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just a little over a week ago we kicked

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off expedition 43 and uh

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commander terry verts and his crewmates

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will be staying at the international

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space station until may to finish that

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up and of course they'll be joined soon

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by crew members who will be staying a

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full year scott kelly and mikiel

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kornienko as well as their expedition 43

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crewmate gennady padalka with the crew

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staying a year we have some interesting

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opportunities as far as science goes and

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here to tell us a little bit more about

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that today is the expedition 43 and 44

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lead increment scientist jorge

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stotomayor thanks so much for joining us

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jorge

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thank you brandi is my pleasure uh yes

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yeah we're really excited about this

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mission it's gonna be very interesting

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for sure well is is it very different

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having uh crew members that'll say a

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full year does that does that change

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things for you how do you tell people

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about that

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yes yeah it's gonna be a very uh big

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difference compared to the previous

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increments where we only had the crew

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members for about four to six months in

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this particular case we're going to take

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advantage of having kelly and konyenko

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there for a year so we have a suite of

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experiments new investigations planned

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to address how

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the human body reacts to extended

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periods of microgravity so it's going to

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be very very interesting i think you

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were telling me that you've got more

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than 270 experiments and all that are

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going to be going on during the time

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expedition 43 and 44 so that's a lot to

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to keep up with

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yes we're going to be very busy yeah

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sure i think this is going to be one of

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the busiest uh increments

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that we've had ever

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and we're actually it demonstrates the

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teamwork with all the international

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partners there because we have over two

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like you mentioned over 270 experiments

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including the international partners in

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russia and uh we have to work together

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and try to make everything work and

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that's um you know the experience

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experiments that we see the crew members

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just helping the scientists on the

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ground with as well as the ones that you

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mentioned that look at the effects of

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space flight on the crew members

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themselves right yes correct okay so um

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you know as in addition to um those

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are you gonna be looking at the the

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psychological effects of being away from

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the earth so long

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yes we have uh several experiments that

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look at the habitability uh of the crew

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members uh living in space

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um also how their

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cognition varies with their longer

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exposure in space as well as their

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reaction uh when after

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losing some sleep and being under uh

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difficult stressful situations

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especially for one year period so how do

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you study that it seems like it's a

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little bit it's not easily quantifiable

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i guess that's correct yes it's very

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hard it's very hard and in terms of

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learning how the crew feels

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there's an investigation called journals

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where the crew members will write down

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on a regular basis

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whatever they want to talk about how

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they feel how is their interaction with

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the ground interaction with other crew

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members so the

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researchers on the ground can

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better understand how the crew member is

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feeling there's a

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cognition

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investigation that will also try to

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objectively identify the interactions

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between the on-orbit crew and the ground

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and the frequency and and based on that

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try to assess a psychological and

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physiological state of

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health for the crew member

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um i know the journals experiment that

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one's been going on for a while and

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we've done it with all the crew members

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who've just been there for six months is

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the cognition experiment you mentioned

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that was a russian one have we

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participated in it before no this is the

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first time this is the first time for us

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so that should be uh interesting new

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data for us oh definitely yes especially

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it shows also again the collaboration

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between the uh

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with the united states with nasa and the

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the russian uh space agency are there a

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number of uh experiments that we're

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working on with the russians yes there

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are several uh another uh very

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interesting experiment uh with uh uh is

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called oasis and it studies uh uh

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in microgravity it's gonna be sort of

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like a bubble and and the effects of a

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crystal growth on

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this bubble uh solid state

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uh so it's gonna be a very interesting

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uh experiment as well and we have a

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russian collaboration in a another

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experiment called fluid shifts that also

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fluids in the body move from the lower

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body to the upper body and how that

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affects the uh intracranial pressure and

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that's also coming up uh very soon and

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that would be the first time okay we'll

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hear a lot about that i guess um

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has the the partnership that came apart

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came about as part of the having the

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one-year crew go up together has that

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increased the number of experiments

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yes yes it has yes it's increased we

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have several in the uh human research uh

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area as well as the uh um

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in the combustion uh experiment uh

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com as well

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have some support from the russian crew

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coming up on spacex 6. and that's

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unusual right usually the u.s side of

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the station works on the u.s and the

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international partner projects and then

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the russian side of the station russia

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works on the russian experiments for the

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most part correct yes yes so so this is

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breaking new ground uh and

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but now we continue to increase the

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collaboration with the russian uh

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segment of the russian space agency

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more and more and i guess that's nice

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because you get the extra data and also

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the extra hands to help with the science

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yes definitely and especially with an

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investigation like a rodent research 2

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which is very crude time intense

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that additional uh help yeah crew time

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intensive so yeah it's really good to

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have that help okay does that need more

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help because of just the taking care of

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the the rodents in space or

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it includes uh the taking care of the

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rodents uh as well as uh performing uh

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the investigation and the dissections

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that are going to take place on orbit

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and those are require a lot of crew time

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uh over uh consecutive days

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so so we want to have uh it'll be good

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to have the russian uh crew time helping

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the russian crew members any other

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experiments that you'd want to highlight

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uh there's a really cool experiment uh

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going up actually it's the the second

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part of the robotic refueling mission uh

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that's rrm phase two

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and uh we should be doing that within

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the next couple of weeks and actually

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it attempts to refuel satellites on

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orbit and these are you know more uh

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previous generation kind of satellites

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that they have a limited life so

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hope to extend the life of these

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satellites so that we can continue

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reusing them and save

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companies on the ground having to the

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expand expense of having to launch brand

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new satellites well that sounds like

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something we should definitely watch out

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for you said starting in just a few

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weeks even so yes correct well we'll

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keep an eye out for that and thank you

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so much for coming and talking with us

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we really appreciate it my pleasure

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again this was jorge sotomayor who is

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the lead increment scientist for