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and this is mission control houston

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welcoming to our program today julie

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robinson the international space station

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program scientist for nasa

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julie hi how are things in denver

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oh it's great here

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it's there's high energy this is the

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first time we've ever had a conference

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that had all the disciplines from

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international space station research and

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technology development all in one place

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and so the breadth of topics has been

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just amazing

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and you have three basic themes for

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international space station research

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that uh that you're working on can you

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tell us a little bit about those

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well in the uh

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in the sessions that were held yesterday

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the introductory sessions for the

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meeting it really emerged from the

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comments from our associate

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administrator bill gerstenmaier all the

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way through the scientists that we are

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seeing results coming from that early

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utilization of the space station that we

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did during assembly and that we're

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starting to see the rate of those

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results going up rapidly now that we've

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shifted to full research

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and from those results we see basic

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discoveries new knowledge that we never

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had before

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we see new earth benefits coming from

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that where that knowledge turns into

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things on earth that save lives and

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improve our economy and then we see the

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benefits for future space flight as we

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prove technologies and add knowledge

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that will help us go beyond earth orbit

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in the future

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well that's really interesting julie and

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and so you've been on a couple of

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different panels there

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uh yesterday we had uh our first plenary

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panel that covered a sampling of the top

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science and technology results over the

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it was great because we had

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scientists in the life sciences talking

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about a possible new cure for duchene's

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muscular dystrophy and development of

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vaccines for salmonella food poisoning

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discussions of new physical science

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better ways to develop fuel tanks and a

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number of different patents for products

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naval research laboratory talked about

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their advances in using hyperspectral

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remote sensing from earth to map the

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then there was even a discussion of new

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discoveries in astronaut health

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in terms of their vision loss due to

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a previously undiscovered effect of

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being in space on the central nervous

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system and on the on the venous pressure

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there was another panel today that

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you're participating in as well

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that's right right now i just stepped

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out of a panel that was focused on

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exploration technologies being developed

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and tested on the international space

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station and it kicked off with uh jill

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mcguire from goddard space flight center

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talking about the robotic refueling

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mission which is really pushing

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our ability to use robots to repair

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spacecraft in orbit and especially the

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spacecraft that had not been designed

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and that was just a really strong

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right uh also uh scientists have been

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talking about uh laser communications

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and pushing that envelope uh using tests

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on the international space station so

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what we're really seeing is advances in

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science happening and then advances in

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all enabled by the the platform that

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serves so many users in low earth orbit

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and uh have you uh had anything that

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surprised you in in the presentations

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yeah it was funny at uh at lunch i was

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polling a number of different people

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yesterday and saying you know what did

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you learn what did you learn and every

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single person had something different uh

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that they had learned about um

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a lot of people were surprised they did

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not know about the the astronaut vision

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loss problem so that was something new

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others were really surprised to they

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knew in our capillary flow

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investigations that that was important

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for fuel tank design but they didn't

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realize all the different earth benefits

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that come from being able to use

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capillary flow as a tool instead of a

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pump to move fluids around in tubes and

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so that was also surprising to a lot of

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alpha magnetic spectrometer at mit also

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presented some preliminary data from

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their first 18 million observations of

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so just a real a real breath and a lot

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of surprises here

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and julie i heard million but i think it

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was billion right you're right it's

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okay i didn't want to undersell that

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that's right

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and so uh there are a lot of forest

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fires going on in colorado um are you

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experiencing any of the effects of those

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well it's definitely you know big story

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here a fire uh close here in colorado

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springs is the um top priority fire

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across the nation because of the number

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of homes that have been destroyed

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the timing that they're when they're

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going over these fires today is a little

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bit off but they are taking a look for

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it um capturing images of the fires and

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that's a valuable service through our

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crew earth observations program we have

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a new network in place as well to help

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images of disasters throughout the world

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when they come in and so we work with

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the us geological survey on the

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international disaster charter so that

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iss can help with that as we add new

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instruments to the space station and

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about all the new earth remote sensing

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instruments that are planned uh each of

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those instruments will also be able to

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participate in that network

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been a lot of discussion about

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opportunities for additional research at

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there have been and one of the

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great things about having all the

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different disciplines here is is

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scientists are talking across

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disciplines and getting new ideas

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the u.s department of agriculture for

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example had representatives here and

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they've been they've been looking at all

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the different things that have been done

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to date and mapping those to usda

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research objectives the usda has a has

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an agreement with nasa to use the space

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station as a laboratory as does the

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national institutes of health and so

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seeing those kind of uses developing

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then on thursday there's a special

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workshop all day special free workshop

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for all potential new users of iss to

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help them understand

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what you need to do to get on board how

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to build the right partnership so that

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you don't have to learn anything

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complicated about the way nasa works you

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can just take an experiment you do in

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is there a specific place that people

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may not relate

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should go to try and and get clued in on

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conference is cases the center for

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advancement of science in space and they

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were selected in august as the manager

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of nasa of iss as a national laboratory

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and so that means that we now have

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really three kinds of users coming to

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there are our international partners who

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who bring experiments to the space

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station there are the nasa funded users

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iss national laboratory users and they

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i saw some great

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new work

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national laboratory yesterday things

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like a new way of

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developing tumor models that you could

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use in space to test things that in in

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terms of studying tumors that you can't

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do here on the ground

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and even new ways of doing observations

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at a very fine resolution that are

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well julie that sounds like a really

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interesting conference and it sounds

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like the start of something that can

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grow uh in the coming years as we have

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thank you so much for joining us from

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denver taking time out from your panel

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uh any last thoughts before we sign off

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i think that the real thing that you see

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here is that that iss is in a new era

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and that era of research and development

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you can feel the energy here you see all

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the new ideas you see all the people who

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have gotten funding for for bright ideas

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and those things getting ready for

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before going into orbit or actually

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starting their operations on the space

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station the other great thing that i see

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as a change here is the level of

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customer service that the iss is able to

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offer to help

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nasa or don't understand space flight

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get their ideas to orbit and so it's

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really a wonderful time in the history

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well and you know in in the past when we

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had shuttle mission research it was a

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kind of a different paradigm it took a

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lot longer to get an experiment on orbit

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you had only had a couple of weeks to do

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your experiment and then it might be

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that's changed now hasn't it

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it really has and that's probably the

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most important feature of the

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international space station is that

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24 7 365 research can go on there and

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when somebody has an experiment and it

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doesn't work the first time we just

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circle around fix it and try again so

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having the crew member there having

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continuous operations and then really

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importantly is because it's always there

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we can take research new research and

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get it up to orbit quickly

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research for example that's using an

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incubator that's flown many times before

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could be implemented and put on the very