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i'm here at glenn research center in the

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telescience support center with kevin

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mcpherson he is the manager for the iss

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payloads here at glenn for the space

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station and kevin first of all tell us

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where we are and what happens here in

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the telescience center yeah this is the

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uh

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we call the nasa glenn iss payload

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operations center or the telescience

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support center for short

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what we do here and have done here since

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really the mid 1990s is support

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remote science investigations initially

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on the space shuttle

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when they had dedicated microgravity

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space shuttle missions for two weeks 16

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days at a time

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and then after

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they stopped having those those

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dedicated missions and started

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transitioning into plans for space

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station then we picked up with space

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station operations and starting in 2001

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so we've had

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equipment running here experiments

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running here since

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the arrival of the u.s lab on the space

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station all the way back in april of

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2001. so the glenn payloads that are on

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station they each have little work

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stations here right where are we we're

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in one right now we are in the the the

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flight operations area for the

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combustion integrated rack that's one of

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two facility class racks that the that

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the center has uh has built and flown to

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the space station the other one being

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the fluids integrated rack

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nasa glenn has responsibility

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agency-wide for research in microgravity

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combustion and microgravity fluid

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physics

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and what these racks do is they provide

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a generic capability for conducting

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experiments in combustion or in

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in fluids investigations

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they provide a generic capability and

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then there's specific hardware that goes

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into the racks that helps control uh

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what the specific experiment is uh is

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trying to accomplish other than those

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earth observations those are some of the

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coolest pictures and videos that we get

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from space station the combustion the

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fires the fluids yeah it's it's very

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interesting that they're you know these

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you look on a on a screen and it looks

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like it's a you know the size of a of a

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beach ball some of these uh combustion

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events but what they're actually doing

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is

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millimeter uh size droplets of fuel uh

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and again the generic capability that

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the rack provides provides a way to

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image that with a variety of cameras to

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study different parts of the the flame

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phenomena that the scientists are

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interested in so they

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uh with these these small droplets

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burning them they can they can learn a

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lot about uh how things burn limits of

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of uh combustion things like that

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so how does the telescience part of this

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work okay so the data comes back to

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marshall does it go to several ground

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stations it comes straight here no it's

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a crazy uh complicated process as you

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might expect it goes

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from the space station to the tdrs

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satellite to white sands to johnson to

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marshall

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to here we don't do much direct

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dissemination out of here to to the pis

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other than the processed uh data once it

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gets here that's kind of the end point

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for for our combustion or our fluids

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investigations and that's what we do

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there just another place where we're

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making science happen just another place

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yeah it's it's pretty awesome some of

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the

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accomplish and when you see a good uh

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combustion test point go off that

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they're they're really excited because

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they they you know they think they can

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uh glean some good information out of

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out of that uh out of that test points

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it's it's good for us to get that

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connection to the

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to the science folks

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all right we look forward to a lot more