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the international space station is the

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most unique laboratory that exists there

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are things that you can learn things

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that you can do in space that you just

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can't do on the earth space station

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really provides an opportunity to

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explore for example say medical

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applications the aging and the

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osteoporosis and muscle wasting

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conditions are greatly accelerated in

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microgravity understanding those

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phenomena allow us to

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look at how we can improve treatment of

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disease here on earth what we have is

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the capability to affect people's

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quality of life it's not just drug

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companies that can benefit from

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experiments or research in space that's

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a host of industries across the board

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but it wasn't always easy to get there

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historically access to space was limited

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to companies and corporations which were

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selected by the government and what we

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lost was the true creativity of so many

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innovative smaller companies that really

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didn't understand how to get to space

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when we were doing the reauthorization

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of nasa

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we wanted to expand the opportunities to

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different areas of experimentation and

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also different entities recognizing the

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untapped potential for commercial access

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to space in 2005 congress declared the

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u.s portion of the international space

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station a national laboratory

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essentially it opened up opportunities

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for research that could be done on the

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space station that would benefit us here

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on earth everyday companies and everyday

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researchers and everyday people can

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think about using the space station

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that's that's a fundamental change it

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was never allowed before today we offer

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opportunities to the researcher that

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never existed before whether it be seed

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funding to help support the actual

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project to access to experts to create

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hardware that rocket ride up the on

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station time with the astronaut as your

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lab technician what we're doing is

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really making it as easy as possible for

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people here on earth to do space-based

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research without becoming space experts

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our part of the mission is to help guide

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these non-traditional innovative users

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from their traditional labs here on the

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ground

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to a very unusual and

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important asset in space the iss

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national lab has space versions of

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hardware that you can often find in

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laboratories here on the ground

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everything from even animal habitats

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plant growth chambers freezers 3d

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printers observation windows incubators

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furnaces to centrifuges microscopes the

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list goes on and on

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so we're working with companies that you

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would never imagine and they would never

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have imagined using the international

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space station and they're seeing great

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results from that the international

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space station offers researchers like me

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an opportunity to find the key variables

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it's helping us to pinpoint

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therapeutic molecules the space station

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really provides us a unique opportunity

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unique environment to do some basic and

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fundamental research that allows us to

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develop products better the iss allows

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us to do a series of experiments in

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weightlessness that will have profound

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impacts for life on earth

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having a u.s national lab in space has

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allowed for the formation of a wide

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range of companies it's creating a new

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economy a sustainable marketplace that

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has services commercial products

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competition