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hi welcome to the international space

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station flight control room um it was a

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really exciting night last night we had

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expedition 38

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ending with the departure of that soyuz

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tma

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10 and uh with the three crew members

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aboard were you able to watch the

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landing yes i had it queued up at home

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okay watching well with the departure of

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expedition 38 crew that kicks off the

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expedition 39 mission and so here with

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me today we have the space station

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program um has a plan for science on

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expedition 39 and so here with me today

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i have yuri ganart ramirez i said that

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correct right good and she is the

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expedition 39 increments lead scientists

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and so she's going to talk to us a

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little about what

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science activities we're going to be

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doing

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okay thank you very much

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essentially we are very excited

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this increment pair

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to start kick off uh continue and

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continue with the research we have

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started um

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one of the focus

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areas for this increment will be a lot

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of the external uh platforms that we

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continue to attach to the international

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space station

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and one of the unique uh vantage points

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for

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viewing is

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uh of course its location

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uh its ability for different platforms

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to access it

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on a much lower cost than than they

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would have to if they had to incur

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launch and and all of those

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pieces separately

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and its ability to both monitor earth

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and continue to collect data

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on earth sciences as well as a window to

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the rest of the universe

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so for that um we have during this

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expedition uh space63 is

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currently planned to launch in a few

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days and it will be delivering two

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additions for instruments to space

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station one of them is the h-dev which

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will allow a high definition view of the

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earth

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main concept is to test

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cosmic

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impact on the cameras and figure out how

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the other external platform that's

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coming up with spacex 3

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is opals

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and this is a pretty

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interesting device which is going to

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continue to advance our understanding on

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communication via laser

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and essentially from jpl there will be

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a b con that will be sent when the space

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station is scheduled to pass over

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and it will lock in with the opel's

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device and the opels device will send a

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video down via laser communication and

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that hopefully will advance our

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understanding and ability to communicate

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a lot more data

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in an essentially a faster time right so

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so we're kind of talking about some of

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the science the activities that um we'll

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be looking at outside the complex but

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real quick let's just back up a little

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bit and explain to me what goes into the

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planning like

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being the increment lead you know you're

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assigned this is your this is going to

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be your mission and what kind of science

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how do you go about you know what are

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the priorities and what things we're

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going to go ahead and begin

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well we start off with the planning of a

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a research complement if you would for

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an increment pair in this case 39 and 40

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will go together and when we

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start that process

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roughly 12 to 18 months in advance

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collecting inputs from the various

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scientists and this is a multilateral

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our usos partners

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involved as well

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and all of that comes together there's a

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special group that puts all that plan

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together and

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looks at all the different um

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resources that you need uh including the

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crouton power

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down mass cold stowage

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et cetera and all the different

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resources that might be needed for a

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particular investigation

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they put all that plan together and as

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they look at all that the priorities are

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always looked at

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from two different perspectives you have

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your long-term range

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goals as well as your short term

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there are depending on the resources

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that each investigation needs you look

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at viability of the samples and whether

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or not you can repeat something if you

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don't accomplish it within a certain

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time period

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and how much of it

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impacts

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loss of science versus

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just a deferral

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of a particular data collection so all

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of these different pieces are put

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and we inherit that after the strategic

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time frame into the tactical time frame

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a year about

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approximately before the increment

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and then we continue

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that process as a science matures and we

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understand the investigations better and

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vehicles move and adjust

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those those investigations with the

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priorities

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we work together

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with the stakeholders and make sure that

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we continue

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to understand all the different pieces

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and then right now we are starting now

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real-time process

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and what we continue is a dialogue on a

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weekly basis through the irt which

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essentially convenes multilaterally as

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well as we review every week uh four

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weeks look ahead uh we start looking at

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the science complement and okay and the

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priorities adjustments okay as necessary

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okay a lot of planning goes into this so

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um also so we talked some about the

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research that's going on outside the

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complex but the crew members themselves

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are actually research subjects can you

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tell me some of what human research

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projects that are

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studies that we're doing right now for

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expedition 39 and 40.

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certainly we have a continuation of a

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lot of our human research subjects that

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we continue uh certainly

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additional collections on ocular health

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what the visual impairment

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so we will continue definitely with

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continuation of other investigations uh

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for example microbiome which

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the best way i can think of describing

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it is you look at the human body as its

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own little micro cosmos if you would

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and all of the different organisms that

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live in the human body have to be

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living in harmony for your immune system

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to work correctly and in balance so you

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don't get sick

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exactly exactly and in microgravity it's

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interactions with that microbiome which

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is a human being so that's a lot of

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exciting research in that regard

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we also have a new investigation during

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our increment and this is a jaxa feature

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investigation that

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if we can devise a good counter measure

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for muscle

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atrophy as as you know with zero g

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suffer from that that problem and

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they are looking at a new way to

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exercise using an electrical stimulus to

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the muscles

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which would be instead of having the

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bulky exercise devices that we have

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could possibly augment that and even

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become a possible substitute for longer

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missions where you have a much smaller

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set where you

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adjust your electrical devices to the

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exercises that you will perform in this

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case we're going to do curls okay to

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assess how

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how good that is and how positive an

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impact it has on the muscle development

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well that's a new exciting human

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research well thank you so much that's a

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great overview again that's a lot of the

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science that's we have continued science

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we have some new stuff that's happening

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and uh

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congratulations and best of luck to you