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good morning you're looking at the scene

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in the international space station

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flight control room at nasa's johnson

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this is where there is always a team of

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specialists on duty to monitor the

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station systems and where they work with

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the crew members through all of their

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tasks on the daily agenda

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expedition 63 commander chris cassidy

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and flight engineers anatoly ivanishin

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and yvonne wagner are looking forward to

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spending their upcoming weekend off duty

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after having finished up a full week

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full of science support and station

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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground i'm leah

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cheshire this week chris cassidy

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continued research into how the body

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repairs dna damage in space

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due to increased exposure to radiation

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in space dna damage can have long-term

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effects on astronaut health the genes in

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space 6 experiment evaluates the entire

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dna repair process by inducing dna

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damages and assessing mutation and

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repair on tuesday cassidy set up the

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biomolecule sequencer a device that can

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sequence dna in space with a new flow

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cell where the samples are added

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understanding how dna damage and repairs

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occur in microgravity can contribute to

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procedures to protect astronauts not

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only on the space station but also on

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future missions to the moon or mars

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in the japanese aerospace exploration

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agency's kibo module chris cassidy

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worked on hardware that gives us a much

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closer look at things we can't see with

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cassidy performed lens collection for

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the confocal space microscopy setup and

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closeout removing the lenses from the

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aquatic habitat in kibo and reinstalling

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japanese experiment module helping

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maintain the microscope itself

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as it is confocal this special

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microscope blocks out out-of-focus light

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providing a greater resolution on the

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the confocal microscope allows data to

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as we look forward to the weekend on

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earth it seems like a good chance to

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answer natalie's question about what

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like most full-time employees on earth

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off too and enjoy talking with friends

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and family taking photos out of the

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window reading watching movies and more

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however there are a couple of tasks

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still on their schedules astronauts are

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still required to work out for about two

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hours each day and they also take some

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keep sending in your questions using the

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chris cassidy is a u.s navy captain with

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a bachelor's degree in math from the

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naval academy and a masters in ocean

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engineering from mit he also served 11

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years as a navy seal with four overseas

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deployments before becoming a nasa

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astronaut but you never really know

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someone do you until you know things

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like their favorite musical instrument

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and what they hope to be remembered for

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cassidy shed some light on these things

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and more as the clock counted down to

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what is your favorite season fall what's

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morning or night person morning one

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thing you're afraid of screwing up on a

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refrigerator at all times pesto what's

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your favorite book the count of monte

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cristo favorite movie saving private

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ryan favorite dance move sprinkler

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what's your favorite color navy blue

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training the next item on your space

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one of the commercial crews onboard the

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space station advice that you would give

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to younger you communicate more often

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unsolicited unselfish acts what would

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having the greatest nba three-point

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working laboratory in space and solar

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energy is a key element in keeping it

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astronauts rely on this renewable energy

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source to power the machines they need

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ones they need for their survival

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in this demonstration video astronaut

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ricky arnold explains the process of

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generating power from the station's

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solar arrays to produce the electricity

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for astronauts as they orbit 250 miles

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astronaut ricky arnold and i'm currently

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on iss where you can see centrifuges

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experiment racks where you can see

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electrical power in fact we have so much

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equipment for science and life support

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that our electrical system has about 8

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from here in the cupola and through

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other windows you can easily see the

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solar cells which are purified chunks of

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the element silicon together the solar

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rays contain a total of 262 400 solar

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cells and cover an area of about 27 000

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square feet more than half the area of a

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solar arrays produce about 60 percent

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more power than we actually need during

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that extra power goes directly to

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charging our lithium-ion batteries

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those batteries are essential because

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they provide the power we need during

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the 16 night times we have per day here

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the energy our solar arrays can produce

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maximize the power we generate by

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rotating the arrays in two axes one like

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system uses direct current to provide

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many nasa astronauts who have been to

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space for an extended period of time

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such as ricky arnold has returned to

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planet they left behind it's also been

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mcarthur who has made both kinds of

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trips he tells us he has definitely

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experienced a shift in his world view

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when you first get to get to get to

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orbit of course main engine cuts off and

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everyone i think everyone takes whatever

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you're trying to identify geographical

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massive thunderstorm you know a super

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cumulonimbus cloud coming up and it

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tangible nature of what what you're

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seeing that really does take your breath

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i worried my family when i was sending

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them notes because i started talking

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about the black velvet of deep space you

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there's a certain serenity

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and or or i can never fly again but

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i now i own this experience it is it is

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can you imagine what it must be like for

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scientists who spend years of their

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experiment to finally watch it blast off

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well in this episode of the new series

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nasa explorers you can watch a pair of

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researchers go through their first

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experience of launching all their hard

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helping researchers and i gotta say it's

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make everything work for the researchers

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so that they get good data

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simplest payloads

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on the space station but it's worth it

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it's worth all the work i think some of

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the biggest discoveries we have

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we've made and are going to find her up

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on the space station it's incredibly

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well we've been really nervous all the

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way up until right this moment nervous

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our our dreams aren't actually going to

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um you know larger countdown is

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rockets all fueled up and everything

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it's it's getting really exciting the

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last you know 15 minute window before it

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you know thanks to cases for funding

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this thanks to nanoracks for helping us

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coordinate and making the hardware and

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coordinating all the data collection too

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thank you for the astronauts who are

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going to be working on this project on

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a lot of a lot of people worked on this

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it's not just the two of us it's it's

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as falcon 9 and cargo dragon take flight

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bound for the international space

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station with fresh supplies and research

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helping to maintain our human presence

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in space as the station celebrates its

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20th anniversary

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it'd be incredible just to watch it no

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matter what but knowing that

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we have a personal investment in it it

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makes it a it makes a big difference

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yeah so just knowing that

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something that we've been working on is

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on it and and then watching the whole

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like the whole experience makes it just

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different it's

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it

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worthwhile yeah absolutely and watching

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it with your best friend

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yeah and like someone that you've been

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working with

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for such a long time and it's just

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oh it's yeah i think it couldn't get

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better that's what i can say yeah um

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yeah i didn't want to do it with anyone

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else yeah

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that is the exact same sentiment that i

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have too

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so it was really it was really special

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that we could be here yeah and watch it

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together

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[Music]

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our scientist experiment is officially

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on its way to the international space

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station the spacex dragon capsule that

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gives the research its ride to low earth

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orbit now must make the last leg of its

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journey to the hands of the astronauts

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in microgravity

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what's neat for us is we've got cargo

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vehicles coming and going to the iss all

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the time it is really like a busy

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parking lot vehicles come in they stay

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for a few months we do a whole bunch of

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science and then they leave again and

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before you know it the next one's coming

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up

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now what's important to remember is that

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these vehicles cannot dock themselves to

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the space station we have to bring them

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into the space station utilizing

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robotics and what i like to tell people

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is performing robotics going out and

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capturing that vehicle is like a really

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difficult video game

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and so we practice over and over and

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over again using computer simulations on

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how to actually capture that cargo

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vehicle to bring it into station

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once that cargo vehicle docks to station

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we do a series of pressure checks and

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equalize that pressure with the

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international space station and finally

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we get to open the hatch

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very quickly the crew starts to move

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because we've got some experiments that

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are actually kept at certain

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temperatures and we have to transfer

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them quickly out and keep them at the

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same temperature there on board the

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space station

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elaine and paris du's research is one of

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the experiments that requires quick

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unloading

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stored at a constant temperature to

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ensure the hydrogels stay intact it's

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one of the first items that astronauts

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must remove from dragon

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then with the experiment finally aboard

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the space station it's time to conduct

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microgravity this was fantastic for me

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this is what i do this means a lot to me

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as a clinician

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and so it was really neat to be able to

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perform that sort of science on station

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acceleration 1002 is loaded

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we know that scientists play a huge role

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in human space flight missions but there

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are ways students from all over the

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country can get involved too

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nasa relies on them to take part in

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micro g next a challenge that allows

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them to put their engineering skills to

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[Music]

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there is one thing that explorers all

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throughout time have had in common they

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are all at the mercy of weather and

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while things like rain and wind and

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lightning all factor in you can't forget

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about radiation the astronauts and the

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systems on their future space vehicles

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will have to be protected from deep

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space radiation and that's why today's

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scientists are working hard to improve

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our ability to accurately forecast

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dangerous space weather

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[Music]

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presented by science at nasa

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when seafaring nations began to explore

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new regions of the world one of their

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biggest concerns in making the journey

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safely was how to cope with weather

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they could harness the wind for power

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they could rely on the sun and the stars

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for navigation

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they could build sturdy ships

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but if a storm rose suddenly they were

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at nature's mercy

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more than five centuries later our

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nation is once again on the cusp of

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exploring new worlds

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and once again

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one of our concerns about traveling long

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distances is the weather space weather

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while space is a vacuum it's not 100

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percent empty

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particles energy and magnetic fields

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travel through the void

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much of these emanate from the sun's

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corona as part of a constant outward

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flow known as the solar wind which

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stretches well beyond the orbit of

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neptune

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there are also high energy particles or

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cosmic rays in the mix which travel vast

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distances from dying stars or supernovae

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earth's magnetic field and relatively

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thick atmosphere act as a shield against

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the most harmful forms of this radiation

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but in space there is no such deterrent

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if we want to travel through this space

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we need ways to protect our astronauts

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these particles can affect our

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technology tripping onboard electronics

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dr yari colada vega space weather

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scientist at nasa's goddard space flight

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center notes we are working hard to

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forecast when these particles will be at

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their peak such as during solar flares

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or coronal mass ejections

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acute exposure to these solar energetic

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particles is a serious concern for

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astronauts and instruments

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therefore having a better understanding

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of when to expect solar activity is

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important for safely sending our

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astronauts and spacecraft through space

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ironically such space weather activity

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can actually protect against another

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threat to astronauts the sun's activity

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can block dangerous cosmic rays coming

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from other stars which are constantly

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present illustrating the complexity of

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the system nasa tries to understand and

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mitigate for our space travelers

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over time sea captains learned when to

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sell their ships and when to stay in

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harbor based on their accumulated

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knowledge of the weather

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it's more risky to be on the water in

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the caribbean during hurricane season

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and you'd want to consider avoiding the

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northeast coast of america during the

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height of winter

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dr colada vega says it's very similar to

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what we're doing today we're constantly

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developing and testing new models to

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predict space weather and we're

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constantly seeking new data to refine

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those models

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a host of heliophysics missions observe

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space from a variety of vantage points

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not unlike terrestrial weather sensors

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which work in tandem to paint a bigger

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picture of our space environment

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in august 2018 nasa launched the parker

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solar probe to help us better understand

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the sun's activity especially what

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drives the solar wind and how energetic

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particles get accelerated

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this data could be used to improve

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models of space weather forecasting

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ultimately helping us find new and

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better ways to shield our spacecraft and

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protect our astronauts

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whether it was the oceans ancient ships

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travel through or the space we will one

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day travel through we know this

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keeping a watchful eye on the

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environment around us is key to ensuring

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safe passage

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for more information about what matters

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in space

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the future missions just mentioned like

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the ones that will return american

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astronauts to the moon in a few short

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years and then take them out into the

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solar system are part of nasa's artemis

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program

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artemis will bring together the orion

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space vehicle the space launch system

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rocket and the ground systems needed to

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launch them both and as you'll see the

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people building these things are working

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hard to get everything ready to go

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take a look at the progress being made

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at nasa centers and contractor locations

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[Music]

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um

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if you'd like another look at any of the

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stories we featured today head on over

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to youtube and facebook at those

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addresses right there in that blue box

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on your nasa tv screen

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and while you're there feel free to

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check out all the other cool stuff

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available about nasa and america's human

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space flight program

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and if you'd rather take your space

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content to go the place to go is houston

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we have a podcast where we hear

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firsthand from those working in the

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thick of all aspects of space

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exploration

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we post new episodes every friday so

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today gary jordan gets the inside scoop

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on what it takes to keep the johnson

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space center running

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you'll hear from the people in charge of

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center operations and because it's that

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special time of year hurricane response

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go to nasa.gov podcasts for this episode

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all of our previous episodes and the

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full library of nasa podcasts you can

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listen to any of the above on apple

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