[ Sound Effects ]
Hello. I'm Bob Zurawski.
I'm from the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas
and I work in the Space Station Program Office
for the ISS Vehicle Office,
and I specifically manage the carriers
and payload facilities capabilities
for the space station.
And these are a multitude of capabilities
on onboard space station that support research utilization
and technology of the space station, both internally
in the pressurized environment of space station,
as well as externally on the space station.
I actually got my start both with space station work
and in the microgravity sciences area here
at the Glenn Research Center as the project manager
for the Fluids and Combustion Facility, two of the research
for racks and there are over a dozen of those racks
on station right now that are supporting research on station,
and were built at Glenn.
I was the project manager for the FCF project,
the Fluids Integrated Rack that was developed here
at the Glenn Research Center has been operational onboard space
station since around 2009 or 2010.
It with its Light Microscopy Module,
is supporting a very wide range
of research onboard space station in fluids and extending
in other research disciplines as well at this point.
And also the Combustion Integrated Rack
that was developed at Glenn Research Center is supporting
some very exciting work in the field of combustion.
And we're actively developing new inserts for both
of these racks, as well as other capabilities
for the space station that will maximize what we think the usage
of the space station in the future for research
and technology purposes.
And a couple of things that are
in work right now include a second glovebox rack that's
capability to deployed to station
to specifically support life science research expansion
on space station.
We are planning an expansion of the current capabilities
of express racks from 8 racks of support on station right now,
to a total of 11 racks, we hope
by around the 2018, 2019 timeframe.
And externally on station we've seen a large expansion recently
of demand for external payloads on station.
And we're actively studying site expansions externally
on the space station to support more external payloads.
So a lot of exciting things happening right now.
The goal of all of this is course to maximize the use
of the space station for research
and technology purposes,
which we hope will yield many benefits both for life on Earth
and future exploration of space.