1 00:00:03,149 --> 00:00:06,049 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I’M KATHRYN CLAYTON. 2 00:00:06,049 --> 00:00:09,360 THIS WEEK THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW PREPARES FOR A BIG DELIVERY. 3 00:00:11,060 --> 00:00:14,060 NASA ASTRONAUTS JESSICA MEIR AND ANDREW MORGAN WORKED 4 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:17,570 TO PREPARE FOR THE SPACEX DRAGON CARGO RESUPPLY LAUNCHING 5 00:00:17,570 --> 00:00:19,960 ON FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6TH. 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,550 THE TEAM SPENT TIME PRACTICING THE ROBOTICS PROCEDURES 7 00:00:22,550 --> 00:00:26,439 NECESSARY TO CAPTURE THE VEHICLE AND DOCK IT TO STATION. 8 00:00:26,439 --> 00:00:28,300 WHEN THE SPACEX VEHICLE ARRIVES, 9 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:30,800 ANDREW MORGAN WILL COMMAND THE CANADARM2 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,390 TO REACH AND GRAPPLE DRAGON, 11 00:00:32,390 --> 00:00:33,710 WHILE JESSICA MEIR MONITORS 12 00:00:33,710 --> 00:00:35,910 THE DRAGON’S APPROACH AND RENDEZVOUS. 13 00:00:35,910 --> 00:00:37,910 THE TEAM ALSO SPENT TIME SPRING CLEANING 14 00:00:37,910 --> 00:00:39,660 AROUND THE STATION TO PREPARE FOR MORE 15 00:00:39,660 --> 00:00:43,050 THAN TWO TONS OF CARGO ARRIVING IN THE DRAGON. 16 00:00:43,050 --> 00:00:45,730 THANKS TO CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH ON THE SPACE STATION, 17 00:00:45,730 --> 00:00:49,780 WE ARE ONE STEP CLOSER TO MANUFACTURING 3D PRINTED HUMAN ORGANS. 18 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:53,610 THIS WEEK THE CREW RAN A TEST PRINT WITHOUT CELLS 19 00:00:53,610 --> 00:00:56,540 ON THE TECHSHOT BIOFABRICATION FACILITY. 20 00:00:56,540 --> 00:00:59,110 THE FACILITY IS A 3D PRINTER THAT COULD PRODUCE 21 00:00:59,110 --> 00:01:00,970 USABLE HUMAN ORGANS. 22 00:01:00,970 --> 00:01:02,640 THESE ORGANS MAY ONE DAY BE USED 23 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,000 TO SAVE LIVES AROUND THE GLOBE. 24 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,860 ONE CHALLENGE WITH 3D PRINTING ORGANS 25 00:01:06,860 --> 00:01:08,760 HAS BEEN THE TINY COMPLEX STRUCTURES 26 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,550 FOUND INSIDE THE ORGANS. 27 00:01:10,550 --> 00:01:12,050 THIS FACILITY TAKES ADVANTAGE 28 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:13,600 OF THE MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT 29 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,190 ON THE SPACE STATION TO MAINTAIN 30 00:01:15,190 --> 00:01:16,470 THE SHAPE OF THE STRUCTURES. 31 00:01:16,470 --> 00:01:18,360 THIS IS A SMALL STEP IN THE 32 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,190 LONG TERM PLAN TO MANUFACTURE 33 00:01:20,190 --> 00:01:23,800 HUMAN ORGANS WITH A 3D PRINTER IN SPACE. 34 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:25,040 MARCH MARKS THE CELEBRATION OF 35 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,170 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, 36 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:27,890 AND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 37 00:01:27,890 --> 00:01:30,220 AND NASA ARE CELEBRATING WOMEN’S CONTRIBUTIONS 38 00:01:30,220 --> 00:01:31,820 TO THE SPACE STATION PROGRAM. 39 00:01:31,820 --> 00:01:35,610 AS OF TODAY, 65 WOMEN HAVE FLOWN IN SPACE. 40 00:01:35,610 --> 00:01:37,920 THIS INCLUDES COSMONAUTS, ASTRONAUTS, 41 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,470 PAYLOAD SPECIALISTS, AND SPACE STATION PARTICIPANTS. 42 00:01:41,470 --> 00:01:44,070 THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE WAS RUSSIAN COSMONAUT 43 00:01:44,070 --> 00:01:47,010 VALENTINA TERESHKOVA IN 1963 44 00:01:47,010 --> 00:01:48,930 AND THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE 45 00:01:48,930 --> 00:01:50,580 WAS SALLY RIDE, WHO FLEW ABOARD 46 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:54,440 THE SPACE SHUTTLE STS-7 IN 1983. 47 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:55,820 NASA ASTRONAUT SUSAN HELMS WAS 48 00:01:55,820 --> 00:01:57,580 THE FIRST FEMALE CREWMEMBER ABOARD 49 00:01:57,580 --> 00:02:00,400 THE ISS IN 2001 AND PEGGY WHITSON 50 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,890 WAS THE FIRST FEMALE ISS COMMANDER IN 2008. 51 00:02:03,890 --> 00:02:06,470 IN 2010, WE HAD 4 WOMEN IN SPACE, 52 00:02:06,470 --> 00:02:08,319 THE MOST AT ONE TIME. 53 00:02:08,319 --> 00:02:09,319 AND JUST THIS YEAR 54 00:02:09,319 --> 00:02:12,230 WE ACCOMPLISHED THE FIRST ALL FEMALE EVA. 55 00:02:12,230 --> 00:02:14,260 THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF WOMEN TO THE SPACE PROGRAM 56 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:15,819 ARE IMMEASURABLE. 57 00:02:15,819 --> 00:02:17,819 MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WOMEN IN SPACE 58 00:02:17,819 --> 00:02:20,840 CAN BE FOUND AT NASA.GOV.