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space the final frontier when Star Trek

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originally aired in 1966 NASA space

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program was still in its infancy but

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Star Trek allowed us to imagine what

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could be if we dare to boldly go where

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no one had gone before for most of us

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the thought of traveling to another

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galaxy probably seems like science

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fiction but the truth is the foundation

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for humankind's journey beyond our solar

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system is being laid right now aboard

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on the original Star Trek TV series

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space station served as deep space

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research laboratories as well as

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rendezvous points where starships could

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dock before exploring the unknown when

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we were envisioning our own space

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station the applications were similar

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the international space station is

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probably the most fantastic vehicle ever

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built

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it's the one-of-a-kind laboratory

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orbiting about 250 miles above the earth

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and we perform experiments on the

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International Space Station we can do

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science we can do experiments we can

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learn how to do things out of this world

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and the result will help benefit the

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people in the ground and all of this

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data curves to further our knowledge of

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the universe but it's not just that we

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are using the space station as a testbed

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for future space exploration it's to

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further our capabilities to travel in

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space and ultimately being able to leave

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it's not only part of our present and

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certainly be part of our future we knew

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if we were gonna continue with this

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mission of exploration we need to learn

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more about the human bodies and how to

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keep humans safe so we have to

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understand what physiological changes

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occur to the human body when we're in

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space the crew of the enterprise

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mastered artificial gravity for the most

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part we however aren't quite there yet

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and that comes with its own set of

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challenges

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when you remove the force of gravity

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from your body you lose things like

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muscle mass bone density your heart

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doesn't have to work as hard overcoming

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these challenges will become even more

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important when humans step foot on Mars

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where the crew will have to be

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self-sufficient but thanks to the

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International Space Station we're able

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to study the effects of weightlessness

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and develop countermeasures in orbit

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close to Earth the International Space

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Station isn't just providing insight

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into how our bodies adapt to spaceflight

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but we also knew we need to learn a lot

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more about living in space and how to be

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self-sufficient to take care of our

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crews as they went on a deep-space

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journey for deep-space missions we still

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have a lot to learn we need to find out

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how to mitigate these limitations that

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we have and that's exactly what we're

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doing in space fashion the ISS is the

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only laboratory available to test life

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support systems crew health systems

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habitat modules and other technologies

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that would help astronauts be safe and

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productive on a deep-space journey

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do you wish the first Apollo mission

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hadn't reached the moon whether we

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hadn't gone on to Mars men to the

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nearest star those are the imaginative

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things that NASA are looking at that's

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every bit as passionately imaginative as

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science fiction I personally think that

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we are at a moment in the history of the

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human race where we are ready to leap

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forward leap out of this planet and I

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think it's in our evolutionary Creed

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that we have a manifest destiny to go

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into space and do to find new worlds to

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live it so every step we take we're just

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getting further and further into space

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and becoming more and more like Star

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Trek and just like Star Trek our journey

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will never happen even though we've been

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sending humans into space for over 50

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years it is still just the beginning

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someday far into the future we'll look

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back and recognize the pivotal role the

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International Space Station played in

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humankind's deep-space exploration

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given enough time and ingenuity who