1 00:00:03,110 --> 00:00:05,269 "HOUSTON, STATION ON SPACE TO GROUND." 2 00:00:05,269 --> 00:00:07,580 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I AM GARY JORDAN. 3 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:10,960 MORE CARGO MADE ITS WAY IN THE FAST LANE TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 4 00:00:14,140 --> 00:00:18,000 THE RUSSIAN PROGRESS VEHICLE LAUNCHED FROM THE BAIKONUR COSMODROME ON WEDNESDAY. 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,900 IT ONLY TOOK TWO ORBITS AROUND THE EARTH TO MEET UP WITH THE ORBITING LABORATORY 6 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:25,840 FOR AN AUTOMATED RENDEZVOUS A LITTLE MORE THAN THREE HOURS AFTER LIFTOFF. 7 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,820 ON BOARD, NEARLY 3 TONS OF CARGO INCLUDING FUEL, WATER AND SPARE PARTS. 8 00:00:31,820 --> 00:00:36,070 WITH A SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE AND BERTHING OF THE SPACEX DRAGON LAST WEEKEND, THE CREW WASTED 9 00:00:36,070 --> 00:00:38,640 NO TIME GETTING RIGHT TO SCIENCE ON BOARD. 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:44,740 SPACE STATION RESIDENTS CONFIGURED THE BIOFABRICATION FACILITY FOR A TEST THIS WEEK. 11 00:00:44,740 --> 00:00:49,390 THIS FACILITY WILL TEST TECHNIQUES FOR PRINTING 3D BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES THAT COULD HELP WITH 12 00:00:49,390 --> 00:00:53,160 EVENTUALLY MANUFACTURING USABLE HUMAN ORGANS IN SPACE. 13 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:57,970 SMALL, COMPLEX PARTS OF HUMAN ORGANS, LIKE CAPILLARY STRUCTURES, MAY BE MORE SUCCESSFUL 14 00:00:57,970 --> 00:01:00,660 TO MANUFACTURE IN MICROGRAVITY. 15 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:05,140 EVEN WITH A BUSY WEEK OF CARGO AND SCIENCE, THE STATION CREW TOOK SOME TIME TO SHARE THEIR 16 00:01:05,140 --> 00:01:08,760 PERSPECTIVE FROM 250 MILES ABOVE THE EARTH. 17 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,770 NICK HAGUE AND LUCA PARMITANO SPOKE WITH THE WEATHER CHANNEL THIS WEEK AND SHARED SOME 18 00:01:12,770 --> 00:01:14,420 THOUGHTS FROM THE ORBITING LABORATORY. 19 00:01:14,420 --> 00:01:21,350 "WE ARE INVOLVED IN ALL KINDS OF EVENTS WHERE WE CAN TRY TO HELP WITH OUR POSITIONING IN 20 00:01:21,350 --> 00:01:23,450 OUR QUICK DOWNLOADING OF THE PICTURES. 21 00:01:23,450 --> 00:01:28,840 A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN THERE WAS A TERRIBLE FIRE IN CALIFORNIA, WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE 22 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:35,200 TO DOCUMENT IN REAL TIME WHERE THE FIRE LINE AND WHERE IT WAS MOVING, AND THOSE PICTURES 23 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:39,760 WERE DOWNLOADED AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, SEND TO THE CALIFORNIA FIREFIGHTERS IN ORDER TO 24 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,900 GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO REACT MORE QUICKLY." 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,979 "YOU KNOW, IT'S MY FIRST FLIGHT AND SO LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME 26 00:01:45,979 --> 00:01:49,130 I GOT TO SEE WEATHER AT A GLOBAL SCALE. 27 00:01:49,130 --> 00:01:54,619 PROBABLY THE MOST STRIKING THING THAT HIT ME THE FIRST TIME, WAS WATCHING A THUNDERSTORM 28 00:01:54,619 --> 00:01:59,200 AT NIGHT COMING UP OVER THE WEST COAST OF THE UNITED STATES AND SEEING THE LIGHTING 29 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:04,370 FLASHES JUST BLANKET THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES AS FAR AS YOU COULD SEE, AND IT SEEMS LIKE 30 00:02:04,370 --> 00:02:06,979 THERE WERE ALWAYS GOING OFF SOMEWHERE.