

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to is filled all the best to you it was

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great having you on board and hopefully