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houston station on space to ground

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houston we have a beam

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welcome to space to ground i'm dan

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hewitt history was made over the weekend

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with the successful deployment of the

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bigelow expandable activity module

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called beam for short the module is the

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first human rated expandable structure

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to ever be deployed in space

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jeff williams slowly but surely put air

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into the habitat from station over about

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seven hours with help from nasa and

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bigelow aerospace engineers in houston

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with the successful pressurization and

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leak checks well underway williams will

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once again make history when he enters

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beam for the first time on june 6th

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another flock of doves took flight from

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the station this week

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these doves designed built and operated

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by planet labs inc are cubesats taking

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images of the earth from space 16 more

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satellites join the fleet currently

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orbiting the planet revisiting populated

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areas more than any existing satellites

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the images they take are being used for

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everything from monitoring deforestation

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and urbanization to improving natural

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disaster relief and crop yields in

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developing countries

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a special guest got some face time with

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the station crew this week facebook

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founder and ceo mark zuckerberg talked

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with the expedition 47 crew in a live

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event

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what is your your favorite or what do

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you find to be the most interesting uh

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piece of technology involved in getting

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to space and operating the space station

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and and all of what you guys do we had

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the opportunity uh recently to actually

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use virtual reality technology around

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the space station which is quite

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incredible uh you can use view

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procedures for example i have 3d mapping

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of the space station have ground mission

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control being able to point things out

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to you so that really has got a large

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potential for future operations i think

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to watch the full event head over and

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follow the iss facebook page

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this week vinicius tweeted the entire

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iss is the size of a football field but

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what is the size inside well good timing

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on your question as the total area

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inside just changed with our latest

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addition with beam now expanded the

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total pressurized volume inside station

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is 32

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898

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cubic feet to give you an idea that's

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roughly equal in size to the interior

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volume of a boeing 747 one of the

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largest passenger aircraft ever produced

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plenty of room to stretch your legs

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keep sending us your questions using the