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the reason that you would do

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any kind of experiment in space is if

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there's something particular about the

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space

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environment most often that is

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so mostly the iss gives us the ability

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to either do something that we can't do

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in a facility on earth

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or investigate some phenomenon some

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property

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in a way that we can't on earth so for

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example some of the tissue

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architecture these really delicate

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tissues

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as you start to build them up they would

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collapse

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because you have gravity or the cells

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would naturally settle to the bottom of

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the plate

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and so you just can't study the answer

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to the question that you're looking for

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so the space station lets us have that

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ability to either test what the effect

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of gravity

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is or remove that problem entirely from

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yeah the space station's an incredible

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place to conduct research it was sort of

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like

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being in the world's most amazing lab

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when i was up there in 2016. so when

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you're scientists you're used to working

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on one thing

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over and over and maybe really refining

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the details on that

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over the course of a phd thesis or a lab

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project

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on space station you get somebody's

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incredibly refined project

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times 200 different fields so for me it

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was a chance to learn about all these

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different areas of science

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and they each have a team behind them so

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i was usually pretty excited to open the

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container and do whatever experiment

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that day brought i also really got a

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chance to talk to those

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pis the principal investigators and the

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scientific teams

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and understand everything that was going

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on behind their experiments and read

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their papers

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so by the time i got to doing the

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experiment i was

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i was pretty excited to to take it out

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and to see what was going to change in

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microgravity

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yeah science in space it's an amazing

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lab and it's incredibly fun

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i'm kate rubins i'm a scientist and an

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