1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,000 "HOUSTON, STATION ON SPACE TO GROUND." 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,580 WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND, I’M ISIDRO REYNA. 3 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:12,790 THIS WEEK, NASA’S SPACEX CREW-2 ARRIVED TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION. 4 00:00:12,790 --> 00:00:16,830 THE CREW COMPRISED OF NASA ASTRONAUTS SHANE KIMBROUGH AND MEGAN MCARTHUR, 5 00:00:16,830 --> 00:00:20,829 ALONG WITH JAXA ASTRONAUT AKI HOSHIDE AND ESA ASTRONAUT THOMAS PESQUET, 6 00:00:20,829 --> 00:00:23,900 ARRIVED IN ORBIT TO BEGIN A SIX-MONTH SCIENCE MISSION ON THE SPACE STATION. 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:28,220 THE CREW DRAGON SPACECRAFT, NAMED ENDEAVOUR, DOCKED AUTONOMOUSLY 8 00:00:28,220 --> 00:00:32,329 TO THE FORWARD PORT OF THE STATION’S HARMONY MODULE ON SATURDAY, APRIL 24TH. 9 00:00:32,329 --> 00:00:33,890 SUPPLIES TO SUPPORT HUMAN RESEARCH 10 00:00:33,890 --> 00:00:36,770 AND STEM ACTIVITIES ARRIVED ALONGSIDE THE CREW. 11 00:00:36,770 --> 00:00:38,770 THE ASTRONAUTS WERE MET WITH HUGS AND SMILES 12 00:00:38,770 --> 00:00:41,000 FROM THEIR CREW-1 AND STATION TEAMMATES. 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,730 ON APRIL 27TH, NASA ASTRONAUT SHANNON WALKER 14 00:00:43,730 --> 00:00:46,260 HANDED OVER STATION COMMAND TO AKI HOSHIDE 15 00:00:46,260 --> 00:00:48,900 DURING A TRADITIONAL CHANGE OF COMMAND CEREMONY. 16 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:50,970 HOSHIDE, JAPAN’S SECOND STATION COMMANDER, 17 00:00:50,970 --> 00:00:55,110 WILL NOW LEAD EXPEDITION 65 UNTIL OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. 18 00:00:55,458 --> 00:00:57,158 "AKI, I RELINQUISH COMMAND." 19 00:00:59,895 --> 00:01:01,806 "CONGRATULATIONS." 20 00:01:02,645 --> 00:01:05,556 "AND SHANNON, I ACCEPT THE COMMAND, THANK YOU." 21 00:01:06,525 --> 00:01:08,470 THE FOUR SPACEX CREW-1 ASTRONAUTS 22 00:01:08,470 --> 00:01:11,110 HAVE A NEW SPLASHDOWN DATE AFTER MISSION MANAGERS 23 00:01:11,110 --> 00:01:12,860 WAVED OFF WEDNESDAY’S PLANNED DEPARTURE 24 00:01:12,860 --> 00:01:15,180 DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AT THE LANDING SITE. 25 00:01:15,180 --> 00:01:18,400 CHECK NASA TV FOR THE LATEST ON CONTINUOUS LIVE COVERAGE 26 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,380 OF THE DEPARTURE AND SPLASHDOWN OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA 27 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:23,560 FOR MICHAEL HOPKINS, VICTOR GLOVER, 28 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:25,530 SHANNON WALKER AND SOICHI NOGUCHI, 29 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:28,580 ON BOARD CREW DRAGON RESILIENCE. 30 00:01:28,580 --> 00:01:30,140 THE NEW CREW HAS ALREADY BEGUN WORKING 31 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:33,470 ON NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS ABOARD THE ORBITING LABORATORY, 32 00:01:33,470 --> 00:01:37,920 INCLUDING THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY’S GRIP AND GRASP STUDIES. 33 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,760 THE GRIP EXPERIMENT STUDIES THE LONG-DURATION SPACEFLIGHT EFFECTS 34 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,830 ON THE ABILITIES OF HUMAN SUBJECTS TO REGULATE GRIP FORCE 35 00:01:43,830 --> 00:01:47,020 AND UPPER LIMBS TRAJECTORIES WHEN MANIPULATING OBJECTS DURING 36 00:01:47,020 --> 00:01:48,560 DIFFERENT KIND OF MOVEMENTS: 37 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,920 OSCILLATORY MOVEMENTS, RAPID DISCRETE MOVEMENTS AND TAPPING GESTURES. 38 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:55,200 DATA FROM THIS EXPERIMENT MAY BE USED TO IDENTIFY 39 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,610 POTENTIAL HAZARDS FOR ASTRONAUTS AS THEY MOVE 40 00:01:57,610 --> 00:01:59,630 BETWEEN GRAVITATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. 41 00:01:59,630 --> 00:02:01,119 THESE STUDIES COULD ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO 42 00:02:01,119 --> 00:02:04,220 THE DESIGN AND CONTROL OF INTELLIGENT HAPTIC INTERFACES 43 00:02:04,220 --> 00:02:07,320 TO BE USED IN CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS DEEP SPACE, 44 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,670 PLANETS AND THEIR MOONS, OR ASTEROIDS. 45 00:02:09,670 --> 00:02:12,389 THE REACHING AND GRASPING OR GRASP INVESTIGATION 46 00:02:12,389 --> 00:02:14,810 AIMS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 47 00:02:14,810 --> 00:02:18,790 INTEGRATES INFORMATION FROM DIFFERENT SENSATIONS SUCH AS SIGHT OR HEARING, 48 00:02:18,790 --> 00:02:21,560 ENCODED IN DIFFERENT REFERENCE FRAMES, IN ORDER TO COORDINATE 49 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,510 THE HAND WITH THE VISUAL ENVIRONMENT. MORE SPECIFICALLY, 50 00:02:24,510 --> 00:02:27,739 THE SCIENCE TEAM SEEKS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND IF, AND HOW, 51 00:02:27,739 --> 00:02:31,409 GRAVITY ACTS AS A REFERENCE FRAME FOR THE CONTROL OF REACH-TO-GRASP. 52 00:02:31,409 --> 00:02:33,040 LIVING IN SPACE REQUIRES ADAPTATION 53 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,480 FROM MORE THAN JUST THE ASTRONAUT’S BODY. 54 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:36,969 THE ABSENCE OF A TRADITIONAL UP OR DOWN 55 00:02:36,969 --> 00:02:40,739 REQUIRES THE BRAIN TO ADAPT TO THE MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT OF SPACEFLIGHT. 56 00:02:40,739 --> 00:02:43,019 THIS INVESTIGATION PROVIDES FURTHER INSIGHT INTO HOW 57 00:02:43,019 --> 00:02:45,769 THE BODY ADAPTS TO THE MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT.