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the science being done onboard the

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international space station covers a

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wide range of disciplines from some very

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complex laboratory experiments and

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research using the human body is a test

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subject to visual observations of the

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earth and it includes some educational

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outreach efforts

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one of those is called story time from

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space and that is on the agenda for

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flight engineer kimia yui of japan today

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we're going to learn more about it from

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patricia tribe she's one of the

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co-principal investigators who joins us

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from her home in penticton british

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columbia good morning patricia

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good morning thank you for having me the

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the basic operation of this experiment

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what kimia is doing today involves

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astronauts reading books to children can

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you tell me where the idea for this came

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from and what you hope to achieve from

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uh the idea came uh while i was making

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pasta dinner one night

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um actually i had been doing some

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research on education and um

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and literacy and the amount of time that

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teachers were spending in increasing the

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amount of literacy and language arts

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time that they were doing in classroom

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and then i was noticing that some of the

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other data was showing us that almost

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the exact same amount of time that they

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were increasing

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was being decreased in the sciences

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and i thought gee we need we need both

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we need to you know keep up our language

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art skills with all of our students and

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we also need to keep up our science

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skills and learn those science concepts

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and so the idea just came to me you know

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how can we use the amazing exciting fun

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world of space

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to

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combine language arts and

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stem education

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now the crew members on board the

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station they're not just reading any old

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book are they there are some special

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materials

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right we have 12 books five are up there

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right now and those books are written by

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jeffrey bennett and they're

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a series of books about max a dog that

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goes on adventures out into space

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and so i would encourage anybody to to

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grab those

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they are awesome books because they have

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a story but then they also have science

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boxes on the sides of each page that

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goes into the science content within the

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stories in a more in depth and so what

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you're going to see being done today up

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on orbit is the reading of those science

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boxes and a discussion about the science

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concepts so we like to have it have some

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science background and content to it and

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um that's how we're we're looking at the

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books that we're picking

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and and the word

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is getting videotaped on orbit and

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that's how it gets distributed to

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to the children right

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right it's getting videotaped and then

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um we have the other seven books going

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up and those books are going to be read

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and um as a whole story first of all so

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we'll have the whole story

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and read and then we're also sending up

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in march um on spacex 9

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9 science demonstrations that tie

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all the content from the books into

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real science demonstrations that the

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astronauts are also going to be doing in

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videotaping so we'll combine all of that

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content the stories the science boxes

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and the science demonstrations into

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programs and materials for educators and

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science centers and families as well

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and this is not the first time that uh

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an astronaut has read a book for you

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this you've done this for a few years uh

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tell me about the response that you've

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gotten and then how wide this is being

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widely this is being distributed

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well we we pilot tested this um i had

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that idea of you know what we could do

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having stories and science combined

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and um i passed that idea through alvin

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drew and um he was about to fly on

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sts-133 at the time

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and um he was super excited about the

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idea and said you know why aren't we

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doing this this just makes complete

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sense it's one of those things that's so

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simple and so practical we've just

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overlooked doing something like this

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and um and so he pilot tested it on

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sts-133 and nicole stott read a book for

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us and michael barrett did as well

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and so we piloted it but we were using

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the books electronically

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and we found that that didn't have quite

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the same flair as actually holding a

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book you know and turning it around just

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like you're having a story time with

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your child or with your students in

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class

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yes exactly and so and so we adapted it

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and um and then we've been working with

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nasa and cases to get the um the books

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and the science demonstrations up to

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orbit for the last few years

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and in fact a lot of this material is

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available for anybody to see uh online

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now right

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right we are starting to get um we get

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the video of the reading of the book

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back down and then it goes through some

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editing

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once it's edited we are putting that

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rough edit online for anybody to see and

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it's also on youtube and so if they go

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to storytimefromspace.com

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and then there'll be a little header

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that says video library you can see

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there's two and there will be a third

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reading up online very shortly and the

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same thing will happen as we get those

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science box readings back and we get the

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science demonstration videos back they

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will all go on to this website and the

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website address again

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storytimefromspace.com

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very much for uh for letting us know

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about what's going on

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well thank you for having me and i

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appreciate all the support that nasa's

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been giving us patricia tribe is one of

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the co-principal investigators of the

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story time from space experiment it's