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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground i'm isidro

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reyna traffic in space didn't slow down

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this week with one vehicle arriving and

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one getting ready to leave new crew

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members shane kimbrough sergey ryzikov

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and andre borisenko successfully docked

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to the station at the end of last week

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bringing the station population back up

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to six but while kimbron company are

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just beginning their four-month stay

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kate rubins takuya onishi and anatoly

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ivanishin are about to end theirs the

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trio is slated to plummet back to earth

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this weekend for a landing in kazakhstan

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as usual you can watch the entire event

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on nasa tv and nasa.gov

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while temperatures may be dropping here

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in the states the growing season on

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station is year round

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shane kimbrough set up the veggie

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experiment for its next round of

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vegetable growth on the menu once more

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red romaine lettuce the same kind that

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astronauts ate in space for the first

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time last year the crew will tend to the

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plants for about two months with four

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harvests planned veggie is continuing

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its role in demonstrating the ability to

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grow plants in microgravity a technique

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that could provide much needed fresh

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food to crew members on mars spending

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years away from the planet earth

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this week's question comes from astrofox

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who wanted to know if astronauts on

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board the station are able to vote

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why don't we ask one in space right now

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yeah so i will be able to vote there's

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actually some fantastic folks on the

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ground that get me an absentee ballot

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before i i launched and

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it got sent to my my home address and

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the absentee

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ballot address is

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low earth orbit so i think that's uh

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it's pretty amazing

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it's it's very incredible that we're

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able to vote from up here and i think

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it's incredibly important

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for

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us to vote in all of the elections and

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so yes i definitely do plan on voting

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keep sending us your questions using the