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when the crew not doing these kind of

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operational events they are of course

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focused on all the science taking place

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on board the station and a recent

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investigation could lead to some new

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ways to protect robots in the harsh

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environment of space could also help

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create better prosthetics for humans on

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earth our nasa colleague laurie meg sat

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down with dr lenore rasmussen to talk

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about how synthetic muscle performed on

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the space station

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what we learned is that it can withstand

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much more exposure on space than we

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had initially

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hoped for

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in part because it was up there for over

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a year initially was going to be a

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90-day experiment

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but it came back on spacex 6 with over a

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year

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in space

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and all the samples it was a duplicate

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experiment on earth just like the twin

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study but all the samples are intact

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there's a slight amount of yellowing in

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some of the space samples which can be

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indicative of accelerated aging but as

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far as their material integrity

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what we've explored so far this is

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ongoing and in the chemistry and the

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electoral activity they're working so

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we're actually um very happy with the

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results we have so far what were you

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hoping to find what were we really

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looking for there there were indications

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even before i get and began this

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experiment that these class of materials

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that these are in um

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maybe you know inherently radiation

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resistant and i had already um when i

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was back at princeton had done some

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previous extreme temperature conditions

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on

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the third gen materials anyways

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where we took them literally down to

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between two and four kelvin and they

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took a while to thaw then they worked

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fine so we said well these were also

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radiation resistance i said yeah these

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could be used for space travel you could

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even dehydrate them and then hydrate

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them

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um you know when you get back so we

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would use the material for what in space

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travel you know what they could be used

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for several things they could be used

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for human assist

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on earth and in space a lot of the

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trying to move when you're all suited up

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can be very difficult so that could be

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kind of almost kind of kind of tied in

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as sort of an exoskeleton fashion and

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also offer protection as the at the same

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time these are force attenuating

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my goal is to bridge form and function

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initially how it got me into the space

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was prosthetics to make a life like

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hand if you will that was also

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affordable this also has got we've

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received a lot of attention in the

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robotics community and for a lot of

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a lot of motions that we find very

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intuitively easy is actually somewhat

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difficult for for a standard gripper

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you're turning a knob and stuff and

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whether it's on space where there's a

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lot it's a very challenging environment

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we do want to explore that environment

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and there are a lot of situations where

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you can't put a human

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so we would see then maybe a robot

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coated with this made of this could be a

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glove or an external device coated with

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this where it's kind of assisting with

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the motion and also providing protection

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that's the other thing i'm looking at

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from your background you know you were

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looking at prosthetics and things like

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that

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and then you have the opportunity to

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have a space station experiment

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what's that been like in floor that

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we're using almost like military

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precision but all of humanity is working

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together on this instead of against one

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movement and work and coordination and

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with the international truly