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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground your weekly

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look at what's happening onboard the iss

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i'm nicole cloutier lamasters

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three members of the iss crew are

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preparing for the end of their mission

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rick mastracchio koichi wakata and

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mikhail teren return to earth tuesday

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they've been preparing this week by

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performing decent drills and checkouts

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of their soyuz spacecraft and entry

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suits you can watch the landing this

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tuesday night live on nasa tv or

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streaming on the internet meanwhile on

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the ground the next crew is preparing

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for their launch to space astronaut reed

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wiseman maxim sarayev and alexander

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gerst have been busy with final mission

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preparations and this week completed

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their final qualification exams the

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three launched may 28th to join steve

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swanson alexander scorchod and oleg

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artamaya for their long duration stay

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as part of the crew's science work this

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week they set up a new garden in space

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veggie is a plant growth chamber that

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will be used on station to study the

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growth and development of lettuce

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seedlings in space the hope is veggie

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will be a resource for crew food growth

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and consumption

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the system may also help improve crop

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production on earth and lettuce won't be

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the only thing growing in space nearly

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800 lentil seeds will also be studied

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closely to see how they react to

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simulated gravity in space the seeds

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were flown up as part of the gravi 2

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experiment that rick mastracchio set up

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this week using varied centrifuge speeds

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researchers will assess how well the

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seedlings grow this will not only help

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with developing the lentils as a

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potential food source but also improve

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our knowledge of this important crop on

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earth we love getting your questions and

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comments we also love to see your

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pictures of the iss flying over your

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hometown you can share them using

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spot the station this picture came to us

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from ian smith in connecticut to find

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out how you can spot the station in the

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night sky go to spottastation.nasa.gov

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or try our spot the station app make

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sure to keep sending us your questions