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wow everyone take a look at your screen

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right now for this magnificent view of

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spacex's falcon 9 rocket and cargo

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dragon it is stacked and ready at launch

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complex 39a to lift off in just about 20

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minutes the dragon spacecraft will fly

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about 4 800 pounds of crew supplies and

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science including an experiment that

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could change the way we treat

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osteoporosis dragon is also delivering

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some brine shrimp more on that soon

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thank you for joining us in the very

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early hours of this saturday morning i'm

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megan cruz with nasa communications live

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from kennedy space center here in

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florida today's launch at 3 37 a.m

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eastern time is spacex's 23rd cargo

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resupply mission for nasa to the

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international space station and we are

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again simulcasting this live show on

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nasa tv and on spacex's webcast let's

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bring in andy tran now live from

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spacex's headquarters in hawthorne

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california good morning andy it's great

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good morning megan it's really exciting

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to be here covering today's mission in

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partnership with nasa it's the third

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dragon flight to the space station this

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year and also the third cargo respy

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mission with our upgraded dragon this

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particular spacecraft debuted at the end

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of last year for crs 21 and it's the

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first reuse of the upgraded cargo

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vehicle now following a successful

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crew 2 vehicle endeavor currently on

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orbit and attached to the international

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see two dragons once again docked to the

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ahead for the rest of the year we have

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before year end that's including both

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now let's talk a little bit about falcon

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9 it's a two-stage rocket designed and

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and safe transport of people and

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payloads into earth orbit and beyond

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that is what you see on screen right now

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the vehicle stands at 70 meters tall

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that's greater than the wingspan of a

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747 aircraft just before our program

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started at the t minus 35 minute mark

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our team gave the go to begin loading

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propellants on the vehicle

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taking a closer look at the rocket the

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bottom two thirds of the vehicle is the

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first stage its objective is to

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accelerate the vehicle through the

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earth's atmospheric space and then

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first stage which actually previously

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using our brand new drone ship there it

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is on screen it's named a shortfall of

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gravitas for those keeping count if we

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do successfully land a falcon 9 today

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which ignites after the first stage

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allowing the spacecraft to eventually

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and speaking of the dragon it's sitting

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right on top of the rocket dragon was

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dragon and today's mission actually

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as for cargo today we'll be delivering

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more than 4 800 pounds of cargo to the

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to this day dragon remains the only

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more detail on some of that research

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megan all right thanks andy and now i

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want to bring in joshua santora he's

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how's it looking so far

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getting worse unfortunately so we opened

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the show uh with a situation that had us

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what do ants plants a remote implant and

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supporting the validation of the faraday

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research facility a new commercial

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a team of researchers from houston

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methodist research institute is also

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team to its latest investigation that

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will aid in the development of a tunable

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claire can you tell everyone right now

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how old you are i'm eight years old that

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if they can still tunnel

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so they said hey can you pitch a science

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experiment how did that happen

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project and i just wanted to do it so

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bad so my mom printed out the papers

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i started doing the

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the instructions yeah and i know you

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love ants you have an ant farm at home

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so this is a perfect opportunity for you

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and i'm so happy for you thank you anna

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claire

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you're welcome thank you all right so

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anna claire's experiment was loaded onto

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dragon only 21 hours ago here's video of

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what we call that late load each person

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is carefully handling a time sensitive

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experiment that needed to be packed into

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dragon as close to launch as possible

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you see them there they're all in the

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appropriate gear to carefully move each

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of the experiments into there again this

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is a very um

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you know demanding uh

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operation that they need to do again to

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make sure that other science experiments

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are safe up there and dragon's design

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really helps us facilitate as much

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science as possible andy do you mind

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telling us about the extend the lab

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yeah sure thing

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the science and research being done in

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microgravity on the international space

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station has benefited our lives here on

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earth for decades now what's really cool

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is that our new cargo dragon vehicle is

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it's 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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one of the things we're trying to do is

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learn how to engineer plants to grow

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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 this isn't the only facility we

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have on the international space station

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to grow things we have an advanced plant

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habitat and currently we're growing

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chili 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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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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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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experiment to look at remote controlled

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delivery of medication so that would be

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an interesting technology demonstration

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as well and we'll be able to install

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and back here live at kennedy we

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actually just got some bad news i just

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heard from my producer that today's

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launch attempt has ended in a scrub um

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let's head on over to andy at spacex to

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yeah we did hear the launch director

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during that video package uh call hold

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like as joshua mentioned weather is not

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remain healthy we do have a backup

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opportunity tomorrow at 3 14 a.m eastern

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time so join us then i'm gonna hand it

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andy thank you so much so again you just

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time again tomorrow sunday august 29th 3

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spacex webcast at 2 45 a.m eastern time