1 00:00:03,500 --> 00:00:02,389 it is getting easier and easier to get 2 00:00:07,829 --> 00:00:03,510 research to space 3 00:00:12,709 --> 00:00:10,629 for example there's a drug called prolia 4 00:00:15,910 --> 00:00:12,719 that has come to market came to mark in 5 00:00:17,670 --> 00:00:15,920 about 2011 and that drug the mechanism 6 00:00:20,310 --> 00:00:17,680 of function of that drug was tested 7 00:00:22,950 --> 00:00:20,320 during space station assembly well now 8 00:00:25,269 --> 00:00:22,960 if i'm talking to a group of women 9 00:00:27,429 --> 00:00:25,279 about osteoporosis i can talk about how 10 00:00:29,910 --> 00:00:27,439 space flight you know is linked to 11 00:00:31,830 --> 00:00:29,920 osteoporosis and this drug is out there 12 00:00:34,229 --> 00:00:31,840 and there are women who will say hey i'm 13 00:00:35,990 --> 00:00:34,239 taking that medication so it's just much 14 00:00:38,150 --> 00:00:36,000 easier now to relate because we've had 15 00:00:39,750 --> 00:00:38,160 enough time to have those results come 16 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:39,760 out and really start affecting people's 17 00:00:44,310 --> 00:00:41,760 lives everything's different today 18 00:00:46,470 --> 00:00:44,320 because you're really able to use the 19 00:00:48,709 --> 00:00:46,480 space station as a real laboratory now 20 00:00:51,029 --> 00:00:48,719 that we're doing 300 experiments 350 21 00:00:53,590 --> 00:00:51,039 experiments at a time we are looking 22 00:00:56,069 --> 00:00:53,600 three years from now at this huge bowel 23 00:00:57,670 --> 00:00:56,079 wave of research that 24 00:00:59,510 --> 00:00:57,680 results that will be coming out and that 25 00:01:01,430 --> 00:00:59,520 research is really going to be having an 26 00:01:03,430 --> 00:01:01,440 impact in our country one of the things 27 00:01:05,189 --> 00:01:03,440 that's really exciting to me right now 28 00:01:07,270 --> 00:01:05,199 is the number of new researchers that 29 00:01:09,830 --> 00:01:07,280 we're talking to but now with the access 30 00:01:11,590 --> 00:01:09,840 opened up and with the funding sources 31 00:01:13,270 --> 00:01:11,600 opened up so it doesn't just have to be 32 00:01:14,870 --> 00:01:13,280 nasa it can be 33 00:01:16,469 --> 00:01:14,880 the private sector it can be other 34 00:01:18,630 --> 00:01:16,479 government agencies 35 00:01:21,109 --> 00:01:18,640 then the best ideas all have a way to 36 00:01:23,510 --> 00:01:21,119 get to space over 96 nations in the 37 00:01:24,950 --> 00:01:23,520 world have done some aspect of either 38 00:01:26,789 --> 00:01:24,960 education or research on the space 39 00:01:30,230 --> 00:01:26,799 station so far today 40 00:01:33,109 --> 00:01:30,240 and that access is broader and broader 41 00:01:34,710 --> 00:01:33,119 as we have users coming in from 42 00:01:36,950 --> 00:01:34,720 countries all around the world people 43 00:01:39,270 --> 00:01:36,960 trying experiments and of course science 44 00:01:40,870 --> 00:01:39,280 is international so what it means is 45 00:01:42,710 --> 00:01:40,880 through the network of international 46 00:01:44,630 --> 00:01:42,720 scientific collaboration almost any 47 00:01:46,149 --> 00:01:44,640 scientist in the world who can find 48 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:46,159 funding for their research is going to 49 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:48,000 be able to find a way to access the