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as the crew continues to work on various

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science activities there's a team on the

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ground that helps them they're located

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in huntsville alabama at the payload

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operations integration center at the

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marshall space flight center let's join

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lori meigs there to learn more about one

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of the leaders of this science team lori

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we talk a lot about the research that

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goes on itself but we don't say so much

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about the folks that you see behind me

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they work 24 hours a day seven days a

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week to accomplish those science goals

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and it's very fascinating and very

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interesting and very hard work so we

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want to learn more about it today

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joining me now is stephanie dudley she

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is a payload operations director here at

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marshall and stephanie you were a flight

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control leader and we thought it'd be

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interesting to see what it's like maybe

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to live a day in the life in your shoes

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yes so we work here 24 7 as you said and

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we're responsible for all of nasa's

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science on the international space

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station so the flight control team you

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see here are responsible for actually

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talking to the crew

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sending commands to enable the resources

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that the payloads the experiments need

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getting the data and video to the ground

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making sure the crew can find the tools

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that they need to do the experiments and

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the payload operations director pod is

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the leader of the flight control team

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that you see here and we work very

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closely with the flight director in

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houston

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japanese flight director to do

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nasa science

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it's exciting we know it takes the crew

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special touch but it also takes the work

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of you guys tell us a little bit more

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about the functions in this room and and

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how you help with these experiments

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you've got a lot of a lot of experiments

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going on now it could be a

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record-breaking week i hear actually yes

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we are in the middle of what will be a

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record-breaking week for crew hours uh

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to conduct science so for instance this

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week we have uh bass going on at the

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burning and suppression of solids

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that's a really fun experiment the crew

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actually gets to ignite

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spacecraft materials and then we see how

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does it

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how can we extinguish the flames because

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that's really important in space

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reed really loves this experiment

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and so he one of the things that he

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likes to do is ask us hey i freed up my

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day my afternoon can i do some more bass

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so that's one of the fun problems that

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we have as a pod is getting all the

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resources we need

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to so that

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we can do more science for the the

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scientists and also you know accommodate

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the crew's request to do more

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helps to have a gung-ho crew like that

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it does and everything goes as planned

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scientist sees a result that is

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unexpected and that's a good thing you

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know you don't always get the result

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that you expect um in your laboratory at

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home um so

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it throws a wrench in what you guys do

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well right so it changes the course of

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the future planning that we do

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things just don't go as planned for

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instance we can't find the right tool or

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the mating of a qd

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quick disconnect is difficult so the

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crew has trouble we have to work them

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through that

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so we're we're always managing that

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timeline if the crew runs behind we're

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working with

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the flight directors and our partners to

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figure out

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that's left in the day

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can be for instance move to another day

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so we can get this really important

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thing done right now so that's really

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when you do your best work but you say

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that we talk about planning and planning

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and planning

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tell us today if we were planning for

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the science today when would we be

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planning for that so we actually started

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planning for today a year ago wow so a

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lot of work went in from a year ago to

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actually what we're doing today so we've

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got bass today we have some ultrasounds

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later

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ocular health experiment

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that looks at changing changes in the

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eyes of the astronauts because that's

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really a risk to long duration space

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flight

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we're doing a colloid experiment all

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kinds of stuff that we're doing today we

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started planning a year ago and some

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planning going on right now here at

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marshall right yes actually we have

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over 200 scientists engineers flight

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controllers from around the world here

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in huntsville at marshall space flight

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center this week

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we have a twice yearly

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meeting we all get together and we

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plan for the coming expeditions

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so we're specifically targeting the one

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that starts in september later this year

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but also looking at a year out and and

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how can we um define the collaboration

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now so that the operations go smoother

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when we actually get to the day that we

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execute it so these are folks that will

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have their payloads flying in the fall

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yes all right and you tell them your

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processes too they have to learn all of

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that right

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and we just uh hit a milestone

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5000 days right yeah so that's busy work

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continuous

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human presence on the iss

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on july 12th so that's a that's a big

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deal that's a long time and we've been

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here 24 7 even on christmas

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ever since and still will be stephanie

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thank you for joining us uh stephanie

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actually shared what it's life like

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life is like as a pod on a lavalof blog

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so you can check that out online and