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hello everyone and welcome to today's

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briefing on the science and research

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cargo headed up to the international

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space station aboard orbital's cygnus

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science

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cygnus cargo spacecraft

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antares rocket is scheduled to lift off

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tomorrow at 6 45 pm eastern time

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from launch pad 0a at the mid-atlantic

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regional space port here at wallops

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flight facility in virginia there are

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more than 600 pounds alone of science

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cargo headed up on board cygnus and to

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talk about some of those investigations

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and how they'll expand the research

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capabilities of the space station crew

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our camila lean assistant international

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space station program scientist

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brian talbot

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cases director of marketing and

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and jeff goldstein student space flight

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experiments program principal

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for those of you watching on tv today

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we'll take questions using the hashtag

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asknasa

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and with that we'll go ahead and start

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go ahead camille thank you rachel hello

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good afternoon thank you so much for

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joining us today

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it is our pleasure to share with you

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some of the science that will be

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launched on tomorrow's orbital cygnus

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spacecraft which brings additional

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critical u.s capability to ensure the

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successful research activities that are

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going on on board the space station

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the cygnus spacecraft can accommodate a

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variety of scientific payloads within

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its pressurized cargo

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capsule and this particular launch will

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carry a little over 680 kilograms

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of science payloads which as i

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understand it is almost about a third of

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the total supplies that will be

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delivered tomorrow to the space station

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over the course of a year we conduct

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hundreds of experiments on board the

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space station in a variety of

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disciplines including biology and

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biotechnology

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human research physical science earth

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we do technology demonstration and

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development and lastly education

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to date we have conducted about 1600

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investigations on board this station

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that represent

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approximately 1500 scientists

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from about 69 countries around the world

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these results

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that are analyzed really helped to

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advance our core knowledge of the

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natural world around us it also enables

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to further explore our solar system and

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finally it contributes to improving the

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of our lives here on earth

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this particular launch will send

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supplies necessary to support the

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ongoing investigations

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across the several disciplines but it

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will also send up some new

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investigations that we'll share with you

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here today

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the first investigation i'll talk about

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is called meteo

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and it will be the first space-based

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observation of the chemical compositions

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of meteos entering earth's atmosphere

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as you know meteors are relatively rare

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and they're really difficult to monitor

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from the ground because of the

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interference of the earth's atmosphere

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so it's really exciting to be able to

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study them from the vantage point of

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this investigation was developed by the

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southwest research institute and it uses

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video and image analysis to determine

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the physical and chemical composition of

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investigating these compositions of the

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meteors adds to our understanding of how

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planets are developed continuous

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measurements of the meteor interaction

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with earth's atmosphere also could spot

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the second investigation i'll talk about

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is one of our human health

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experiments called drain brain

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and this is sponsored by the italian

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it will try to determine how blood flows

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understanding this blood flow makes it

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possible for researchers to to develop

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countermeasures to treat headaches and

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other neurological symptoms that have

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there is a special neck collar that will

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be used to measure the blood flow from

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the brain and it does not require

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this could make this collar a useful

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tool for monitoring patients on earth

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drain brain also could have implications

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for development of screening mechanisms

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the final investigation i will talk

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about today happens upon re-entry of a

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spacecraft

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on board the cygnus is the re-entry

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breakup recorder we call reba and this

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one is equipped with wireless sensors

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this device will be placed on the atv 5

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and breakup of the vehicle from wireless

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sensors placed throughout the host

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the data return is analyzed and used to

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design future spacecraft that minimize

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hazards to both people and property on

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so again these investigations are just a

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sample of the science that is enabled by

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tomorrow's orbital launch that

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contributes to the advancement of human

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and as well as our daily lives here on

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great thank you camille um

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it's really exciting to be here today to

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talk about the week week's launch as

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well as what's been a month of exciting

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developments for the iss national

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laboratory as the managers of the

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national laboratory cases was tasked

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with three key areas of focus for the

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organization

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one to create innovation cycles where

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first class science is driving new

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technologies intellectual property as

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well as commercial and product

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two to utilize the iss to develop new

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capabilities and three education and

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outreach to use the iss as a premier

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platform for inspiring learning and

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the developments in october all

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represent major strides forward as well

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as small steps forward in each of those

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so in regards to innovation cycles

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cases is strategic objective number one

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cases just announced a series of life

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sciences investigations from baylor

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college of medicine houston methodist as

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well as ucla

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these will look in areas including

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osteoporosis personalized medicine

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as well as genomics in an omics platform

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we also just released a new request for

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information that's going to enable

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disease model research to accelerate

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space research and understanding human

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identifying drug targets as well as

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evaluating new therapeutics

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also this month we introduced a request

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for proposals that was announced that

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will explore earth observation in order

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to benefit energy technologies and

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finally we're very excited about science

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experiments that returned yesterday on

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the the spacex capsule

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on our first protein crystal growth

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experiments so those looked at cystic

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fibrosis huntington's disease as well as

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parkinson's disease so we're very

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in regards to new capability cases his

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second strategic objective

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last week we introduced a suite of six

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funding awards as part of our enabling

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technologies request for proposals that

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was put out earlier this year we

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received a great response to this rfp

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and technologies came from a diverse mix

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of companies in the essence of time i

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products which i think are pretty

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the first comes from dr doswell of

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juxtopia so they're going to be

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developing an innovative augmented

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goggle system so the comparison

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technology would be a google glass

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built for the iss those augmented

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virtual assistance that seeks to improve

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the speed and accuracy with which

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astronauts can perform iss natural lab

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markets for these technologies when you

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emergency responders as well as austere

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exciting coming out of that request for

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proposals was the intuitive machines

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that was actually featured in popular

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science earlier this week so they're

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going to be testing a terrestrial return

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vehicle that addresses the need for

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small priority payload

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return from the iss so you'll be able to

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deliver up to 30 liters of

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we're very excited about those as we

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think they're going to help drive

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further utilization of the iss

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in regards to education or outreach

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which is the third uh case of strategic

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objective this um this flight represents

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a great opportunity there so the mission

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is going to be launching 16 cases

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sponsored research experiments the iss

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national stem programs both fostering a

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love for learning among elementary and

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ten of those experiments jeff is going

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to be talking about in a little while

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which is a part of his portfolio from

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the student space flight experiments

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program this is their sixth mission and

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case is a very proud sponsor of that

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program the other six investigations

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are coming through the cases national

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design challenge and those are coming

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all six of those are coming from that

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area and we're excited

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to represent christo ray jesuit audi

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academy which i'll be sending

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experiments up and we're also very

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excited that the crystal ray jesuit

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community will be here tomorrow to watch

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so in summary this is a very exciting

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from new users and government commercial

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opportunities for student communities

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there's there's a lot of great progress

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well rachel thanks for having me um it's

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wonderful working on this program with

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nasa

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and i'm here to talk about the student

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space flight experiments program i'm the

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center director for the national center

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for earth and space science education

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we're a non-profit and the center in

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partnership with the arthur c clarke

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institute for space education oversees

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the student space flight experiments

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program or ssep

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the reason we're here today is because

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we have the yankee clipper ssep mission

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6 to iss payload going up on orb 3.

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there are 18 experiments we just had 15

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come down on spacex for mission 5

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which was launched in

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in july on orb 2.

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it's really exciting for us to have been

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on all four orbital sciences launches to

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the international space station and it's

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kind of amazing to think that just in

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four and a half years since program

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inception

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this is now our um eighth payload going

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into orbit the first two on the sp final

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space shuttle flights and six to iss um

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i'd like to uh just acknowledge a number

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of partners here

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we do this in a concert with our

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strategic partner nanorax

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which flies commercial payloads through

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a space act agreement with nasa

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and we are also very proud to be

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in national partnership with the center

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for the advancement of science and space

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for cases

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as well as subaru of america

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and each of the flight opportunities for

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sss works with a network of communities

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which at the local level represents a

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network of local partners so for mission

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6

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we have over 100 partner school

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districts companies foundations

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universities and other research

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institutions that make this possible

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the 18 mission 6 experiments represent

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over 6

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500 students in grades 5 through 15 so

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that includes

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four-year colleges and universities

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working on microgravity experiment

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design and over 1400 proposals that were

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submitted by student teams for flight

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experiments so let me first give you a

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sense of how sscp works

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it's essentially a call for proposals

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and the idea is to absolutely mirror how

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professional researchers do their thing

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if there's a limited professional

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research asset that nasa has available

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not enough to go around to the research

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community that wants to use it nasa will

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issue a call for proposals and

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researchers all over the country will

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design a research program that makes use

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of that asset and propose

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to make a case justify why they ought to

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get the asset as opposed to some other

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group and there is a review and

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selection process to essentially

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identify who gets the asset well ssep

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works the same way every one of the

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participating communities

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gets a limited research asset which is a

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microgravity research mini laboratory a

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fluid mixing enclosure and i'm showing

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this right now very easy to use very

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straightforward very powerful

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and

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the community gets guaranteed launch

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services to get that mini lab to iss and

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return it safely to earth for harvesting

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and analysis

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and so the the mini lab can only contain

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a single student team designed

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experiment so each community through a

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team of educators will engage typically

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300 plus students

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in real microgravity design and

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experiment

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those students will break into teams of

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typically three to five and each team is

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designing their own microgravity

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experiment and each team is their fly

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isn't here each team each team is

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writing uh their own proposal and

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typically 60 to 120 proposals are seen

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across a community and all those

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proposals go through a two-step review

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process and the national review board

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that meets at the smithsonian's national

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air and space museum will select the

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flight experiment for each community so

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that's how it works it's it what we're

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doing is we are immersing

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thousands of students in every facet of

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real microgravity experiment design and

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proposal writing so that we can inspire

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and engage the next generation of

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america scientists and engineers and

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canada's by the way because we have a

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community our second community from

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canada on the mission six payload so let

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me just uh say that uh with regard to

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this mini lab uh very powerful it's a

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it's simply a tube that can be sectioned

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into up to three volumes

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and one can imagine for instance

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a biological

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in a freeze-dried format placed in one

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volume a growth medium say in the second

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volume like luria broth and in the third

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volume you might have a fixative like

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glutaraldehyde which will kill and

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preserve the biology before deorbit and

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reintroduction into a 1g environment so

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the students have to design against

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submission of the payload a few weeks

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before

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launch so the experiments have to be put

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in stasis they have to take into account

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the thermal controls along the different

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transport legs they have to take into

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account the specific crew interaction

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days that nasa makes available and the

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crew interactions they are constrained

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by this real operation of this mini

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laboratory and real space flight

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operations to and from low earth orbit

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so with regard to the experiments that

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are flying there's a very large range of

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science disciplines flying on

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uh yankee clipper we've got crystal

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growth efficacy of composting in

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microgravity a number of bacterial

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studies including growth of coliform

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bacteria efficacy of biocides on

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bacteria e coli attachment to lettuce

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growth and development of mosquitoes and

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house flies seed germination and

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geotropism studies hydroponic studies

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microaquatic life in the in the form of

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development of fairy shrimp and rate of

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food spoilage so it really is a

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very diverse array of

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experiments

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in the press package is a table that

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lists all of the 18 communities their

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experiments their teams their grade

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levels and eight of those teams will be

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at launch we've got 150 delegates at the

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launch and there'll be a

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nasa has invited us to do a media

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briefing tomorrow

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where all of the teams will be

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presenting on their experiments so let

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me just say uh

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in in closing this is koichi wakata

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activating one of the many labs on orbit

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this was a mission 4

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mini lab that went up on orb 2 and this

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is happening in january

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the next slide is a picture of our team

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from ocean city new jersey which is

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looking at e coli attachment to lettuce

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and this third image is a dc team

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which is looking at chrysanthemum

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seedling development and let me just say

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that the dc team is our first four-year

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college and university community led by

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american university and seven a

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consortium of seven metro area

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universities and these students

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participating are future science

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teachers so the idea was to immerse

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future science teachers in research so

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that they could see how it works and let

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me also say one last thing about another

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team from north charleston south

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carolina who are here and i see them in

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the audience

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what's interesting about this team is

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they're looking at whisker growth in

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microgravity these are whisker-like

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metallic crystals that form on

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printed circuit boards a real problem in

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microgravity and the reason i mentioned

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them is that this team submitted a

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proposal last year last cycle and got as

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far as the finalist stage

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and they did not get selected but based

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on the strength and weaknesses comments

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of the review panel they resubmitted and

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now they're the flight experiment and

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that's exactly how professional research

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happens

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so i wanted to point that out because we

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thought that that was a wonderful

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example of how this program is supposed

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okay we'll take some questions from here

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in the room and as a reminder if you

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have any social media questions you can

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send us to us using the hashtag asknasa

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go ahead ken hi ken kramer universe

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today in america space i have a question

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for camille and and for jeff uh from

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camille can you talk about this meteor

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experiment a little bit what what what

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does it involve uh how are the

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astronauts involved is very interesting

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for jeff

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i'd like to talk to you about senator

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coburn he criticized your program i find

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this extremely disheartening as a

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scientist that he would criticize

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student scientists so i would like you

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to respond to his criticism thank you

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so to your first question the meteor

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investigation uh includes hardware that

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is both video

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and imaging

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capability and it will

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be

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set to take those images of the meteor

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as it's

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flying through the atmosphere um so

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developed by southwest research

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it is uh active

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the the

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camera equipment is installed in the

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wharf

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which is a window

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can i think let me i knew this question

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was going to come up and i just wanted

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to read the quote from roll call

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what senator coburn said was while the

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encouraging young people to take an

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interest in science is an important goal

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the billions of dollars being borrowed

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to support space station science fair

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experiments could make a bigger impact

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in the lives of these and other children

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in many other more cost efficient ways

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we were very disheartened by that

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statement the first thing is

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he's he's putting this in a very

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derogatory sense i mean as i said before

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these are thousands of students being

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immersed in real research to see it for

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themselves

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and these students are the next

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generation of scientists and engineers

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these students are in the pipeline to

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ensure that america's space program can

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continue for decades to come this is

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really important stuff and to diminish

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what these student researchers is doing

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is not right the other issue is he's way

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off the mark with regard to funding he's

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saying that there's billions of dollars

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being spent in support of these programs

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let's let's set the record straight

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right now um

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when whenever a community comes aboard

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and let's take mission six the cost to

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our non-profit full cost recovery is

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twenty one thousand five hundred dollars

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to to support one community

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and we've taken the precedent setting

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step to work with those communities to

573
00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:04,080
find a consortium of underwriting

574
00:22:09,110 --> 00:22:07,600
partners in the private sector to build

575
00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:09,120
that funding and we've been very

576
00:22:13,909 --> 00:22:11,840
successful so for mission five which is

577
00:22:16,070 --> 00:22:13,919
what he was talking about the total

578
00:22:18,390 --> 00:22:16,080
program cost was six hundred and twenty

579
00:22:20,149 --> 00:22:18,400
two thousand dollars when you roll in

580
00:22:23,110 --> 00:22:20,159
the fully burdened labor hours of the

581
00:22:25,510 --> 00:22:23,120
teachers involved and we raised five

582
00:22:28,070 --> 00:22:25,520
hundred and seventy two thousand dollars

583
00:22:29,830 --> 00:22:28,080
in the private sector and the reason

584
00:22:32,470 --> 00:22:29,840
that the fifty thousand so fifty

585
00:22:33,990 --> 00:22:32,480
thousand dollars was allocated from

586
00:22:36,549 --> 00:22:34,000
space station

587
00:22:38,230 --> 00:22:36,559
federal dollars for operation and where

588
00:22:40,230 --> 00:22:38,240
did that fifty thousand dollars come

589
00:22:43,110 --> 00:22:40,240
from it came from our our wonderful

590
00:22:45,350 --> 00:22:43,120
national partner cases because in many

591
00:22:47,590 --> 00:22:45,360
of these communities we work really hard

592
00:22:50,549 --> 00:22:47,600
to get to that 21.5 and there might be

593
00:22:53,110 --> 00:22:50,559
this little delta left over a couple of

594
00:22:54,549 --> 00:22:53,120
thousand dollars and if if we can't fill

595
00:22:56,950 --> 00:22:54,559
that budget shortfall they can't

596
00:22:59,270 --> 00:22:56,960
participate and cases gives us fifty

597
00:23:01,830 --> 00:22:59,280
thousand dollars a year permission just

598
00:23:03,990 --> 00:23:01,840
to fill those gaps to get those

599
00:23:07,110 --> 00:23:04,000
communities aboard so we're talking

600
00:23:09,510 --> 00:23:07,120
about eight percent in federal dollars

601
00:23:11,750 --> 00:23:09,520
on this mission the next mission flying

602
00:23:14,549 --> 00:23:11,760
it's just four percent on federal

603
00:23:15,909 --> 00:23:14,559
dollars and cases by the way and you can

604
00:23:18,630 --> 00:23:15,919
speak to this

605
00:23:20,710 --> 00:23:18,640
one of its strategic mandates is to

606
00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:20,720
leverage stem education on the

607
00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:22,480
international space station so you can

608
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,149
okay other questions

609
00:23:42,149 --> 00:23:35,110
moving on social media

610
00:23:46,149 --> 00:23:43,669
all right this first question comes from

611
00:23:47,669 --> 00:23:46,159
twitter user launch complex who asks are

612
00:23:49,430 --> 00:23:47,679
any of the experiments designed

613
00:23:53,909 --> 00:23:49,440
specifically to fly with cygnus or could

614
00:23:59,350 --> 00:23:56,630
i'll say they can fly aboard any vehicle

615
00:24:02,310 --> 00:23:59,360
but it must be a pressurized uh vehicle

616
00:24:07,830 --> 00:24:02,320
so cygnus provides that capability of

617
00:24:12,870 --> 00:24:10,149
all right twitter user kieran asks how

618
00:24:17,029 --> 00:24:12,880
much space does the payload uh from the

619
00:24:19,430 --> 00:24:17,039
ss ep6 experiments uh prepared uh how

620
00:24:23,110 --> 00:24:19,440
much does that take up on the rocket

621
00:24:25,750 --> 00:24:23,120
uh i believe it's either 10 or 12 tubes

622
00:24:26,950 --> 00:24:25,760
in a payload box which is a 2u box about

623
00:24:29,669 --> 00:24:26,960
this big

624
00:24:32,390 --> 00:24:29,679
and so if we have 18 that's two

625
00:24:36,630 --> 00:24:32,400
2u boxes so 20 centimeters by 10

626
00:24:41,830 --> 00:24:39,269
all right then uh kryptonite here asks

627
00:24:43,510 --> 00:24:41,840
what is the goal overall

628
00:24:45,029 --> 00:24:43,520
why are we doing science with this why

629
00:24:48,549 --> 00:24:45,039
are we launching all this

630
00:24:52,390 --> 00:24:48,559
well our goal uh for doing research on

631
00:24:55,029 --> 00:24:52,400
the space station is three-fold one is

632
00:24:56,390 --> 00:24:55,039
to really advance our knowledge of

633
00:24:58,710 --> 00:24:56,400
understanding

634
00:25:00,870 --> 00:24:58,720
our environment our natural environment

635
00:25:03,269 --> 00:25:00,880
i think that is what science is it's the

636
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:03,279
understanding of the natural environment

637
00:25:09,029 --> 00:25:06,400
around us secondly is to enable us to

638
00:25:11,909 --> 00:25:09,039
explore further explore space

639
00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:11,919
and thirdly to contribute to the

640
00:25:15,110 --> 00:25:12,960
benefit

641
00:25:16,870 --> 00:25:15,120
of humanity's

642
00:25:18,870 --> 00:25:16,880
life here on earth

643
00:25:21,430 --> 00:25:18,880
and let me let me answer that i think

644
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:21,440
that any parent recognizes in their

645
00:25:26,549 --> 00:25:23,200
children when they're very young that we

646
00:25:29,430 --> 00:25:26,559
are we are born curious we are born to

647
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:29,440
explore it's it's wired in us that's

648
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:31,520
what it means to be human

649
00:25:37,669 --> 00:25:34,960
and and we as a species are curious

650
00:25:41,269 --> 00:25:37,679
about our place in a greater space we

651
00:25:43,430 --> 00:25:41,279
are wired we are born to go forth

652
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:43,440
and the international space station is

653
00:25:49,190 --> 00:25:46,480
part of that mandate we are born to go

654
00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:49,200
forth and we do these things because we

655
00:25:53,590 --> 00:25:51,840
are meant to do these things

656
00:25:55,190 --> 00:25:53,600
let me just add briefly too there's just

657
00:25:57,269 --> 00:25:55,200
certain characteristics of doing

658
00:25:59,110 --> 00:25:57,279
microgravity research that that is the

659
00:26:00,710 --> 00:25:59,120
only place in the world in the universe

660
00:26:02,390 --> 00:26:00,720
where you can turn the gravity vector

661
00:26:03,830 --> 00:26:02,400
off and so there's unique things that

662
00:26:05,510 --> 00:26:03,840
you can do from a life sciences

663
00:26:07,430 --> 00:26:05,520
perspective from a materials development

664
00:26:08,549 --> 00:26:07,440
perspective from an earth observation

665
00:26:10,470 --> 00:26:08,559
perspective that you just can't do

666
00:26:11,669 --> 00:26:10,480
anywhere else so that's why

667
00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:11,679
iss

668
00:26:16,710 --> 00:26:13,120
experiments are so important to

669
00:26:24,310 --> 00:26:19,990
okay other questions here in the room

670
00:26:28,149 --> 00:26:26,230
hi my name is mandy i'm with uh nasa

671
00:26:29,750 --> 00:26:28,159
social i'm actually an occupational

672
00:26:31,269 --> 00:26:29,760
therapist so i work with a lot of

673
00:26:34,789 --> 00:26:31,279
alzheimer's patients and dementia

674
00:26:36,950 --> 00:26:34,799
patients so i was curious about um

675
00:26:40,070 --> 00:26:36,960
when would the device that you were

676
00:26:41,269 --> 00:26:40,080
mentioning that scans for alzheimer's is

677
00:26:42,950 --> 00:26:41,279
that something that we could possibly

678
00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:42,960
see in the near future

679
00:26:46,630 --> 00:26:44,320
and um

680
00:26:47,990 --> 00:26:46,640
i mean if so how exactly would it go

681
00:26:50,549 --> 00:26:48,000
about

682
00:26:53,110 --> 00:26:50,559
scanning for alzheimer's i mean

683
00:26:54,149 --> 00:26:53,120
i don't know if you know the details but

684
00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:54,159
but um

685
00:26:57,990 --> 00:26:55,440
at least is it something that we could

686
00:27:00,789 --> 00:26:58,000
see in the near future so this is the

687
00:27:03,350 --> 00:27:00,799
first time that this investigation is

688
00:27:05,990 --> 00:27:03,360
being conducted conducted on the space

689
00:27:08,870 --> 00:27:06,000
station so tomorrow's launch enables

690
00:27:11,510 --> 00:27:08,880
this equipment to go up to the space

691
00:27:14,549 --> 00:27:11,520
station and for researchers to really

692
00:27:17,269 --> 00:27:14,559
study this phenomenon of how the blood

693
00:27:19,510 --> 00:27:17,279
flows from the brain to the heart in the

694
00:27:21,190 --> 00:27:19,520
absence of gravity because gravity is an

695
00:27:22,630 --> 00:27:21,200
important

696
00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:22,640
vector

697
00:27:26,470 --> 00:27:23,520
in

698
00:27:29,110 --> 00:27:26,480
how a human body functions and so not

699
00:27:31,909 --> 00:27:29,120
having that gravitational

700
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:31,919
element in the equation really changes

701
00:27:37,909 --> 00:27:34,880
the dynamics of how the human body

702
00:27:40,549 --> 00:27:37,919
adapts and so this investigation looks

703
00:27:42,789 --> 00:27:40,559
at that for the first time and allows

704
00:27:44,149 --> 00:27:42,799
researchers to really try and develop

705
00:27:45,430 --> 00:27:44,159
countermeasures

706
00:27:51,830 --> 00:27:45,440
to

707
00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:51,840
astronauts are experiencing

708
00:27:58,389 --> 00:27:55,360
in this space adaptation environment

709
00:28:01,430 --> 00:27:58,399
so i think that it probably will be a

710
00:28:03,909 --> 00:28:01,440
while before this equipment

711
00:28:05,590 --> 00:28:03,919
comes back and is really

712
00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:05,600
spun off into

713
00:28:09,909 --> 00:28:08,000
something that also can be used for

714
00:28:12,950 --> 00:28:09,919
alzheimer's patients but that's

715
00:28:18,950 --> 00:28:12,960
definitely potential uh a potential

716
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:27,990
okay other questions

717
00:28:33,190 --> 00:28:30,389
chase turner nationalist social my

718
00:28:34,310 --> 00:28:33,200
question is well i have two um

719
00:28:37,830 --> 00:28:34,320
one is

720
00:28:39,269 --> 00:28:37,840
with the telemetry for the rebar program

721
00:28:40,710 --> 00:28:39,279
is that something that amateur radio

722
00:28:42,630 --> 00:28:40,720
operators around the world will be able

723
00:28:45,350 --> 00:28:42,640
to listen into

724
00:28:47,590 --> 00:28:45,360
and my second is what sorts of cubesats

725
00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:47,600
are being launched is it from around the

726
00:28:51,669 --> 00:28:50,240
world or just american universities uh

727
00:28:53,909 --> 00:28:51,679
this go around i'm sorry i don't know

728
00:28:55,269 --> 00:28:53,919
who to to ask you

729
00:28:56,950 --> 00:28:55,279
thank you

730
00:29:04,549 --> 00:28:56,960
i don't think yeah i'm not i'm not the

731
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:08,950
i don't i don't know about the cubesats

732
00:29:12,470 --> 00:29:11,190
is launching quite a few

733
00:29:13,990 --> 00:29:12,480
cubesats

734
00:29:15,830 --> 00:29:14,000
so you might want to go to the nanoracks

735
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:15,840
website i mean they're one of a number

736
00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:17,200
of organizations but you might want to

737
00:29:21,430 --> 00:29:18,880
go to the nanorx website and see what

738
00:29:23,990 --> 00:29:21,440
they're doing with cubesats

739
00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:24,000
and in terms of the first question about

740
00:29:31,990 --> 00:29:28,320
amateur radio enthusiasts being able to

741
00:29:34,470 --> 00:29:32,000
probably pipe into the telemetry data it

742
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:34,480
depends it probably depends on the

743
00:29:39,350 --> 00:29:36,720
frequency by which the data is being

744
00:29:42,710 --> 00:29:39,360
collected so that will be the dependent

745
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:48,389
any other questions

746
00:29:53,029 --> 00:29:49,669
sure

747
00:29:59,669 --> 00:29:56,230
so is this dude okay cool oh no i hear

748
00:30:00,470 --> 00:29:59,679
it now um so is the uh

749
00:30:02,230 --> 00:30:00,480
i have a lot of questions about the

750
00:30:05,909 --> 00:30:02,240
meteor thing because planetary planetary

751
00:30:07,510 --> 00:30:05,919
formation is like my jam so um

752
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:07,520
so you just basically take pictures of

753
00:30:10,870 --> 00:30:09,360
it and you're going to analyze just that

754
00:30:11,669 --> 00:30:10,880
image data or are you going to be able

755
00:30:13,269 --> 00:30:11,679
to like

756
00:30:14,950 --> 00:30:13,279
grab onto any of them and stick them

757
00:30:16,950 --> 00:30:14,960
into like a chromatograph or anything

758
00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:16,960
like that what's the deal so i'm not i'm

759
00:30:22,149 --> 00:30:18,960
not the principal investigator of that

760
00:30:25,430 --> 00:30:22,159
investigation okay right but the the

761
00:30:28,310 --> 00:30:25,440
idea is that you take the images and the

762
00:30:30,470 --> 00:30:28,320
video from the vantage point of space

763
00:30:32,710 --> 00:30:30,480
without the interference of the earth's

764
00:30:35,590 --> 00:30:32,720
atmosphere and that's probably going to

765
00:30:37,909 --> 00:30:35,600
give the researchers and scientists a

766
00:30:41,350 --> 00:30:37,919
clear understanding

767
00:30:45,750 --> 00:30:41,360
of the composition of meteors which they

768
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,830
okay other questions

769
00:30:54,950 --> 00:30:51,830
all right well i guess that'll do it for

770
00:30:57,430 --> 00:30:54,960
us um you can find out more about all of

771
00:31:01,110 --> 00:30:57,440
the space station science happening on

772
00:31:03,830 --> 00:31:01,120
board our orbital laboratory as well as

773
00:31:07,110 --> 00:31:03,840
the cargo headed up on cygnus tomorrow