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it's part of the mission of the

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international space station to educate

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and one piece of hardware is educating

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not only students but ground teams lori

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meigs is at the payload operation

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integration center at nasa's marshall

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space flight center with more lori

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we're in a little different location

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today we're actually a floor below the

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payload operations integration center

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and lisa smith is the mission operations

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lab training team lead and lisa let's

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set the scene here tell us what we see

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behind us okay this is our laboratory

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training facility it's a mock-up of

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modules just like we have on on space

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station and it's filled with payload

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facility racks and some payload

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equipment and so this is a place where

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we train our ground flight controllers

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and so they make them familiar with the

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different

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facilities and the payloads that go on

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to space station so we can support the

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crew members once they're on board doing

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payload activities we talk a lot about

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experiments but we have to have

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facilities too and really this is timely

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that we're talking about let me read

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this the general laboratory active

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cryogenic iss experiment refrigerator

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that's why we have acronyms glacier it's

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pretty timely because glacier just

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brought back samples on space x5 let's

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let's talk about what glacier is and

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what it does okay

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yes glacier came back on the spacex

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dragon with some samples and so this

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facility is a freezer and the capability

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is from plus four all the way down to

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minus uh 160 cryogenic freezing and so

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just as a point of reference your

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refrigerator is around you know plus two

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and your freezer at home would be minus

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18. and so experimenters use this to

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preserve and to transport

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the samples that they take on orbit so

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that they can bring them back down to

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earth and that

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scientists can process them and so we

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can get the science from what the

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experiments have done on orbit so it's

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very important for us to have this

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facility here and to train our ground

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controllers so that they're familiar

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with the activities and so they can

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support the crew once they're on orbit

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uh running the activities so the glacier

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can also be commanded from the ground

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which is why it's vital correct oh

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absolutely it can the temperature can be

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commanded from the ground so if we have

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different experiments that require

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different different temperature profiles

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that we can command that from the ground

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and the university of alabama in

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birmingham is the

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hardware developer and they did this for

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the cold stowage group at jsc and so in

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collaboration with sharon kapana at jsc

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i was able to bring the facility here on

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loan for six months i actually worked

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for the university of alabama in

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birmingham prior to coming to to nasa

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and so i have a good relationship with

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them and the coast stowage team and so

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it just really aids for us to be able to

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have this facility here and train our

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cadre our flight controllers on the

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different operations and the power and

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data and the connectors so for the young

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engineers and the new to nasa and iss

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it sort of puts a face with a name if

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you will

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you can read about the payload and

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facilities but it's really good to have

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the hardware so that we can go and do

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hands-on training so they get a feel for

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the connectors and opening of the door

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the inside and how you can reconfigure

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it to to meet the needs of the

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scientists throughout the world so

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training ground crews here but it's

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training astronauts in houston right oh

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absolutely okay and there's really

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another cool story about

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pretty much

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most of this lab and and who built it

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tell us about hunch okay hunches high

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schools united uh with nasa to create

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hardware and this was an innovative

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approach that an engineer

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and nasa had and it started in 2003 with

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with three high schools and so we

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partnered you know with the high schools

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to develop the hardware and prototypes

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for us to have for the training it's

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just a cost effective way for nasa uh to

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have the hardware which we might not

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have otherwise and it gives the high

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school students an opportunity they may

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not otherwise have to you know partner

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with nasa and develop hardware you know

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they've a lot of different areas

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that they can

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go into whether it's soft stowage and

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sewing whether it's soldering whether

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it's 3d printing it's just a real good

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way for them to partner and learn the

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engineering and design phases that nasa

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goes through and let's talk about the

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high school that actually built this one

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it was one of the first in the program

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oh right it was in league city texas it

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was clear creek school and they

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partnered with two alabama schools to

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build this it was huntsville

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technology um

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center here and then brewer high school

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and so they partnered and built the

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hardware and delivered it to the to the

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jsc and it was used for crew training to

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start with and now we've uh we're able

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to borrow it for six months so that we

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can train our flight controllers here

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how cool is that for high school

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students to be building this type of

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hardware oh it is it's just a real new

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unique opportunity for them and for us

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too and we provide our requirements to

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the coordinator here and he goes and

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sees throughout

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the southeast the different schools that

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we have we partner with 23 schools in

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the southeast and over 600 students and

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we have an end of the year program and

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they provide their hardware or their

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whatever they're providing to us it may

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be drawings it may be videos and then

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they get to see and tour nasa and talk

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to the engineers here so it's just a

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real cool opportunity well lisa thank

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you so much for this opportunity and i'm

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going to go put my hands in the glacier

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i won't put my lunch there though i

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promise

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and let's take a live look into the

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payload operations integration center

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today busy at work and that will do it

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for us from the payload operations

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integration center at nasa's marshall