1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,106 WHY ARE WE SENDING SEEDS 2 00:00:03,106 --> 00:00:04,562 A ROBOTIC ARM 3 00:00:04,562 --> 00:00:06,122 A NEW RESEARCH FACILITY 4 00:00:06,122 --> 00:00:08,921 AND CONCRETE TO THE SPACE STATION? 5 00:00:08,921 --> 00:00:13,448 THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS A LAB LIKE NO OTHER 6 00:00:13,448 --> 00:00:18,359 A SPACEX DRAGON WILL SOON DELIVER DOZENS OF NEW EXPERIMENTS 7 00:00:18,359 --> 00:00:23,888 LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT’S ON BOARD THE 23RD SPACEX CARGO MISSION 8 00:00:23,888 --> 00:00:25,767 APEX-08 9 00:00:25,767 --> 00:00:30,000 GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED SEEDS COULD HELP RESEARCHERS DESIGN 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,520 PLANTS BETTER SUITED FOR MICROGRAVITY. 11 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,263 FARADAY RESEARCH FACILITY 12 00:00:36,263 --> 00:00:40,226 A NEW MULTIPURPOSE RESEARCH FACILITY WILL HOST A VARIETY OF EXPERIMENTS, INCLUDING 13 00:00:40,226 --> 00:00:44,192 STUDIES DEVELOPED BY GIRL SCOUTS, AND AN IMPLANT TO REMOTELY ADMINISTER DRUGS. 14 00:00:44,192 --> 00:00:46,468 MISSE-15 NASA 15 00:00:46,468 --> 00:00:50,034 CONCRETE, FIBERGLASS COMPOSITES, SOLAR CELLS, RADIATION PROTECTION MATERIALS, AND 16 00:00:50,034 --> 00:00:54,464 MORE WILL BE TESTED FOR DURABILITY IN THE HARSH SPACE ENVIRONMENT. 17 00:00:54,464 --> 00:00:57,394 NANORACKS-GITAI ROBOTIC ARM 18 00:00:57,394 --> 00:01:00,374 A JAPANESE ROBOTIC ARM WILL CONDUCT A SERIES OF TASKS TO DEMONSTRATE HOW ROBOTIC LABOR 19 00:01:00,374 --> 00:01:04,450 COULD REDUCE THE COST OF SPACECRAFT OPERATIONS AND IMPROVE CREW SAFETY. 20 00:01:04,450 --> 00:01:06,282 READI-FP 21 00:01:06,282 --> 00:01:09,680 RESEARCHERS WILL STUDY HOW BIOACTIVE METABOLITES IN WINE PRODUCTION 22 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,527 WASTE COULD MITIGATE BONES LOSS RELATED TO OSTEOPOROSIS. 23 00:01:14,527 --> 00:01:15,681 RETINAL DIAGNOSTICS 24 00:01:15,681 --> 00:01:20,976 RESEARCHERS WILL CAPTURE IMAGES OF ASTRONAUTS’ RETINAS TO TEST A SMALL, LIGHT-BASED 25 00:01:20,976 --> 00:01:25,009 DEVICE WHICH MAY SERVE AS A MOBILE RETINAL DIAGNOSTICS TOOL IN SPACE AND ON EARTH.