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hi welcome to the International Space

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Station flight control room we are here

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where the orbit 2 team now is monitoring

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the systems aboard the International

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Space Station and also the crews

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activities here with me today I have

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terribly Tara thank you for coming Tara

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is the associate program scientist for

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International Space Station and so what

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she's going to do we're going to have

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here today is a just a wrap up of it's

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just we're going to call this science

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friday so we're going to do today is

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have a wrap of the science that has been

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being worked on on orbit all during this

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week and then we have some other little

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things that we want to talk about that

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had gone up on the SpaceX Dragon

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spacecraft that is going to be leaving

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sunday this weekend so welcome to it

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first of all before we get into any of

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all this stuff I just want you to

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explain to me a little about your roles

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and responsibilities here as the program

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scientist for International Space

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Station sure let's see how there are

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many first and foremost I'm involved in

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helping to coordinate the research plans

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that happen on Space Station and look

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across all investigations and then as

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the investigations are happening on

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orbit I help identify impacts to science

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that may be important for pursuing or

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promoting the science that happens on

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station so we help prioritize the

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science make sure it gets implemented we

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meet the needs of the investigators and

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then after the experiments are done our

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team works to get the result and turn

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them into something that's communicable

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to the public so we try to communicate

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the value of what's happening on Space

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Station okay great um okay so we're

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going to we're going to do a little

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recap of some of the science that's been

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taking place and there's a lot of

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science and I think that that's that's

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going on a lot of times we hear a lot

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about you know oh we had to fix this so

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we had to fix that and and while we got

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to understand that this is their home

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that is orbiting so there there is

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maintenance that is required but

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meanwhile it is a laboratory and I don't

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want to forget that and that science is

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taking place every day 24 7 even when

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the crew is sleeping at times depending

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on what the experiment is or this study

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so first before we get into some of

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these experiments or investigations that

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are taking place this week I want to go

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and talk about this education

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publication there's a recent

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location that was done and it really

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kind of goes over some all the history

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of the space station science you want to

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go ahead and tell sure yeah just this

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month our office put out a new

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publication it's called inspiring the

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next generation and it's basically a

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compilation of the results of the

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student participation in space station

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over the last 12 years so just about

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just about every investigation that

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happens on on orbit has some kind of

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educational component whether it's true

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student design and competition where

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it's actual student experiments on orbit

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or it could be just all the way back to

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on-orbit activities that can be pursued

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in the classroom in parallel even even

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crew call bounce to students all of

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these things are rolled into this

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publication and an effort to communicate

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the value of station in a way that

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promotes science technology engineering

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and math so the stem is real critical

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right to to space station value and what

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we found is is going through the

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publication as we were putting it

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together looks like space station has

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reached students across students and

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teachers across 44 different countries

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well in the last 12 years and about 44

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42 million students have been reached

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and on some level involving space

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station activities which is really

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really mind-blowing and nearly 3 million

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teachers as well yeah so it was yeah it

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was pretty eye-opening as we were going

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through and now the publication also

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details how you as students and teachers

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can get on board and participate in

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competitions that are up and coming and

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that are always ongoing so if you feel

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like this is something you want to look

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through which I highly encourage if you

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have ideas if your student in you you

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have some ideas you're not sure where to

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go this publication is really a great

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place for you to start because you can

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see what other students have done and

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some of the results and how you can

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participate and to do that you can we

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have copies that are coming out and

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print this month but but in the meantime

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it's online right now if you go to ww na

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sa govt /i SS science you can find

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there's a for teachers section and a for

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student section and if you click on

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those links there's lots of information

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there and you can find a

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the online version of in terms of PDF

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format for this publication okay thank

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you you should check it out really get a

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good information there um so let's go

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ahead and talk about a couple of the

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experiments that are taking place this

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week and you know they're gonna be

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ongoing but one of the things I know is

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the meter on and this is something that

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morning to deactivate and that's what I

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think a neat we have a little picture

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here yeah of Meteorology is this little

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guy is actually called mock-up and he's

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part of the meter on project which is an

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ISA European Space Agency sponsored

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investigation that'll actually happen

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over a period of two to three years on

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station and the goal of this meter on

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project is to as to check out and and

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just basically characterize and

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understand human robotic interaction

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from when you're on orbit and down to

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earth so it's a unique capability to be

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able to what study did this week with

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which was pretty cool was she actually

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controlled this little creature called

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mock-up from ISS and this mock-up is

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located at a piece of control facility

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and in Germany so she actually commanded

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it from space and it was pretty exciting

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the robot from what I understand is is

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on a in an area that's simulated with

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you know simulated Mars environment so

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what you're doing is simulating

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controlling a robot from far far away in

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space and so I understand that the

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communication hesitation or delay was

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only two to three seconds from when

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robot did perform her command and then

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so really what this is proving out is

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something called the late ah Luren sneck

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working and so a really critical

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component of technology demonstration

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from for use on space station is being

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able to use technology that is going to

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take us beyond low-earth orbit right so

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delay tolerant networking is a series of

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four networks like space station that

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have loss of signal and their d TNS the

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late dollar networks on on earth as well

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what happens is the little packets of

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information gets stored and then can be

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forward once the communication is

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reestablished so this is a way

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for us to test out a very basic human

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robot interaction along with the DTN

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network and think about how we would

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evolve these robotic features out past

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just this little mock-up robot now

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mock-ups the first but in series over

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the next several years isa plans to

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progress and all the way up to the

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exoskeleton type wearable components

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human robotic interaction so basically

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control it that way versus just computer

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and joystick which up on station now

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yeah so so I meteor on is really good

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example technology demonstration it's

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very visible it's really fun to watch

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just more progression as this one loose

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so what she did actually with her

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commanding meter on or the mock-up of on

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the space station was almost a little

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reverse of what we see here because here

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the ground teams will often be operating

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the robotically you know Exxon station

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so that's right of interesting to see

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that great so another one we have here i

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have a list listen iowa i like um just

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because i like fitness and kind of

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things i'm going to talk about vo2 max

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and i understand it's not really that

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fun to do okay pretty strenuous yeah so

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maybe Sonny enjoys it because she loves

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fitting so much but I don't know so talk

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to me a little about vo2 max what

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exactly i mean it's it's your measure

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the measurement of your aerobic capacity

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but tell me why is this important vo2

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max it it's a measurement like you said

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of aerobic capacity so how how well the

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crew members can take up their oxygen as

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they're exercising and it's done on

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earth to and athletes and anyone who's

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interested in and it represents it's a

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reflection of your cardio fitness your

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credit vascular fitness and your

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respiratory fitness and that has huge

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impacts on your physical overall

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capabilities and so in terms of crew

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members the reason why i want to check

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it out is because you know when the crew

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has to potentially maybe emergency

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egress what kind of fitness are they and

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shape are they and can they do it can

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they go on long intense uva's if we

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should go beyond low-earth orbit and

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arrive at a terrestrial location that

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they have to get out and start really

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manually laboring for a while so

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max is that it just it directly measures

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the crew as they're exercising the crew

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breathes into a device and out of advice

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as they're really high-intensity

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exercising they got to go max that's

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what the max stands for so it's pretty

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intense and the device that they're

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breathing in measures the carbon dioxide

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to oxygen ratio that they are taking in

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and producing and then their

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calculations back on how efficient their

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their lungs in their cardiovascular

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system are and with vo2 max this week

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there was the very last session that was

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performed ever so they wrapped up a

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study that I think has been ongoing

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since 2009 and they needed 12 subjects

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to be successful human subjects and

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human subjects is valuable and very

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sought-after commodity on Space Station

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but it's very critical to the human

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research program that we understand

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these things before we go beyond

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low-earth orbit or low Earth orbit so

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it's really cool to get the last subject

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in now they're they're needed 12 and

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they got additional two more for good

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measure as a scientist you want to make

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sure you cover all your bases you have

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as much data as possible so I understand

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though before they do this they actually

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do their vo2 max measure that before

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absolutely then and then on a little bit

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and then return again on post flight

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yeah preflight and a flight and a

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non-return to just measure across how

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much is lost and then how much they

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actually will regain back once they once

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they land as well over time how they

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compare with some of the the Olympics

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and I don't know maybe honey I want to

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find that out hi hi numbers okay so the

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next one this is kind of a fun one to

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and actually we were talking about this

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earlier aki was actually just measuring

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the water volume of this particular

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habitat is called the aquatic habitat

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this is kind of exciting good um it's

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for fish it's been efficient air base

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yeah so talk to me a little about this

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yeah this is the fun this is fun stuff

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right so so the aquatic habitat was

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actually itself the hardware was

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launched this summer on an HTV vehicle

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and in the meantime the crew have been

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working on and off to set up the water

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the test the pH get all the bubbles out

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surprisingly bubbles were a bad thing to

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have in a fluid environment in space set

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up the filtration units and get ready

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for the fish that just arrived on 32's

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and I heard as of this morning the fish

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medaka fish have been inserted into the

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into the aquarium and so the purpose of

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these medaka fish are is to basically

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start an investigation that looks at the

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development of fish over time and

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microgravity the longest time of fish a

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particular fish has lived in

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microgravity has has been about 16 days

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or so on Space Shuttle missions and so

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now we're looking at a breeding tank

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that can hold fish over three different

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generations of reading these fish braid

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pretty quickly I think over two to three

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weeks and so you can start to see

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different generations of development and

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if you and you can also look at the

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motor microscope you can tag them with

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red and green colors that you see on the

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screen that drive certain cells to

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behave in certain way you can see what's

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happening with those certain cells so if

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you tagged bone cells red you can see

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what's happening to the bone the

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skeletal system and these fishes they

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evolved in a microgravity environment

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crew on orbit the longer they stay they

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face muscle and bone loss because of

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this use they're not using it as often

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as they are on earth and so we want to

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understand some of the issues associated

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with that the processes that control

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that and one way you can do it is

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through these fish especially as you

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look at their development over time so

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the first study will look at the bone

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development and and sub sub in a subset

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so follow on studies okay I'd sacks

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myself in a corner without follow-on

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studies will look at other parts other

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different physiological processes of the

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fish and really cool it would be to see

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just how they develop and what they end

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up acting like and looking like after

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generations in space yeah so it's

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exciting though and me and you mentioned

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32s so that just arrived so you're

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talking about the Soyuz with Kevin Ford

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yeah and his and his two cosmonaut

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crewmates as well so yeah and they just

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arrived this week to fish are now on

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station and we call most of them are

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inside the aquarium hey ho very cool

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okay so um last but not least we have

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one other one and Sonny was also working

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a little bit with it I think just

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replacing it on on station this morning

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and this is called a micro 6 yeah

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one thing about micro sixes it actually

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came up and I want to talk about more

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other things this is something that

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they're working on this week but it is

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one that actually arrived at the

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international space station aboard the

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first yes we supply cargo craft at

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commercial resupply cargo craft the

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dragon which is actually set to

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splashdown depart from the station and /

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down on Sunday but so talk to me first I

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want to talk about more science that was

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brought up on Dragon but first talk to

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me a little about micro sick since

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that's something that they have been

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working on during this week as well

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absolutely micro six it's what's called

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a sortie and we haven't had sorties

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since retirement a shuttle so a sortie

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is an investigation that you can you

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launch up on a vehicle activate it

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during the time that the vehicle stocked

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and then return it right away home and

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since we haven't had returned

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capabilities we haven't had a sortie in

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a long time so micro six is one of two

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sorties that are on station right now

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and and it's coming home like you said I

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saw the video of Sonny packing these

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these what's called these gaps these

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circular components inside of a return

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box that's coming home on SpaceX and

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inside of these particular gaps it's

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what the hardware is called is a type of

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yeast called Candida albicans and in

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candida albicans is a normal part of the

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micro flora and fauna flora that are

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located in your gut and they're there

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they're part of who we are but sometimes

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if your balance of these microbes inside

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your get get off these yeast these type

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of yeast can become more active and take

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over and cause issues such as yeast

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infections and thrust in the mouth and

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so these these infections can become an

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issue on earth but you can imagine they

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could also become an issue in space as

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well so we're interested interested in

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them in terms of crew health but what's

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really cool about the microgravity

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environment is that we found with the

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way bacteria behave and other microbes

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that sometimes certain ones become more

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aggressive in space and so they'll up

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regulate their kind of nastiness and so

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so with that we've been able to identify

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types of genes that are involved in

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driving the kind of aggressiveness and

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if you can identify the types of genes

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that are involved in that behavior you

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can potentially get to a cure or vaccine

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or

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regent quicker so that's what's being

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done with the micro six investigation

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the scientists who are sending this one

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up are going to get the samples home and

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they're going to look at things like

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what genes were upregulated in these

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cells as they were incubated on Space

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Station in the microgravity environment

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and then they might think about what

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might cause their activation based on

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these genes that that are that are

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activated what's causing this what about

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the microgravity environment that's

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doing it they're also going to look at

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their their physical structure because

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when sometimes when microbes become

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aggressive part of that is that they

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create biofilms and they start that's a

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good way for them to communicate and

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hang out with each other and become more

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aggressive and then lastly I understand

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that this investigation is also testing

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an antifungal treatment so it'll be

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interesting to see the response in the

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in the cultures to this antifungal

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treatment as they were cultured in

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microgravity so these guys are going to

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come home on SpaceX and and we're

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looking forward to those results they're

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one of many that are going to come home

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about 400 kilograms are coming home on

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SpaceX in support of countless

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investigations my job right now is to

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untangle the countless number of

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investigations that are actually coming

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home they range from cold stowage

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samples which is a new capability for us

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as well we haven't had that since

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shuttles gone away being able to return

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samples that are frozen or cold like the

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blood and the urine the critical human

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samples the critical plant tissue

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samples things that have been up and in

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the freezers and Space Station for a

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while and need to come home before they

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expire so to speak and the cells start

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to break down so the science return on

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these is critical and that's a big

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return capability of SpaceX and we also

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have some ambient samples coming home in

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terms of materials even some some

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ambient samples that don't require that

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our human base that don't require

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freezing as well we also have physical

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sciences capabilities some material

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samples that are being returned and even

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videotapes of the data that was taken

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during investigations on orbit as well

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so it's going to be fully loaded we've

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maximized our capacity for return on

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SpaceX about 200 kilograms went up on

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SpaceX to support about oh anyway we

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have 165 investigations going on right

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now in this six-month period so it

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probably doesn't support every single

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one of them but a good handful

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those are being supported in the up

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massive space X and the return is going

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to be really an exciting deal not just

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this you know the splashdown and being

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able the scene of it all and but knowing

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that the step is home and it's returned

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safely and collecting you know get some

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information out of there that could be

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useful to us not only in space and our

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endeavor there but also here on earth

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because some of these a lot of these

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studies that we're doing you know on the

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station also have application to us here

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on earth so I think it's very very

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important and as we know we also the

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basics dragon is I'm going to be

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splashing down on Sunday it departs from

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the International Space Station Sunday

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morning we all have live coverage for

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you here on nasa television of the route

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there and birth and the release and that

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will start at six a.m. central time

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sunday again watch that and then i will

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give you will provide some video later

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that afternoon of the at the splashdown

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and here are some the time matches of

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everything that's going to be taking

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place again the coverage will begin at

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six a.m. central time here on NASA

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television with a release scheduled for

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eight twenty six a.m. and splashdown

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later at 220 p.m. that afternoon Tara

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thank you so much for coming here and

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giving us this science friday and giving

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us a wrap up again like I said it's I

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think it's a very important element and

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something that you know we too often get

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caught up in in the whole you know we

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got to keep our home claim and clean and

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maintain but there's it is a laboratory

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that's right and death so thank you very

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much and we also have a website you can

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go to at www a govt ass wash station

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slice research and you can find all the

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information you want yep addenda and

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then some yeah thank you again for

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coming out thanksss always so fun to