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foreign

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happy New Year and welcome to space to

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ground I'm Chelsea ballarte the

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astronauts in orbit celebrated their

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holiday season with some much deserved

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time off a special holiday meal and

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views of the first sunrise over Earth on

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New Year's Day out the window but like

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many of us here on Earth it was back to

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work this week aboard the International

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Space Station the focus was science so

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we know that space food isn't the most

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fresh and we also know that pre-packaged

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food has a tendency to lose vitamins and

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nutrients over time one experiment

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called bionutrients 2 aims to keep the

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astronauts healthy on long duration

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missions where fresh food is even harder

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to get this is an experiment NASA

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astronauts are working on all this week

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with the goal of producing nutrients

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using a process similar to fermenting

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food to run this experiment they're

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using three things yogurt kefir and a

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yeast-based beverage and no it's not

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beer in addition to getting their

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nutrients through packaged food

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astronauts sometimes get to play farmer

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and grow nutrient rich to eat

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dwarf tomatoes are growing aboard the

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International Space Station's veggie

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vegetable production system they're

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being grown under two different light

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sources to study the difference in Fruit

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yield nutritional composition and

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microbial levels of course astronauts

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get to eat their crops when their

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experiment is done and they'll be asked

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to rate their flavor texture and

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juiciness however Harvest time is not

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here yet and the astronauts will spend

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this week checking on the plants and

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watering if necessary

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speaking of crops how does microgravity

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affect the germination of carrot seeds

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quinoa or basil

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the researchers hoping to learn more are

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actually students and they don't all

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revolve around food either there are 26

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experiments in all and the students are

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as young as fifth graders all the way up

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through the college level

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Japanese

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astronaut koichiwakata will work on

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those for the students this week this

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research is made possible by the cargo

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spacecraft that deliver them to the

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space station so the humans in orbit can

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begin working on them sometimes these

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space Traders can even deliver some

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science experiments back to their

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researchers on Earth for further

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evaluation early next week spacex's 26

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cargo resupply Mission will depart the

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space station bringing home its onboard

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science two days later that's space to

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ground for this week thanks for watching

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keep up with all of these experiments

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