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hello and welcome aboard the

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international space station i'm nasa

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astronaut megan macarthur along with my

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crewmate shane kimbrough we are getting

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ready for the spacex 23 cargo mission

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coming up soon and we're very excited

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it's going to be keeping us pretty busy

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hey megan let's go show them around the

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space station a little bit and we'll

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show you where some of these experiments

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are going to be done

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welcome to the european module called

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columbus this is where a lot of the

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spacex 23

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experiments are going to hang out one of

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those is called apex 8 which is going to

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study the response to stressors at the

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genetic level of plants now they're

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going to be really small plants in petri

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dishes that we're going to eventually

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put into this facility here that's

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called veggie it's a veggie plant growth

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facility on my last flight i got to grow

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lettuce in here and we got to actually

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harvest that and eat it so that's pretty

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cool one of the things we're trying to

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do is to learn how to engineer plants to

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grow better in microgravity and what we

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learned from that will be able to help

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us in the future in space travel but

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also help people on earth grow things

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better

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this isn't the only facility we have on

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the international space station to grow

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things we have an advanced plant habitat

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and currently we're growing chili

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peppers in there which we hope to

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harvest towards the end of our mission

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so now we're in the u.s laboratory which

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is called destiny and this is one of our

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main areas for conducting science on the

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international space station one of the

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things that makes the international

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space station such a versatile research

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lab are the express racks there's a

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couple of them right here over my head

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and the cool thing about these is that

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it allows different researchers from

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around the world to send up their own

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payload and the express rack provides

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the power and data

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cooling whatever that particular payload

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needs one of the new facilities that

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will be coming up on spacex 23 cargo

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mission is called the faraday research

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facility and it's able to house four

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different experiments at once three of

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them will house small organisms the

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fourth experiment will be a medical

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experiment to look at remote

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remote-controlled delivery of medication

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so that will be an interesting

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technology demonstration as well and

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we'll be able to install that facility