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the payload operations integration

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Center at the Marshall Space Flight

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Center in Huntsville Alabama is the

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heartbeat for Space Station research

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operations and it is where Lori Meggs is

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this morning with a report on the start

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of expedition 40 science well there's

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plenty to keep this control center

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buzzing 24-7 and one of the men

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responsible for making sure that

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everyone is doing his or her job to make

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sure that research is conducted is Mike

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shell night thanks for joining us today

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your payload operations director here

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might tell us about your work and what

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you do good morning Lori the payload

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operations directors are the real time

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operations managers here at Marshall our

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team manages all the US payloads aboard

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the International Space Station this

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includes the u.s. lab ISA and the

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Jackson module including our external

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payloads and our position reports

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directly to the JSC flight director so

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expedition 40 we always say with a new

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crew comes new and exciting research we

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also have some ongoing research so let's

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go ahead and jump in and talk about a

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few things first one is opals yeah opals

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uh this is opals being removed from the

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spacex trunk back in april and this main

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objective is really test laser

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technologies to transmit data to earth

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and the laser data transmission they're

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much faster than our traditional RF

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transmissions they've been checking this

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out for the last six weeks hopefully

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we're going to have a hopefully opals

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will have their successful video data

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transmission here in the next few days

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but they've been doing a lot of great

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work and and we're excited about what

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they're doing a lot of what they're

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doing is handled by some of their young

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engineers at JPL yeah a lot of young

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guys doing that work and they're so

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excited about the work they're doing

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yeah this is HD they was just installed

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recently and it's the high-definition

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earth viewing and it's for high

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definition cameras mounted externally

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they are commercial cameras and one of

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the things is just evaluating these

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commercial cameras for future missions

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these a lot of this hardware was

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designed by some of our high school

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students in the hunch program

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and one of the exciting things is a lot

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of views on ustream oh yeah yeah a lot I

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catch myself looking at next we're doing

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a little gardening in space all right

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absolutely veggies our new greenhouse

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all aboard the ISS it was built to KSC

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we've started a first garden we've got

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some red lettuce growing been going

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about three weeks commander Swanson he's

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kind of become our resident garden we

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call somebody's gotta have a green

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absolutely some of the plants that we're

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growing them just really to validate the

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veggie hardware that's up there and

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we'll be harvesting these next week and

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we'll be freezing them and bring them

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back later in the summer nobody can

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sneak it a bite or anything not yet but

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that's kind of the gold maybe in the

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future we'll see how it goes that'll be

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very interesting another thing that we

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also like to talk about is or what's

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very important not we'd like to talk

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about it but the risk two crew members

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about radiation we need to study this to

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understand it more right tell us about

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this experiment the Radian to is the

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second run of the this experiment is

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kind of a passive experiment but it's

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sponsored by the Canadian Space Agency

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will have eight Neutron bubble detectors

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they have a lot little vials basically

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and they'll be placed in various

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locations around the ISS and it's going

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to help us better understand health

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risks that are astronauts exposed to

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especially a neutron exposure and how

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these work these little bubble detectors

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basically when a neutron strikes the

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tube a tiny bubble is created oh I so

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that's kind of interesting it's kind of

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interesting technology and we're

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planning on deploying these next week

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and they'll be out for seven days

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they'll be located around various

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locations around the space station and

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once that's over with we'll bring those

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back in collect them up and use the

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Russian bubble reader to to evaluate the

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data all right well we really want to

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talk a little bit about ocular health

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which is also important to criminality

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debt today what the crease primarily

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doing is ultrasounds they're doing

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ultrasounds on their eyes and heart

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ocular and cardiac evaluations they're

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doing that all afternoon so that's an

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interesting experiment commander Swanson

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I think it's about his 60th day so he's

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collecting data for 60 day run and of

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course with Reed and gerse that are up

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there this is their first full week in

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expedition 40 so we're collecting some

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baseline data for them so this is data

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we collect over over the entire

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increment and it's just happens to be

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the first time for them let's talk a

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little bit about the training that that

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you guys help with this talking about

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the new crew how much training do they

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get before they go and it continues

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while they're on board right oh

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absolutely absolutely the crews been

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training for about two years so this is

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not something new to them they're

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they're training all the time during

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that two-year period they they probably

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took about 110 courses which is that's a

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lot if you start thinking about it

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that's a lot of class work but it

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doesn't it doesn't stop there you know a

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lot of the experiments they'll do some

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refresher courses or will provide them

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reviews before they actually do some

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more complex experiments and then on

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some of those simpler will come simpler

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experiments they actually do

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computer-based training once they get on

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boards that may be the first time

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they've seen it or just you know they

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may not have studied it a lot before

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then so we do a lot of training on board

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it helps with just the training protocol

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as we go along and they're really

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helping you get the word out to a lot of

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tweets from Reed absolutely r & Reed is

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a tweet maniac so far he's had some

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great tweets we like that you know we've

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had a few tweeters up there I guess over

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the years and and they tend to go by

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astro whatever their name is and his his

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astro read and he's picked up about

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20,000 followers this week and i was

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looking at his feed last night he's got

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some great photos so you know people you