1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,370 "HOUSTON, STATION ON SPACE TO GROUND." 2 00:00:05,370 --> 00:00:07,549 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I’M ISIDRO REYNA. 3 00:00:07,549 --> 00:00:11,920 THIS WEEK MARKS THE BEGINNING OF EXPEDITION 64. 4 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,070 TWO VETERAN INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS 5 00:00:14,070 --> 00:00:16,440 SWAPPED COMMAND OF THE ORBITING LABORATORY DURING 6 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,590 A TRADITIONAL CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY ON OCTOBER 20th. 7 00:00:19,590 --> 00:00:22,020 THE SIX-MEMBER SPACE STATION CREW GATHERED TOGETHER 8 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:25,160 WHEN EXPEDITION 63 COMMANDER CHRIS CASSIDY OF NASA 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,300 CEREMONIALLY HANDED CONTROL OF THE STATION 10 00:00:27,300 --> 00:00:31,300 TO EXPEDITION 64 COSMONAUT SERGEY RYZHIKOV OF ROSCOSMOS. 11 00:00:32,109 --> 00:00:34,590 "WE HAVE THIS SMALL TRADITION, WHERE THERE'S 12 00:00:34,590 --> 00:00:36,940 A KEY TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 13 00:00:36,940 --> 00:00:39,680 IT'S A TOOL THAT WE USE ON THE RUSSIAN HATCHES 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,580 TO OPEN AND CLOSE THE HATCHES. 15 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:42,680 IT SYMBOLIZES 16 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:45,960 THE CAMARADERIE THAT WE HAVE BETWEEN 17 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,480 ALL OF THE SPACE AGENCIES, AND SERGEY, 18 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:51,200 IT'S WITH GREAT PLEASURE AND HONOR THAT 19 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,190 I PRESENT YOU THIS KEY AND COMMAND 20 00:00:54,190 --> 00:00:55,883 OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION." 21 00:00:55,883 --> 00:00:57,292 "CONGRATULATIONS!" 22 00:00:58,047 --> 00:01:01,560 RYZHIKOV OFFICIALLY BEGAN HIS COMMAND ON OCTOBER 21st, 23 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:03,900 WHEN CASSIDY AND FLIGHT ENGINEERS ANATOLY IVANISHIN 24 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:07,584 AND IVAN VAGNER UNDOCKED FROM THE STATION. 25 00:01:07,584 --> 00:01:09,720 THE CREW UNDOCKED FROM THE POISK MODULE INSIDE 26 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:13,790 THE SOYUZ MS-16 CREW SHIP, RE-ENTERED THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE 27 00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:16,250 JUST OVER THREE HOURS LATER AND PARACHUTED 28 00:01:16,250 --> 00:01:18,020 TO A LANDING IN KAZAKHSTAN, 29 00:01:18,020 --> 00:01:21,197 BRINGING THEIR 196 DAY SPACE MISSION TO AN END. 30 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:24,920 THIS WEEK’S QUESTION COMES FROM RIDGEDALE MIDDLE SCHOOL. 31 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,640 STUDENTS WANT TO KNOW IF ASTRONAUTS EVER EXPERIENCE 32 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,030 A LANGUAGE BARRIER WHILE ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 33 00:01:32,030 --> 00:01:33,720 A TRULY GLOBAL ENDEAVOR, 34 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:35,640 THE UNIQUE MICROGRAVITY LABORATORY HAS 35 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,860 HOSTED 240 PEOPLE FROM 19 COUNTRIES, 36 00:01:38,860 --> 00:01:42,740 ALMOST 3,000 EXPERIMENTS FROM OVER 4,200 RESEARCHERS 37 00:01:42,740 --> 00:01:45,210 IN MORE THAN 100 COUNTRIES, AND A VARIETY 38 00:01:45,210 --> 00:01:47,659 OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT. 39 00:01:47,659 --> 00:01:49,680 DIFFERENCES OF NATIONALITY AND CULTURE, 40 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,850 AS WELL AS BEING ISOLATED FOR MONTHS AT A TIME 41 00:01:51,850 --> 00:01:54,799 ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CAN BE DEMANDING. 42 00:01:54,799 --> 00:01:57,030 BEFORE ASTRONAUTS TRAVEL INTO SPACE, 43 00:01:57,030 --> 00:01:58,670 THEY'RE BRIEFED ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES 44 00:01:58,670 --> 00:02:01,590 THEY MAY ENCOUNTER WITH CREWMEMBERS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. 45 00:02:01,590 --> 00:02:04,920 WHILE ENGLISH IS THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE SPOKEN ABOARD THE STATION, 46 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,668 CREWS MUST ALSO BE PROFICIENT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.