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>> CASIS works under a cooperative agreement with NASA
to be the manager of the National Lab -
on the International Space Station.
So under that cooperation, we have this division
of responsibilities, is that there's research done
on the space station, which is for exploration and preparation
for the mission to Mars, and that's allocated
to the efforts done by NASA.
Conversely, for research that's focused on benefits to Earth,
both scientific and commercial, is managed by CASIS
at the ISS National Lab.
The Procter and Gamble experiment is an ideal example,
in my estimation, of what we're trying
to achieve doing important research, even though Procter
and Gamble is something that makes commercial products,
commodity products that you and I and many people
around the world use everyday.
There's a lot of discovery in science and engineering that has
to be done to make those products efficacious
and long-lasting.
So I think that what we can do in microgravity for Procter
and Gamble, if it moves the gravity vector, so there's a lot
of phenomena which are otherwise masked
in the gravity environment here on earth can be revealed
at higher fidelity and bring greater understanding
to make better products.