1 00:00:03,110 --> 00:00:05,092 "HOUSTON, STATION ON SPACE TO GROUND." 2 00:00:05,092 --> 00:00:07,689 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I’M ISIDRO REYNA. 3 00:00:07,689 --> 00:00:09,610 THIS WEEK, WE CELEBRATE SCIENCE ABOARD 4 00:00:09,610 --> 00:00:11,980 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 5 00:00:11,980 --> 00:00:13,730 NASA'S STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND 6 00:00:13,730 --> 00:00:16,209 GAS EXPERIMENT III OR SAGE III, 7 00:00:16,209 --> 00:00:17,860 CELEBRATED ITS FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF 8 00:00:17,860 --> 00:00:19,020 ITS FIRST-LIGHT MEASUREMENTS 9 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:21,100 ABOARD THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 10 00:00:21,100 --> 00:00:22,780 THIS EXPERIMENT IS THE MOST RECENT 11 00:00:22,780 --> 00:00:24,410 IN A SERIES OF SAGE INSTRUMENTS 12 00:00:24,410 --> 00:00:26,100 THAT HAVE MEASURED STRATOSPHERIC GASES 13 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:27,801 AND AEROSOLS FROM SPACE. 14 00:00:27,801 --> 00:00:30,570 LAUNCHED TO THE STATION IN FEBRUARY 2017, 15 00:00:30,570 --> 00:00:32,450 SAGE III IS HELPING SCIENTISTS MONITOR 16 00:00:32,450 --> 00:00:33,890 THE RECOVERY OF OZONE, 17 00:00:33,890 --> 00:00:35,340 RESULTING FROM THE REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS 18 00:00:35,340 --> 00:00:37,470 OF OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES. 19 00:00:37,470 --> 00:00:38,970 SAGE III HAS ALSO MEASURED 20 00:00:38,970 --> 00:00:40,201 THE INTRUSION OF AEROSOLS INTO 21 00:00:40,201 --> 00:00:42,140 THE STRATOSPHERE FROM INTENSE WILDFIRES 22 00:00:42,140 --> 00:00:43,720 IN AUSTRALIA AND CALIFORNIA 23 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,490 AND FROM VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS. 24 00:00:45,490 --> 00:00:48,239 THE SAGE FAMILY OF INSTRUMENTS STARTED IN 1979 25 00:00:48,239 --> 00:00:50,329 AND IS ONE OF NASA’S LONGEST-RUNNING 26 00:00:50,329 --> 00:00:51,920 EARTH-OBSERVING PROGRAMS. 27 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,550 DATA FROM SAGE II HELPED CONFIRM 28 00:00:53,550 --> 00:00:55,739 HUMAN-DRIVEN CHANGES TO THE OZONE LAYER, 29 00:00:55,739 --> 00:00:58,970 WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE 1987 MONTREAL PROTOCOL 30 00:00:58,970 --> 00:01:00,480 THAT BANNED SOME OF THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE 31 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,300 INDUSTRIALLY-PRODUCED OZONE-DEPLETING CHEMICALS. 32 00:01:03,787 --> 00:01:05,760 NASA’S SPACEX CREW-1 ASTRONAUTS 33 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,260 ABOARD THE SPACE STATION WILL MARK ANOTHER FIRST 34 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:10,560 FOR COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT ON APRIL 5TH, 35 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,101 WHEN THE FOUR ASTRONAUTS WILL 36 00:01:12,101 --> 00:01:14,780 RELOCATE THE CREW DRAGON SPACECRAFT. 37 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:16,570 NASA ASTRONAUTS MICHAEL HOPKINS, 38 00:01:16,570 --> 00:01:18,450 VICTOR GLOVER, AND SHANNON WALKER, 39 00:01:18,450 --> 00:01:20,840 ALONG WITH JAXA ASTRONAUT SOICHI NOGUCHI, 40 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,630 WILL UNDOCK CREW DRAGON RESILIENCE 41 00:01:22,630 --> 00:01:25,060 FROM THE FORWARD PORT OF THE STATION’S HARMONY MODULE 42 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:27,119 AND DOCK TO THE SPACE-FACING PORT. 43 00:01:27,119 --> 00:01:28,880 THIS WILL BE THE FIRST PORT RELOCATION 44 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,780 OF A CREW DRAGON SPACECRAFT. 45 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:32,450 THE RELOCATION WILL FREE HARMONY’S 46 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:34,960 FORWARD PORT FOR THE DOCKING OF CREW DRAGON ENDEAVOUR, 47 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:36,310 SET TO CARRY FOUR CREW MEMBERS TO 48 00:01:36,310 --> 00:01:39,100 THE STATION ON NASA’S SPACEX CREW-2 MISSION. 49 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:41,840 THE CREW-1 ASTRONAUTS ARE SCHEDULED TO DEPART THE STATION 50 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,979 AND RETURN TO EARTH ON APRIL 28, 51 00:01:43,979 --> 00:01:46,689 LEAVING THE SPACE-FACING PORT OF HARMONY VACANT. 52 00:01:46,689 --> 00:01:48,350 A DRAGON CARGO SPACECRAFT 53 00:01:48,350 --> 00:01:50,130 CARRYING SEVERAL TONS OF SUPPLIES 54 00:01:50,130 --> 00:01:51,880 AND THE FIRST SET OF NEW SOLAR ARRAYS 55 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,560 FOR THE SPACE STATION IS SCHEDULED 56 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:54,610 TO LAUNCH THIS SUMMER, 57 00:01:54,610 --> 00:01:56,770 AND REQUIRES THE SPACE-FACING PORT POSITION 58 00:01:56,770 --> 00:01:59,220 TO ENABLE ROBOTIC EXTRACTION OF THE ARRAYS 59 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:02,020 FROM DRAGON’S TRUNK USING CANADARM2. 60 00:02:02,020 --> 00:02:03,630 LIVE COVERAGE WILL BEGIN AT 6 A.M. 61 00:02:03,630 --> 00:02:05,304 EASTERN ON NASA TELEVISION, 62 00:02:05,304 --> 00:02:07,499 THE NASA APP, AND THE AGENCY’S WEBSITE. 63 00:02:08,327 --> 00:02:10,530 "STATION, THIS IS DR. FRANCIS COLLINS 64 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:12,253 WITH NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 65 00:02:12,253 --> 00:02:13,427 HOW DO YOU HEAR ME?" 66 00:02:13,950 --> 00:02:16,260 DURING A RECENT IN-FLIGHT CONVERSATION, 67 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:19,370 NASA ASTRONAUT AND MICROBIOLOGIST DR. KATE RUBINS 68 00:02:19,370 --> 00:02:20,700 HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH 69 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:22,150 ONE OF HER SCIENCE HEROES, 70 00:02:22,150 --> 00:02:26,160 DR. FRANCIS COLLINS, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 71 00:02:26,545 --> 00:02:28,087 'AND YOU'RE DOING GREAT WORK UP THERE, 72 00:02:28,087 --> 00:02:30,510 AND WE'RE ALL FASCINATED, BY THE WAY, 73 00:02:30,510 --> 00:02:32,870 WHICH SCIENCE IS BEING CONDUCTED RIGHT THERE 74 00:02:32,870 --> 00:02:35,060 ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 75 00:02:35,060 --> 00:02:36,950 AND I HOPE PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING THIS, 76 00:02:36,950 --> 00:02:38,230 DREAMING A LITTLE BIT THEMSELVES, 77 00:02:38,230 --> 00:02:40,760 COULD IMAGINE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 78 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,790 IT'S A PATH FORWARD. 79 00:02:41,790 --> 00:02:44,450 THIS IS THE BEST TIME, TELL ME IF YOU AGREE, 80 00:02:44,450 --> 00:02:47,209 TO BE A SCIENTIST IN THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET, 81 00:02:47,209 --> 00:02:49,370 BECAUSE SO MANY THINGS ARE POSSIBLE." 82 00:02:49,842 --> 00:02:51,980 "NOT ONLY IS IT AN EXCITING GENERAL TIME 83 00:02:51,980 --> 00:02:53,629 IN THE SPACE STATION HISTORY, 84 00:02:53,629 --> 00:02:57,130 I'M HAVING FUN ACTUALLY TODAY RIGHT NOW. 85 00:02:57,130 --> 00:02:59,190 THERE'S JUST, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON UP HERE 86 00:02:59,190 --> 00:03:02,120 AND I REALLY DO THINK THAT SCIENCE HAS AN INCREDIBLE CAREER, 87 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,160 WHERTHER YOU DOING IN SPACE OR ON THE GROUND. 88 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:08,230 IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN THIS, THE PLEASURE AND, 89 00:03:08,230 --> 00:03:10,819 AND THE GRATIFICATION OF BEING A SCIENTIST EVERYDAY 90 00:03:10,819 --> 00:03:14,101 IT'S, IT'S TRULY AMAZING TO GET UP AND DISCOVER NEW THINGS." 91 00:03:14,755 --> 00:03:16,220 THAT’S SPACE TO GROUND FOR THIS WEEK.