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and once again we have live downlink

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this is Spacelab mission operations

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control we are now receiving live

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downlink from orbiter Columbia this view

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go ahead for the daily status check once

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again we're continuing to receive live

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downlink from the space lab module

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inside Columbia's cargo bay and the view

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we're seeing here is coming from a

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camera that is mounted in the aft end of

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the space lab module this camera is

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looking forward in the module and so we

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are seeing the right-hand side or the

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and just if you point out a few of the

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things we're seeing in this view if we

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look at the left-hand most part of the

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of the view here we see the like yellow

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to yellow boxes and what those are is

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that is where the Space Lab VCRs are

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located those VCRs used to record all

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the video that comes from these cameras

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that we are seeing we only get portions

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small opportunity to opportunities to

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the video that those cameras take and

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then moving more to the just to the

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right we see the bubble drop in particle

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unit unit experiment that again is one

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of the facilities that is uses the crew

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to load the different test chambers and

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initiate the test runs and then the

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experiments are the test runs are then

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remotely commanded to and operated from

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operations control and further to the

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right almost directly in the center of

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your screen in the green-colored rack is

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what is that is where the astronaut lung

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function experiment is located again

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that experiment is studying the effects

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of weightlessness on the human pulmonary

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system and just on the bottom left-hand

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the crew members this particular one

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being payload specialist Bob Thirsk who

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is performing activities in the torque

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velocity dynamometer which is located in

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dr. Douglas what of mcgill university in

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montreal is the chief scientist behind

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the tree experiments his devoted as

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careers trying to understand how the

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vestibular system or our inner ears

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balance and orientation Center how its

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functions and how specifically it adapts

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to a weightless environment the idea for

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the torso rotation experiment first came

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to dr. watts several years ago when one

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of his colleagues suffered an injury

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that required the wearing of a rigid

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next place the colleague mission to dr.

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around on the laboratory began to

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develop symptoms of nausea muscle

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location is a term that we use to

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describe a person who rigidly fixes

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their head to their torso and such that

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when they have to turn their head to the

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right or to the left they have to turn

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their whole torso as well what's the

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rotation is example of an abnormal motor

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strategy in which the subject

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concentrates on a body frame of

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reference rather than the external world

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normal way that our vestibular apparatus

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in our brain likes to operate another

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good example of suppressing the normal

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way that our brain and vestibular system

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likes to operate is someone who's trying

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to read a book inside a car that is

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place of product focus on the books when

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to the X the world at that we see

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several people who try to read books

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inside moving cars become motion sick as

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well what is interesting to dr. wat is

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that astronauts tend to inadvertently

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develop a torso rotation motor strategy

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of spaceflight and we probably do this

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to try to minimize our symptoms of

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motion sickness but in fact we might be

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exacerbating the symptoms the doctor

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Watts torso rotation experiment study on

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the life and microgravity Space Lab

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mission we are going to be measuring our

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eye movements with special electrodes

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that we apply to our faith

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the special velocity rate center that we

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rigidly fixed to the top of our head it

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also will be measuring our torso

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movements as well with the special

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backpack accelerometer which is fixed to

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our back after the flight is over dr.

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what is going to compare our eye

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movements to our head movements and our

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head movements to our chest movements

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and he'll be looking for any evidence

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that we might have adopted some torso

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rotation motor strategy during this

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flight will be doing this experiment was

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early in the mission we've already done

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flights a couple of days and again

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towards the last day or two of the space

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mission if it turns out in fact that

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we'd have a dot to torso rotation motor

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strategy during the flight which might

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cause symptoms of motion sickness

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that'll be relatively easy to train

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future astronauts to avoid this type of

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motor strategy or to pre adapt them to

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the atypical movement environment or in

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a ground-based laboratory prior to

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flight well that's what the torso

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rotation experiments is all about if you

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see us in downly video over the next few

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days wearing strange-looking apparatus

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on our head or on our chest you know

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that will be just checking out to see

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that whether or not we are trying to

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unconsciously suppress the normal way

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that our vestibular apparatus likes to

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operate well that's it today from the

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space shuttle columbia tune in tomorrow

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to learn what are the other exciting

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now in view of from Columbia the outer