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hi welcome to the international space

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station flight control room where we

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have joining us joining us here today uh

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camille elaine who is the assistant

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program scientist for the space station

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and she's going to tell us a little bit

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today about some of the science

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experiments that are specifically aimed

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at getting students involved in science

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and stem activities

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thank you so much for joining us thank

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you for having me

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all right so i think one of the ones

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that we hear a lot about is the sally

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sally ride earth cam and i know that

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that's been

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back in operation lately and maybe you

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have some updated results on that for us

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yes so what's new about sally ride

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earthkam

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since last month when the last mission

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was held is the record number of

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students that we've been able to reach

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with that mission during the summer we

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were able to reach 34 000 students

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562 schools in 34 countries across six

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continents and so those are

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record-breaking numbers for us that's

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very impressive very impressive earth

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cam stands for earth knowledge acquired

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by middle school students and it was an

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educational project developed by dr

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sally ride and her company sally ride

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science really back in expedition 2. so

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it's one of the longest running

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investigations we've had on board the

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space station and it is targeted at

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middle school students and engaging them

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in their studies of science if they're

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doing geography or geology for example

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or math

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they do the trajectories they calculate

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the trajectories of the space station

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so what they do is that they select

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different targets around the earth that

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they are interested in different

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geological features of our earth and

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they send those targets up to the camera

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that's programmed on board the space

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station and then as the space station is

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flying over those targets it takes the

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images and those images are then

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downloaded and the students have access

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to them so they are actually getting the

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real life um features of these different

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sites versus what may be in the textbook

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develop two or three years ago that's

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got to be exciting

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to take a picture from spacex very

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exciting the other aspect of this

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project which is very very interesting

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is the fact that the students who

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actually manage the program they run the

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missions uh undergrad students at the

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university of california san diego they

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are the ones who upload the targets they

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are the ones who download the images and

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put it on the web accessible to all

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students so we are experiment

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exactly and so we feel like we are

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growing the next generation of mission

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operators and flight controllers based

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on this uh the opportunities they have

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to manage this program that's that's

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really amazing i'm sure that's a

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exciting program for the students yes

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and then i know that sometimes they also

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get to actually talk with astronauts via

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ham radio can you tell us a little bit

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about that yes that's called the ham

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radio on iss

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and students it's another global program

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like earthkam students from all over the

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world get access real time to the

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astronauts if the iss is flying directly

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over where their

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school is or where the event is taking

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place called a direct contact they have

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about 10 minutes to talk to the

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astronauts

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period and school is in session there's

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a way to tell a bridge that connection

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through some ground stations that are

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located around

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our earth

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and the students still get to access the

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astronauts and it is an amazing amazing

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inspiring experience because they

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instantly realize that they're talking

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to another human being that is off of

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the earth you know in a real time

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situation so it's a very inspiring very

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engaging activity

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have you gotten to listen in on any of

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those conversations i have actually have

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i've been a part of two one in my birth

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country of trinidad and tobago where

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there was an an auditorium filled with

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400 students from all over the caribbean

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who hadn't ever had never ever dreamt

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about space didn't know anything about

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space and they got to learn about space

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communications how we communicate to the

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iss but also in the anticipation of

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getting to speak to the astronauts you

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can tell you know just the excitement

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and and the engagement and and how it

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really inspired them to go off and do

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their studies in in a more

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effective and and better way you know i

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hope it does um well i guess nasa isn't

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the only one who has um some of the

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educational science experiments european

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space agency also has some that they're

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working specifically with alexander

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gerst this time around that's right

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that's correct the flying classroom is

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what it's called can you tell us about

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that yes it's an educational payload

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demonstration that we do across the

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partnerships and what he's specifically

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focused on is demonstrating fundamental

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physics properties in space and so for

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example he's going to access just

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everyday items that's on board the space

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station for example he's going to

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demonstrate the movement of a gyroscope

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using two cds and a rod that will

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connect them and looking at the

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stability of the gyroscope's angular

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relative to the trajectory of the iss as

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as it orbits the earth another one he's

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going to look at is how pure water forms

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in space versus how it would form on

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earth and the principle states that

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forming decays at a much slower rate in

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space than it is on earth so by him um

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mixing air and water together in a

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syringe shaking it vigorously and

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forming those

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forms he would look over time at how it

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decays and compares it to what's

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happening on earth so it's an

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observation that that the students are

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how different principles are

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demonstrated on in in microgravity

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environment those are probably pretty

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difficult um things to explain here on

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the ground so that's a big help for

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teachers exactly exactly um and so the

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the video is just provided to teachers

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or yes it's available to teachers on the

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website in this particular case it's an

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demonstration so it will be available on

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their website nasa does

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our astronauts do epo demos that are

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available on on the nasa website okay

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well i know um the cygnus is getting

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ready to leave now but when it arrived

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it brought with it a few of uh

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educational experiments can you go

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through some of those yes those are

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called the space flight student

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experiment program run by the national

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center for space science education in

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partnership with nanorex

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corporation which is a commercial entity

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and they give students access to sending

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their designed experiments to space so

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one was looking at the crystallization

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and coagulation of proteins and that's

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really important to us because one of

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our very high valued

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biological research that we do on space

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station is the growing of protein

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crystals so thinking that high school

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students could actually design a similar

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experiment looking at how proteins grow

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and we know when proteins grow in space

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they grow at a much bigger size and much

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clearer than they would on earth and

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that gives insight into the structure of

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a protein which is very beneficial to

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designing different drugs and

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therapeutics for diseases and so to have

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high school students being able to

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develop a similar experiment looking at

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how this protein is this particular

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protein is crystallized in space is very

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very interesting if you think about that

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absolutely what's what's the crew's

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involvement in that do they need to work

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with the experiment themselves or is it

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pretty self-contained they are expected

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to activate and deactivate the

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experiment but while the experiment is

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going on they don't have any um access

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okay all right well that's

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easy to get that done with with the

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minimum use of crew time exactly exactly

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um and then i know um also the the

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station program works to connect science

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with students

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on earth can you tell me a little bit

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about some of the ways other ways that

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we do that so you know um brandi the

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space station we did not build the space

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station to do education

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activities and projects but the presence

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of the space station and the presence of

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the crew members on board the space

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an inspiration and a way of engaging

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students in their studies of science

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technology engineering and math and so

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it is a way for us to give access to

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students

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give them access to doing experiments on

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growing the next generation of stem

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workforce not just for the us but for

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for all across the world

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this is um i don't know if you would

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have any examples but i know we have a

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lot of students who have come

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through here as interns and and co-ops

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and things like that do you are you

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seeing any of them come from programs

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that have done anything like that do you

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write that at all i started talking

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about that in the beginning with

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right with the the graduate students at

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ucsd who were trained to be mission

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operators for this particular earth camp

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we have a few who are actually working

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here as flight controllers in mission

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control so that is a concrete example

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already reaping the benefits exactly

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exactly well thanks so much this is

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fascinating i'm sure a lot of people

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will want to get their own students

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involved so you can go to nasa.gov and

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find out more about all of these um

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thanks again this was camille elaine

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joining us at the assistant program