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Right as we were coming in for docking,
we could see the space station

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kind of off in the distance,
but super bright with the solar arrays.

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It's just absolutely gorgeous.

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So we're super excited to be here
and to see more of those amazing views.

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Most of the time we're doing science
performing experiments.

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And why is it interesting to do
experiments up here?

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You might wonder, you know,
we could do experiments on the ground.

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We have a bunch of laboratories
around the world

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in all scientific disciplines.

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But the one thing that we have up here

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that those labs do not have
is microgravity.

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And that brings to the forefront
a number of phenomena,

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both in the life science,
like living organisms, like humans,

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plants, microorganisms,
animals, tissues, cells, all of that,

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as well as in the physical world,
in fluids and combustion in materials.

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There's a bunch of things that either
do not happen on the ground

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or on the ground
they're masked by the effects of gravity.

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So up here because we are on orbit,
we can like switch off the effects

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of gravity and then

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all of that comes to the forefront
and we can observe and study it.

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We touch all forms of science from,
you know, crystal growth and metallurgy

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to different life sciences,
and there's obviously thousands

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and thousands of people
that make that possible for us.

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And good morning Shankini
this is Farmer with you on three.

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How are you doing today?

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Pretty good we're excited to get

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started on Immunosenescence.

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I love being a part of the plant science.

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We're actually growing plants
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using soil
we are using hydroponics and aeroponics.

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And so we're growing carrots
and onions and leafy greens

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and these are just really important
for long duration space exploration

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to have an ability to be able
to grow food, fresh food for consumption

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for these long duration missions.

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And Sam, I'm back with you.

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For this module, we can see we've got
some pretty large radishes growing there.

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There
are several earth science experiments,

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one of which is looking at dust
in the atmosphere and helping to refine

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our understanding of the climate
and how that's changing.

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I am a geologist

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and so to be able to see places
that I have done

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field work, to be able to see those
from the orbital perspective

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that we have here on the ISS
is just absolutely amazing.

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Earth is gorgeous.

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We're up in the Canadian plains now
and what's what's immediately obvious

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once we get up here
is just the age difference in the surface.

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Farmer, Astrobee back with you.

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This is really exciting.

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This is really cool to see.

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It's neat to see them working together.

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I'm getting to study
some of the things that I got to study

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when I was in grad school.

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Changes in the cardiovascular system,
countermeasures to keep astronauts

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healthy.

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And by studying them up here,
by studying astronauts as subjects,

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we can gain insights
into some of those changes

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and perhaps come up with solutions,
with treatments

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for folks that are suffering
those problems on the ground.

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The motto of off the Earth for the Earth
is truly a reality up here.