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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to the 400th episode of space to

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ground i'm leah cheshire mustachio

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two japanese space flight participants

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arrived at the orbiting laboratory

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earlier this week

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on wednesday december 8th three people

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launched to the international space

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station aboard the soyuz ms-20

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spacecraft

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spaceflight participants usaku mezawa

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and yosoharano were led by commander and

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roscosmos cosmonaut alexander misurkin

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as the spacecraft launched at 2 38 a.m

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eastern time and docked just over six

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hours later the trio joined the seven

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astronauts and cosmonauts living aboard

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the space station for a scheduled 11-day

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mission before returning to earth

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this week nasa announced the 10 newest

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astronaut candidates out of 12 000

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applicants let's give them a big round

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of applause the 2021 nasa astronaut

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candidates were announced on monday

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december 6th over the next two years

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these astronauts will train at nasa's

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johnson space center in disciplines like

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space station systems russian language

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spacewalk training t-38 flying and more

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these candidates may someday travel to

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the space station commercial

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destinations and eventually the moon

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with the artemis program

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a new facility is finding its home

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aboard the orbiting laboratory this week

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on tuesday installation began of the

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flow boiling and condensation experiment

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the goal of this new facility is to

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collect data about two-phase flow and

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heat transfer in microgravity we'll need

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to generate more power during longer

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space missions meaning the heat produced

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needs to be dissipated

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two-phase thermal management systems

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reduce the size and weight of the system

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and make heat removal more efficient

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this experiment is yet another way the

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work being done on the space station

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continues to prepare us for future

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destinations deeper into the solar

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that's all for today on space to ground

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[Music]

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