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houston station on space to ground

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welcome to space to ground i'm sandra

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jones this week a cargo vehicle splashed

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down off the coast of florida a

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record-breaking space flight continues

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and space veggie investigations are

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underway aboard the international space

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on monday january 24th an unpiloted

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spacex cargo dragon splashed down off

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the coast of panama city florida

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carrying over 3

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900 pounds of science investigations and

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return samples the vehicle undocked from

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the space station on january 23rd after

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launching from the kennedy space center

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in florida last month

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meanwhile on station the crew began the

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veggie ponds validation experiment in

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the veggie facility

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the veggie ponds investigation expands

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on previous validation tests of the new

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veggie hardware which can potentially

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allow crew members to grow a variety of

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new crops from new leafy greens to dwarf

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fruit crops in space

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tests also aim to determine and monitor

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microbiome population changes that are

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present in space grown crops providing

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baseline data for future food production

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efforts

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results from the veggie ponds

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investigation contribute to basic

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research on plant cultivation benefiting

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agriculture and biomass production

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efforts on earth

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nasa astronaut mark vande high continues

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to break records during his

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long-duration space flight

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on saturday january 22nd vanda high

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surpassed former nasa astronaut peggy

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whitson's record of 288 days in space

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the next american on the list is

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christina cook she spent a total of 328

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days in space during her mission from

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2019 to 2020.

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the current american record holder is

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former astronaut scott kelly with 340

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consecutive days in orbit when vanda

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high returns to earth in march he will

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have spent a total of 353 days in space

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which will be the longest single space

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flight by an american the record holder

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for the longest single space flight is

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held by russian cosmonaut valerie

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polyavkov he spent 437 days aboard the

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mir space station from 1994 to 1995.

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that's space to ground for this week

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thanks for watching you can get a daily

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on orbit status report by visiting our

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space station blog at blogs.nasa.gov