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all right it's like a bowling ball

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but we're not going bowling actually

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well let's play air hockey right tell us

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about where we're at

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so we've got some air carriages here

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that help us simulate microgravity it's

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about the best we can do here in the lab

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uh and

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before going to the lab in space right

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now on the iss

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and we have these air carriages that

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have their own co2 tanks they create a

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cushion of air at the bottom and like

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you said it's like a reverse air hockey

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table where we have a cushion of air

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that keeps these things floating and

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they move in a near friction free way so

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that things that get set going keep

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going just like in microgravity if you

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set something going it's not going to

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stop until there's a force in the

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opposite direction you know newton's law

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right it keeps going until there's a

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equal and opposite force to keep stop it

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from going i'm not going to lie this has

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got to be one of the coolest places to

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work every little boy's dream right you

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guys come in here and yeah you play but

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it's all in the name of science right i

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mean just look at these toys right yeah

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we have a great time uh working with

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these investigations and uh we program

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them here in the lab we test them out

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make sure they work great and yeah

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wherever we can we do our own research

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our own investigations to look at what

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we can do in space and that's a lot of

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fun and and there have been multiple

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uses of this on the space station right

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it's been there for years oh yeah it's

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been up there for uh six eight years now

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and uh it's one of the most popular uh

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payloads on the space station it's

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educational and you're learning

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autonomously we've got zero robotics

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where even uh middle school students are

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programming these things uh using that

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makes me feel bad

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they have a great time they they learn

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how to program these things they're

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learning how to program for the first

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time and then they get to uh see these

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things operate their code from space in

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real time uh on on live tv so

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they have a good time with that and as

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well as the researchers from all around

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the country looking at different things

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that they could do in microgravity and

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on in space all kinds of unique things

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that they can study and investigate

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using this platform and and this granite

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floor i have to mention

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a little splash of color i like it

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absolutely in fact it was a female

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member of our team that chose that color

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for these uh next generation of co2

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tanks we're sending up to space station

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uh to

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differentiate them from the original

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ones which are actually gray grayish

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boring looking now you'll see you say

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though when they get to orbit you won't

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really see the pink but right you can't

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distract the astronauts too much well

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once screwed into the spheres you're

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you're not going to see the pink but uh

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when they exchange the tanks uh they can

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tell they're very pink and and it also

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helps us from the ground uh i locate

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them on the video uh the the pink tanks

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well i can't wait can we race these

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right now i mean i just can't wait