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hello everyone and welcome back to day

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two of our NASA social for the demo2

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capability of human spaceflight to US

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soil with the launch of NASA astronauts

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full day of great shows for you guys

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today I'm Madison Tuttle here with NASA

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communications and with me taking all

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your questions on social media is my

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communications and next up we're gonna

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International Space Station as always if

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you have a question feel free to leave

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as Steph said we have two great guests

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there's a launch down at Kennedy Space

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have a chance to talk to you about some

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the space station and hopefully we'll

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keep you entertained introduce my good

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this time and hoping that we can share

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with you a little bit about what we do

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and why station science is so awesome so

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I'll pass or Rachel just talked a little

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bit about what we do in like why we're

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the demo too much our office we are

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space station because the whole point of

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laboratory and we can conduct really

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storytelling in our backgrounds so my

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folks and make a lot of great

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friendships some of my very best friends

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today are people I met through that so

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the NASA social crowd because I was part

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of that crowd back in the day they were

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called tweet up so we didn't have nasa

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socials we had tweet ups and and i would

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meet people and literally we would share

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a house and these are people i had only

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house to watch a shuttle launch i had

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always loved it followed along with the

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shuttle missions but it was really that

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turn in creating community around social

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media and space enthusiasts that helped

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get me to where I am now and it also

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which she can share on how she got here

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actually got this job I found the job

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through Twitter so I often search like

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hashtags like sicom sicom job and stuff

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to find new jobs and stuff for me and I

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came across a tweet that Rachel it went

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the job opening it's a company to was

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science communication for the space

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station and I was like this is amazing

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it jumped on it and was lucky enough to

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be able to get it so pretty amazing I'd

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without Twitter so that's that's pretty

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well but I similar to Rachel I grew up

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absolutely loving space I grew up in

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Florida so not too far from Kennedy's

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family that worked on the shuttle and on

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the Apollo program so we our family just

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connection to space and really valued

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space which is a cool thing to be able

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high school and drove over there with my

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mom and it was a really cool experience

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NASA when we're watching again from

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American soil it's such a cool book into

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like where I really got into it and felt

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an inspiration to know actually being in

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NASA and be able to help share that

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story so so yeah I excited to help

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connect you guys to that today too I was

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launch the first shuttle launch I saw

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was sts-130 which is the mission that

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installed the cupola the big beautiful

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bay window on the space station and and

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that launch because I was covering it

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countdown clock watching this launch if

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years you're gonna be working at NASA

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embedded in all of the science that's

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have thought you were crazy and so it is

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NASA social crowds because it is sort of

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a complete full circle from from where I

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station and it's just seeing those

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beautiful pictures all day I just

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space fashion you can tell by them

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shirts we're both wearing so so much in

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all kinds of reports that come through

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space station which can be hundreds to

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thousands and week and we're just

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understanding what science the

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astronauts are conducting each day also

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looking at what science is coming up so

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of months and so we look at those we

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understand what science is going to be

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launched we talked to the scientists we

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work with them for televised briefings

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telephone briefings feature stories that

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we write and so that's really what we're

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doing is we are just immersed in the

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science that's happening on the station

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and then figuring out how to best

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nasa.gov sometimes it may be

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collaborating with Instagram to do a

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story on their on their account and it

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just it's just ways to communicate all

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that science and connect with the

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general public so they know what the

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space station is doing for them and why

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you really get to appreciate how much

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the space station is really bringing to

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unit I knew it was up there and I knew

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generally what it was doing but there

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they're doing so many incredible things

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experiments now little bit up there in

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the 20 years that humans have been on

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board this year is actually the 20th

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anniversary of continuous human presence

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on the space station so there has been

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so much that's happened in almost every

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area of science ranging from the Alpha

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Magnetic Spectrometer that looks at dark

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matter to microgravity crystals and

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other protein crystal growth experiments

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that have analyzed crystal growth which

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can help with drug development here on

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her so you know there's you understand

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it at the surface level but then in this

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job it's getting to dive in and really

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see all the experiments that the

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astronauts are working on on a daily

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basis has been really incredible that's

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super interesting I always joke that I

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feel like I'm getting like another

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degree because of all the stuff that

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I've learned over the last five years

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you really start to understand this

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stuff and and it's just it's it's

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fascinating that's probably one of my

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favorite parts of the job is getting to

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learn something new every single thing

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yeah do you have any favorite

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experiments that you've seen happen over

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the years Rachel gosh those are that's a

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good question I know there's been so

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many but I'm trying to think and I've

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done a lot lately of like looking back

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because we're also celebrating this year

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the 20th anniversary of continuous human

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presence aboard the space station so

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we've been looking back a lot about all

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the things that have happened and so

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I've seen like I remember that that was

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really cool that was really fun because

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one of the cool things that we get to do

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when we are on-site at JSC we're all

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working from home now obviously but when

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we're on-site at JSC we actually can

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plug in and watch the live feeds from

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the space station on several different

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camera angles and so something that I

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always would love to do was watching the

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astronauts work on experiments in real

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time and I would just be blown away that

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I could sit at my desk and you know

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here's this space station 250 miles

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above the earth you know flying over

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at 17,500 miles an hour and I'm watching

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an HD feed of someone conducting an

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experiment and so a couple of those that

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I've had fun watching one was when we

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were doing the first sequencing of DNA

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on the space station and that was with

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Kate Rubin's several years ago I want to

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say maybe 2016-2017 and and then

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watching that because that was one of

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the early experiments that I saw happen

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within like a year starting at NASA and

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so now we've had several iterations of

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that experiment where we've gone from

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just yes we can sequence DNA in space to

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yes we can go from swabbing to sampling

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and sequencing or swabbing the sample

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and sequencing ons on Space Station yes

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we can sequence RNA on space station yes

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we can use CRISPR on space station and

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so to be able to watch the progression

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of that that experiment and that series

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of experiments has been really

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fascinating yeah and for me my

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background is actually mechanical

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engineering before I went down with

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storytelling ground so I one of the ones

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that's loved watching recently it's

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Astro B which is this pair of four three

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robots I'm on space station they're

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these cubes that are basically serving

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as like an autonomous assistant to the

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astronauts or they're testing it right

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now it's a technology demonstration and

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then they're also hoping to do some

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experiments on board these and one

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they're adorable and two and it's really

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cool the technology that they're

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actually testing so and that's one again

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that we've been able to watch on the

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live streams which is it's really

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awesome yeah it's really cool just the

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variety and that speaks to the variety

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of what's happening on the space station

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because you have all disciplines of

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science biological physical

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environmental we have incredible

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instruments that are watching our planet

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from the space station and taking all

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kinds of measurements on everything from

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carbon to measuring the canopies of the

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Earth's forests we have astronauts

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taking pictures of the Earth's that are

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beautiful but also can contribute to

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things like Disaster Response and

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understanding changes on our planet from

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from any kind of disasters that happen

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and to technology development and even

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educational activities that we do like

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the ham radio where you know kids can

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get on a ham radio and talk directly to

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the astronauts on the space station and

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so just the breadth of science that

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happens up there is amazing and

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sometimes a little hard to wrap your

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head around it's pretty cool yeah and

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then to bring home that back to why

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we're talking to you guys today demo two

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astronauts launching as part of the

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Commercial Crew program and we're really

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excited because more people on station

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needs more time to do science and

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actually typically the number of people

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on station is the standard crew for the

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u.s. operating segment it's three and by

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increasing up to four it doubles them at

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a time available for science so we're

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super excited seeing what gets to come

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in the next year or two and about how

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many more people up there is gonna need

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us to do all of this life-changing

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science yeah it's pretty phenomenal it's

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pretty incredible yeah and so I think

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we're about at a time so Rachel do you

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want to give any plugs to some places

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that people can check out all this cool

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stuff we've been talking about that

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we're producing yeah absolutely of

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course there is the Twitter account ISS

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underscore research where you can get

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constant doses of space station science

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news we also post through the ISS

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Instagram account which is just at ISS

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the ISS Facebook account which is also

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at ISS and then you'll also see through

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all of the big channels like the NASA

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flagship channel you'll see projects and

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things like that come out from us

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another project that we did recently

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that's really incredible was called the

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NASA explorers series and our season of

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that series was called microgravity and

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in that season we take you behind the

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scenes for a look at what it takes to

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get science planned and launched and

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executed and returned on the space

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station and so we followed a team of

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scientists for two years

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they did this as they prepped their work

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as the astronauts worked on it on Space

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Station and as it splashed back down in

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the ocean from Dragon capsule and got

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back to the scientists for their

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analysis and results and it gives you a

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really cool look at how many people it

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takes at the amount of work that it

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takes and just what happens in the

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lifespan of an experiment and so you can

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check that out on the NASA flagship

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channel there's a microgravity playlist

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there and and then of course on nasa.gov

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you can keep up with all of our feature

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stories and things like that yeah and so

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since we're not there to do Q&A if you

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guys have any questions feel free to

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tweet about the ACT underscore research

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account so thank you guys so much for

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joining feel free to reach out if you

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have any questions we'd love to talk to

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you and hope you have an awesome time

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watching this launch yeah absolutely

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have fun soak it up take advantage of

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all the opportunities even if you can't

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be there in person there's still so much

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that can be done online and there's so

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much interesting stuff that you can

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share with your followers who we think

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they'll they'll really enjoy all of this

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so thank you for your interest your care

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[Music]

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so we'll jump right in and introduce our

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guests today first up we have Rachel

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Berry who is joining us from Houston

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Texas Rachel you want to tell us a

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little bit about yourself yeah you

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probably just got to fill your complete

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fill of this of what we get to do every

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day which is a dream job

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so yeah turn stories of science that

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happens on the space station perfect and

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then joining us as well is Erin Anthony

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also in Houston Texas

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Erin you want to give us a quick intro

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to what you do sure yeah you know I get

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to work really closely with Rachel on

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sharing these stories of Space Station

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science and and you know the best thing

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is be able to help rates but all of this

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in shâm social media which is perfect

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for talking to a NASA social science yes

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for sure so we're gonna jump right in

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with your questions alright so we have

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one question from our audience they want

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to know how does the research in space

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help prepare to send humans on a journey

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to Mars and beyond as an Amin that's a

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great question I can start that off if

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boy right now we're looking a lot into

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how it can help us get to the moon and

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then how we can go on from there to Mars

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you know the space station is an

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environment where people can live in

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space long term we're able to learn both

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about how the human body behaves in

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response to the microgravity environment

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and to space but they're also able to

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test technologies help us live on the

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moon for example beam it's an explorer

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module that is connected to the space

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station and we were able to test that

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how an expandable module could work in

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space and then later we can transfer it

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on to our exploration on the moon and

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possibly don't so there's looking on I

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don't know Rachel you have any others

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you want to mention - yeah absolutely in

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the last year or two we've had a series

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of experiments called mix which is

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understanding how cement solidifies in

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microgravity and looking at that as an

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or being able to you know use the mills

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that are on the moon the regolith and

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create 3d printed structures so this

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study was doing that first step of

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understanding how does cement even set

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up in microgravity and there have been

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some really interesting results from

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that so those are just a couple of the

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ways that what we're studying it's

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helping us get further out into space

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really cool thank you to you both I have

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another one from Kurt and he wants to

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know how many hours per day do

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astronauts work versus time off how much

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of their work day is doing research

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versus maintenance that's a great

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question

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they usually have about 12 hour work

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days and it depends it fluctuates on how

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much of that time is spent doing science

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versus maintenance usually and I would

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have to check with hours to confirm but

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usually about a 20 split on the science

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and maintenance they also have about two

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hours a day doing exercises I'm sure

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that their bones and muscles healthy but

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yeah they we've had astronauts talk

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about how in the morning they can be

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plumbers working on the toilet and in

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the afternoon they're working on cancer

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research so it's a pretty it's a pretty

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diverse worth day for them sure

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definitely an interesting life those

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astronauts have so we have another

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question for you how can students get

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involved in Space Station research start

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this off one interesting thing to

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mention it might seem unrelated but is

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actually would have been Kelly Ryan's

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birthday and she left a pretty cool

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legacy as far as implement with

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education and should research we have a

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really cool program called earth cam

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I'll let Rachel talk on it though a

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little bit I she's a huge Sally Ride and

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so I can't take from her yeah so earth

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cam is an awesome program that has we

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have a camera that's on space station

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and students can actually sign up

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teachers and students can sign up to be

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able to program that camera on the space

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station to snap pictures of different

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parts of the world and then get

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those pictures back to them so they're

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actually able to interact and take these

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pictures on the space station and I am a

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huge Sally Ride and I have a Sally Ride

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tattoo because she was just a really

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inspiring educator and scientists and

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and a big advocate for representation in

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science so we love that we get to

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continue that legacy on the space

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station

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that's incredible thank you so much so

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we have time for one more question what

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is the most exciting thing about space

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I'd say for me the human aspect I've

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always been a huge fan of human

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spaceflight and what humans are able to

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bring to this it's amazing

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that humans created this space program

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we make all this stuff happen and it's

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incredible to watch this research in

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space every day so for me it's all about

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the people

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Erin yeah and you know I just joined the

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team last July so I a lot of the time

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I've been looking at space from the

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outside and for the last year to be able

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to experience but the hard work that

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people put into it on the inside and

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honestly it's not just the humans that

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are in space but Murat's Dury of

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everyone on the ground who's working

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together on this joint pin it's the

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international collaboration that's

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involved with space and human

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collaboration if we think incredible

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well we get to work the people we get to

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see that are helping spread this message

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through communications and everything

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it's really a joy to work on this

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worldwide project and really see

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outcomes the benefits to humanity that

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come from it it's not just about going

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for their damara's it's really about

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what we can do here on earth and help

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learn more about our planet as well yes

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absolutely great and through answers

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from both of you unfortunately we are

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out of time but I just want to say thank

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you to Aaron and Rachel for taking the

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time to video chat with us which you too

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are here in person of course but I thank

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you for chatting with us don't go away

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we actually have another episode coming

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up in just a few minutes

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for all the educators and students out

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there who are looking to learn a little

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bit more about the mission and some

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interactive activities they can do so