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lot to teach us take these containers

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the green liquid inside is showing us

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how fuel swirls around in a tank while

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it moves through space what we learned

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could help us design safer more

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efficient spacecraft at any given time

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we are conducted close to 300 different

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experiments aboard the International

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Space Station research like this is

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preparing us for the future of space

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we really can't mimic the environment on

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the space station anywhere on this

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planet and it's what makes it such a

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special place and why scientists from

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many universities several companies like

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to send their science up because once

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you remove gravity many things like

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differently this season we're exploring

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why we sent science to space and what it

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takes to get it there spoiler alert you

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don't have to be a rocket scientist to

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conduct research in microgravity so this

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is our first project that's going up to

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the station and our first project

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working with you know anyone involved in

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the space burger so it's a very exciting

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time for us the transition from what am

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graduate school to Here I am sitting in

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Houston getting ready for our launch I

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can't hardly believe that it's actually

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happening

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meet Elaine one of the cofounders of Tim

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Pantages a medical device startup based

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in Virginia her company is developing a

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gel patch that can serve as a

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replacement for eardrum repair surgery

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that could have huge benefits here on

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earth but launch that gel to space and

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the opportunities for use grow even more

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first we have to back up a few steps

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putting your life's work on top of a

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rocket may seem like a daunting task but

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there's a system in place to help

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scientists who know nothing about

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spaceflight get their research into

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orbit you see NASA and its international

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partners aren't the only source of

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science aboard the space station the ISS

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US National Laboratory creates pathways

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to space for companies universities and

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even young students if you're starting a

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journey into the unknown it helps to

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have an expert at your side to navigate

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the way the National Lab connects

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researchers with implementation partners

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who provide resources and guidance for

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taking an experiment from earth to

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microgravity Elaine and her team are

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working with NanoRacks

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they have the plate reader on the space

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station that's going to be used for our

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project and they're coordinating the

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launch and getting all the materials

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together for us we're glad that we're

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working with them because we're glad

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the project that we're sending to the

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space station is looking at how

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hydrogels behave in microgravity

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conditions and we're specifically

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looking at how the structure changes and

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how drug release profiles change in the

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absence of gravity

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my name is panis - I'm a co-founder & Co

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inventor of this technology and I've

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been with team management since they

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zero hydrogels are a very important

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materials they are high volume water

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that can very well mimic the

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extracellular matrix of our body so we

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really thought that answering this

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question can really help the scientific

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community confused don't worry we've got

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you covered

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think of hydrogels like a scoop of

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gelatin not quite a liquid not quite a

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solid definitely made up of mostly water

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we can use hydrogels to cover wounds and

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even deliver antibiotics to promote

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healing for that reason hydrogels are

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being studied for use for things like

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wound care for soldiers on battlefields

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if you are far away from a hospital or a

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clinic and you can't get good medical

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care right away and that soldier has a

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wound could you apply that hydrogel

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treat any infection that might be coming

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another wound on an arm or a leg and we

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need a better way to treat that wound

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great example of a dual-purpose

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technology it's something we can use not

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only on the earth but up in space this

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research could provide previously

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unknown foundations for future hydrogel

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studies it's a great example of how

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microgravity can offer new insights into

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systems we've already explored on earth

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the data that we're collecting is so so

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basic science that it's it's hard to

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find those sorts of projects at this

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stage as a research that's really

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exciting for us as well and it's in

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space and when it gets to space it goes

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into the hands of astronauts who will

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run the experiment in Ormond just like

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training for launch landing and

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spacewalks crew members participate in

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hours of scientific training to prepare

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them for running many of the hundreds of

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experiments that are ongoing aboard the

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space station ready to go to class with

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