1 00:00:02,903 --> 00:00:05,116 "HOUSTON, STATION ON SPACE TO GROUND." 2 00:00:05,116 --> 00:00:08,454 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I AM KAYLA LAFRANCE. 3 00:00:08,454 --> 00:00:10,530 THERE WAS A CHANGING OF THE GUARD THIS WEEK 4 00:00:10,530 --> 00:00:11,900 ONBOARD THE SPACE STATION, 5 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:15,234 AS CREWMEMBERS HEAD HOME AND NEW ONE’S ARRIVE. 6 00:00:16,796 --> 00:00:18,390 "TOUCHDOWN. 7 00:00:18,390 --> 00:00:21,110 AFTER 185 DAYS IN SPACE, 8 00:00:21,110 --> 00:00:22,870 KATE RUBINS, SERGEY RYZHIKOV 9 00:00:22,870 --> 00:00:26,138 AND SERGEY KUD-SVERCHKOV ARE BACK ON TERRA FIRMA". 10 00:00:26,676 --> 00:00:29,890 ON APRIL 17th, NASA ASTRONAUT KATE RUBINS 11 00:00:29,890 --> 00:00:34,640 CONCLUDED HER STAY OF 185 DAYS ON THE STATION 12 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,230 WHEN SHE RETURNED TO EARTH 13 00:00:36,230 --> 00:00:39,898 IN A SOYUZ MS-17 SPACECRAFT. 14 00:00:39,898 --> 00:00:41,620 DURING THEIR SIX MONTH STAY, 15 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:43,890 RUBINS SPENT HUNDREDS OF HOURS WORKING 16 00:00:43,890 --> 00:00:45,890 ON NEW SPACE STATION EXPERIMENTS 17 00:00:45,890 --> 00:00:47,770 AND BUILDING ON INVESTIGATIONS 18 00:00:47,770 --> 00:00:50,170 SHE CONDUCTED DURING HER FIRST MISSION, 19 00:00:50,170 --> 00:00:51,377 INCLUDING HEART RESEARCH 20 00:00:51,377 --> 00:00:53,980 AND MULTIPLE MICROBIOLOGY STUDIES. 21 00:00:53,980 --> 00:00:56,970 SHE ALSO ADVANCED HER WORK IN DNA SEQUENCING, 22 00:00:56,970 --> 00:00:59,620 WHICH COULD ALLOW ASTRONAUTS TO DIAGNOSE 23 00:00:59,620 --> 00:01:02,050 AN ILLNESS IN SPACE OR IDENTIFY 24 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:04,395 MICROBES GROWING AT THE SPACE STATION. 25 00:01:05,095 --> 00:01:07,508 THE POPULATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION 26 00:01:07,508 --> 00:01:10,260 WILL GROW TODAY AFTER THE FRIDAY MORNING LAUNCH 27 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:12,850 OF THE SPACEX ENDEAVOUR CREW DRAGON 28 00:01:12,850 --> 00:01:17,280 FROM LAUNCH PAD 39A AT KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. 29 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:19,830 THE CREW-2 ASTRONAUTS, SHANE KIMBROUGH, 30 00:01:19,830 --> 00:01:21,960 MEGAN MCARTHUR, AKI HOSHIDE, 31 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:24,400 AND THOMAS PESQUET WILL DOCK WITH 32 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,730 THE SPACE STATION ON SATURDAY, APRIL 24th, 33 00:01:27,730 --> 00:01:29,600 AND WILL BE WELCOMED ABOARD THE STATION 34 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,670 BY THE EXPEDITION 65 CREW, INCLUDING 35 00:01:32,670 --> 00:01:36,000 THE CREW-1 ASTRONAUTS STILL ONBOARD. 36 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,150 THE MEMBERS OF CREW-2 WILL KEEP BUSY 37 00:01:38,150 --> 00:01:39,549 OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS WITH 38 00:01:39,549 --> 00:01:42,250 A WIDE VERITY OF PLANNED SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS, 39 00:01:42,250 --> 00:01:44,710 A CONSTANT FLOW OF CARGO VEHICLES, 40 00:01:44,710 --> 00:01:46,240 AND A SERIES OF SPACEWALKS 41 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,580 TO INSTALL NEW SOLAR ARRAYS, 42 00:01:48,580 --> 00:01:51,530 INCREASING THE STATION’S TOTAL AVAILABLE POWER. 43 00:01:51,530 --> 00:01:52,841 ALSO RETURNING TO SPACE 44 00:01:52,841 --> 00:01:56,178 IS THE SAME CREW DRAGON CAPSULE, DUBBED ENDEAVOUR, 45 00:01:56,178 --> 00:01:59,850 THAT ASTRONAUTS DOUGLAS HURLEY AND ROBERT BEHNKEN 46 00:01:59,850 --> 00:02:01,285 FLEW TO THE SPACE STATION 47 00:02:01,285 --> 00:02:04,506 FOR THEIR HISTORIC DEMO-2 MISSION LAST YEAR. 48 00:02:05,211 --> 00:02:07,360 THE CREW DRAGON RESILIENCE CAPSULE 49 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:09,369 WILL CARRY CREW-1 CREWMEMBERS 50 00:02:09,369 --> 00:02:12,880 NASA ASTRONAUTS MICHAEL HOPKINS, VICTOR GLOVER, 51 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,650 SHANNON WALKER, AND JAXA ASTRONAUT SOICHI NOGUCHI 52 00:02:16,650 --> 00:02:19,450 ON THE FINAL LEG OF THEIR JOURNEY AS THEY UNDOCK 53 00:02:19,450 --> 00:02:23,200 FROM THE SPACE STATION AND REENTER THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE, 54 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,170 ENDING THEIR 6 MONTH MISSION. 55 00:02:25,170 --> 00:02:28,010 BE SURE TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH NASA TV COVERAGE 56 00:02:28,010 --> 00:02:31,349 ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28TH AS THE CREW-1 TEAM 57 00:02:31,349 --> 00:02:34,500 UNDOCKS FROM THE SPACE STATION EARLY THAT MORNING 58 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:37,746 BEFORE DEORBITING AND LANDING OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA. 59 00:02:38,394 --> 00:02:40,776 AND THAT’S SPACE TO GROUND FOR THIS WEEK.