1 00:00:01,167 --> 00:00:03,370 >> CHOOSE YOUR LETTUCE LEAF! 2 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:04,571 [ CHUCKLING ] 3 00:00:04,571 --> 00:00:05,372 >> CHEERS. 4 00:00:05,372 --> 00:00:06,339 >> CHEERS! 5 00:00:06,339 --> 00:00:07,574 [ LAUGHING ] 6 00:00:07,574 --> 00:00:09,042 >> DO WE GET BALSAMIC? 7 00:00:13,012 --> 00:00:14,013 OH, THAT'S PRETTY GOOD! 8 00:00:14,013 --> 00:00:15,648 >> WOW! 9 00:00:15,648 --> 00:00:16,483 >> THAT'S A SALAD. 10 00:00:16,483 --> 00:00:17,584 >> I KNOW. 11 00:00:17,584 --> 00:00:19,252 >> IT'S A SALAD. 12 00:00:20,019 --> 00:00:22,155 >> JC, THAT WAS DELICIOUS. 13 00:00:26,893 --> 00:00:28,495 [ CHUCKLING ] 14 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:31,498 >> WELL, WHEN YOU HAVEN'T 15 00:00:31,498 --> 00:00:32,899 HAD A SALAD IN SIX MONTHS, 16 00:00:32,899 --> 00:00:34,134 IT'S DELICIOUS. 17 00:00:34,134 --> 00:00:35,468 [ CHUCKLING ] 18 00:00:36,436 --> 00:00:51,384 [ MUSIC ] 19 00:00:55,422 --> 00:00:56,256 >> I'M STILL STATIONED 20 00:00:56,256 --> 00:00:58,258 ON TWO FOR NANORACKS. 21 00:01:00,593 --> 00:01:01,394 >> WITH YOU ON TWO 22 00:01:01,394 --> 00:01:03,129 FOR NANORACKS. 23 00:01:04,764 --> 00:01:05,965 >> RIGHT, HOW'S YOUR VIEW? 24 00:01:05,965 --> 00:01:06,800 DO YOU WANT, UH, 25 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,368 ANYTHING DIFFERENT? 26 00:01:08,368 --> 00:01:09,402 >> VIEW LOOKS GREAT. 27 00:01:09,402 --> 00:01:11,638 >> VIEW LOOKS GREAT. 28 00:01:11,638 --> 00:01:12,672 >> NO, THE VIEW LOOKS GREAT, 29 00:01:12,672 --> 00:01:13,973 THANK YOU. 30 00:01:13,973 --> 00:01:14,974 >> NOW THAT THE EXPERIMENT 31 00:01:14,974 --> 00:01:16,476 IS ABOARD THE SPACE STATION, 32 00:01:16,476 --> 00:01:17,877 IT'S TIME FOR THE ASTRONAUTS 33 00:01:17,877 --> 00:01:19,279 TO GET TO WORK. 34 00:01:19,279 --> 00:01:20,680 ELAINE AND PARASTOO ARE BACK 35 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:21,714 IN VIRGINIA, 36 00:01:21,714 --> 00:01:22,715 AND THE NANORACKS TEAM 37 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:23,850 IS BACK IN TEXAS 38 00:01:23,850 --> 00:01:24,851 WHERE THEY WILL PERFORM 39 00:01:24,851 --> 00:01:26,085 A GROUND-CONTROL VERSION 40 00:01:26,085 --> 00:01:27,020 OF THE EXPERIMENT 41 00:01:27,020 --> 00:01:28,388 BEING CONDUCTED BY THE CREW 42 00:01:28,388 --> 00:01:29,856 IN SPACE. 43 00:01:29,856 --> 00:01:30,857 >> THE CREW MEMBERS ARE USING 44 00:01:30,857 --> 00:01:31,925 THE NANORACKS PLATE READER 45 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:33,560 TO READ, UH, THE PLATES. 46 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,461 THEY'RE ANALYZING WHAT'S IN 47 00:01:34,461 --> 00:01:35,662 THE PLATE AND THE MIGRATION 48 00:01:35,662 --> 00:01:36,863 OF FLUIDS BETWEEN 49 00:01:36,863 --> 00:01:37,730 THE TWO CHAMBERS 50 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:38,565 THAT ARE ON THE PLATES. 51 00:01:38,565 --> 00:01:39,532 AND SO WE HAVE OUR 52 00:01:39,532 --> 00:01:41,201 GROUND, UH, SAMPLES HERE. 53 00:01:41,201 --> 00:01:42,235 THESE ARE IDENTICAL 54 00:01:42,235 --> 00:01:43,203 TO THE ONES THAT ARE ON 55 00:01:43,203 --> 00:01:44,604 THE SPACE STATION. 56 00:01:44,604 --> 00:01:45,638 AND WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS 57 00:01:45,638 --> 00:01:47,073 AS THE CREW MEMBER INSERTS 58 00:01:47,073 --> 00:01:48,675 THE PLATES INTO THE PLATE READER 59 00:01:48,675 --> 00:01:50,276 ON THE SPACE STATION, WE'RE ALSO 60 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:51,211 GONNA INSERT THE PLATE 61 00:01:51,211 --> 00:01:52,612 ONTO THE GROUND UNIT 62 00:01:52,612 --> 00:01:53,880 WE HAVE BEHIND ME. 63 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:55,014 AND THAT'S JUST TO CONFIRM 64 00:01:55,014 --> 00:01:56,182 THAT WHAT WE'RE SEEING 65 00:01:56,182 --> 00:01:57,083 ANY EFFECTS THAT WE DO 66 00:01:57,083 --> 00:01:58,485 END UP SEEING IS EFFECTIVE 67 00:01:58,485 --> 00:02:00,019 IN THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT, 68 00:02:00,019 --> 00:02:02,255 UM, COMPARED TO THE GROUND UNIT. 69 00:02:02,255 --> 00:02:03,022 IN SUMMARY, WHAT 70 00:02:03,022 --> 00:02:04,023 THE PLATE READER DOES IS-- 71 00:02:04,023 --> 00:02:05,658 IT'S CALLED A BIG FANCY WORD, 72 00:02:05,658 --> 00:02:07,160 IS A SPECTROPHOTOMETER. 73 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,228 AND IT'S GOT A BIG LAMP IN IT 74 00:02:08,228 --> 00:02:09,596 THAT, UH, SHINES WHITE LIGHT. 75 00:02:09,596 --> 00:02:10,530 AND THEN IT'S GOT A PRISM 76 00:02:10,530 --> 00:02:11,998 OR A GRATING. 77 00:02:11,998 --> 00:02:13,299 AND THE WHITE LIGHT SHINES 78 00:02:13,299 --> 00:02:14,200 ON THE GRATING. 79 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,468 AND THEN IT MOVES TO 80 00:02:15,468 --> 00:02:16,636 ORIENTATE WHICH-- 81 00:02:16,636 --> 00:02:17,604 TO-TO KIND OF SEPARATE 82 00:02:17,604 --> 00:02:18,905 THE LIGHT INTO A WAVELENGTH. 83 00:02:18,905 --> 00:02:19,939 AND YOU GET TO SELECT 84 00:02:19,939 --> 00:02:20,807 WHICH WAVELENGTH YOU WANT 85 00:02:20,807 --> 00:02:21,941 TO SHINE THROUGH YOUR SAMPLES. 86 00:02:21,941 --> 00:02:23,643 WE HAVE SIX PLATES. 87 00:02:23,643 --> 00:02:24,744 EACH PLATE TAKES ABOUT 88 00:02:24,744 --> 00:02:25,879 FOUR MINUTES-- 89 00:02:25,879 --> 00:02:27,313 SO IT'S ABOUT 30 MINUTES EACH. 90 00:02:27,313 --> 00:02:28,248 AND EVERY TIME IN BETWEEN, 91 00:02:28,248 --> 00:02:29,115 WE'LL BE LISTENING FOR 92 00:02:29,115 --> 00:02:29,983 THE CREW MEMBER TO SAY THAT 93 00:02:29,983 --> 00:02:31,084 THEY INSERTED THE PLATE. 94 00:02:31,084 --> 00:02:31,885 UH, THEN WE'LL HIT 95 00:02:31,885 --> 00:02:33,152 THE COMMAND HERE. 96 00:02:33,152 --> 00:02:34,087 ONCE THE RUN IS DONE, 97 00:02:34,087 --> 00:02:34,854 THE CREWMEMBER WILL COME OVER 98 00:02:34,854 --> 00:02:35,622 AND TAKE THE PLATE OUT, 99 00:02:35,622 --> 00:02:36,289 PUT THE NEW PLATE IN 100 00:02:36,289 --> 00:02:37,524 AND IT'LL REPEAT FOR, 101 00:02:37,524 --> 00:02:39,526 UH, FIVE MORE TIMES. 102 00:02:40,693 --> 00:02:41,861 >> STILL STATION ON THREE, 103 00:02:41,861 --> 00:02:43,796 PLATE 1003 IS IN THE TRAY. 104 00:02:45,365 --> 00:02:46,165 >> OH, YEAH. 105 00:02:46,165 --> 00:02:47,367 IT'S READING THE PLATE. 106 00:02:47,367 --> 00:02:48,668 IT'S GOT A LITTLE-- 107 00:02:48,668 --> 00:02:50,303 THE PLATE SITS IN THERE. 108 00:02:50,303 --> 00:02:51,304 MOVES THE PLATE THIS WAY 109 00:02:51,304 --> 00:02:52,171 AND THEN THE READ HEAD 110 00:02:52,171 --> 00:02:53,006 MOVES THIS WAY. 111 00:02:53,006 --> 00:02:53,706 AND THE LITTLE 112 00:02:53,706 --> 00:02:54,474 "BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP" 113 00:02:54,474 --> 00:02:55,275 YOU HEAR, THAT'S KIND OF 114 00:02:55,275 --> 00:02:56,075 THE LITTLE LAMP THAT'S IN THERE. 115 00:02:56,075 --> 00:02:57,610 THAT TURNS THE LAMP ON. 116 00:02:57,610 --> 00:02:59,078 SO IT MAKES THAT LITTLE NOISE. 117 00:02:59,078 --> 00:03:00,713 SOUNDS LIKE BAD TECHNO MUSIC. 118 00:03:00,713 --> 00:03:02,549 [ MACHINE BEEPING ] 119 00:03:02,549 --> 00:03:03,783 >> MY CREW MATE ACTUALLY 120 00:03:03,783 --> 00:03:04,684 WAS THE FIRST ONE TO START 121 00:03:04,684 --> 00:03:05,785 THIS EXPERIMENT. 122 00:03:05,785 --> 00:03:06,986 AND I TOOK OVER FOR HIM 123 00:03:06,986 --> 00:03:08,187 AND SAID, "HEY, WHAT-- 124 00:03:08,187 --> 00:03:09,022 "WHAT EXPERIMENT IS THIS? 125 00:03:09,022 --> 00:03:09,923 "WHAT ARE WE DOING?" 126 00:03:09,923 --> 00:03:11,124 AND HE LOOKS AT ME AND HE SAYS, 127 00:03:11,124 --> 00:03:12,525 "I'M NOT SURE." 128 00:03:12,525 --> 00:03:14,227 SO WE CALLED DOWN, UM, TO 129 00:03:14,227 --> 00:03:15,562 THE GROUND, TO MISSION CONTROL. 130 00:03:15,562 --> 00:03:16,429 >> AND I KNOW THAT PART 131 00:03:16,429 --> 00:03:17,530 OF THIS IS LOOKING AT A GEL 132 00:03:17,530 --> 00:03:19,766 THAT CAN RELEASE THE ANTIBIOTICS 133 00:03:19,766 --> 00:03:21,034 KIND OF SLOW RELEASE 134 00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:23,036 TO A WOUND SITE. 135 00:03:23,036 --> 00:03:24,170 UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW 136 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:25,471 WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PLATE 137 00:03:25,471 --> 00:03:26,639 IN THE NANORACKS READER 138 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:27,774 THIS MORNING AND THEN KIND OF 139 00:03:27,774 --> 00:03:29,375 WHAT'S GOING ON THIS AFTERNOON. 140 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:30,476 >> UM, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 141 00:03:30,476 --> 00:03:31,878 IS HOW THE DRUG MIGRATES 142 00:03:31,878 --> 00:03:33,580 TO THE GEL OVER TIME. 143 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:34,747 WHICH IS WHY WE'RE SCANNING 144 00:03:34,747 --> 00:03:35,982 THE PLATES TWO TIMES A DAY 145 00:03:35,982 --> 00:03:38,184 FOR THIS TWO WEEK RUN. 146 00:03:38,184 --> 00:03:40,153 >> AH, I LIKE THAT ANSWER. 147 00:03:40,153 --> 00:03:41,054 THAT'S VERY COOL. 148 00:03:41,054 --> 00:03:43,656 THANK YOU FOR FINDING THAT OUT! 149 00:03:43,656 --> 00:03:45,291 >> NO PROB. 150 00:03:46,559 --> 00:03:48,194 >> SO THIS IS 15 DAYS. 151 00:03:48,194 --> 00:03:49,362 UH, IT'S TWICE A DAY 152 00:03:49,362 --> 00:03:50,363 AND THEY'RE TYPICALLY 153 00:03:50,363 --> 00:03:51,331 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, 154 00:03:51,331 --> 00:03:52,632 WHICH IS THE MORNING FOR 155 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:54,100 THE CREW ON SPACE STATION. 156 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:55,234 AND THEN USUALLY SOME TIME 157 00:03:55,234 --> 00:03:56,836 IN THE LATE MORNING, 158 00:03:56,836 --> 00:03:58,071 EARLY AFTERNOON HERE. 159 00:03:58,071 --> 00:03:58,871 BUT KYLE'S BEEN RUNNING 160 00:03:58,871 --> 00:03:59,672 THE SHOW. 161 00:03:59,672 --> 00:04:00,440 HE'S BEEN GETTING UP 162 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:01,741 EVERY SIX HOURS, EIGHT HOURS, 163 00:04:01,741 --> 00:04:02,976 SEVEN HOURS TO DO THIS. 164 00:04:02,976 --> 00:04:03,977 IT'S KIND OF FUN IN A WAY. 165 00:04:03,977 --> 00:04:04,944 I GET TO PLAY ASTRONAUT 166 00:04:04,944 --> 00:04:05,745 ON THE GROUND, 167 00:04:05,745 --> 00:04:08,247 SO THAT'S ALWAYS FUN. 168 00:04:08,247 --> 00:04:09,616 >> AFTER 15 DAYS OF RUNNING 169 00:04:09,616 --> 00:04:11,317 THE EXPERIMENT, THE RESEARCHERS 170 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:12,919 HAVE A LOT OF VALUABLE DATA 171 00:04:12,919 --> 00:04:13,953 ABOUT HOW HYDROGELS 172 00:04:13,953 --> 00:04:15,655 BEHAVE IN MICROGRAVITY. 173 00:04:15,655 --> 00:04:16,756 TO LEARN EVEN MORE, 174 00:04:16,756 --> 00:04:17,924 THE SAMPLES WILL COME BACK 175 00:04:17,924 --> 00:04:20,193 TO EARTH FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS. 176 00:04:20,193 --> 00:04:21,361 FOR THE LAST LEG OF 177 00:04:21,361 --> 00:04:22,662 THEIR JOURNEY, THE SAMPLES 178 00:04:22,662 --> 00:04:23,763 WILL RETURN TO EARTH 179 00:04:23,763 --> 00:04:25,231 IN THE SAME DRAGON CAPSULE 180 00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:26,232 THAT GAVE THEM A RIDE 181 00:04:26,232 --> 00:04:28,067 TO MICROGRAVITY. 182 00:04:28,067 --> 00:04:29,836 AFTER DRAGON SPLASHES DOWN 183 00:04:29,836 --> 00:04:31,170 IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, 184 00:04:31,170 --> 00:04:32,472 IT'S TAKEN TO THE PORT OF 185 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:33,740 LONG BEACH, WHERE NASA 186 00:04:33,740 --> 00:04:34,907 WILL BE READY TO RETRIEVE 187 00:04:34,907 --> 00:04:37,210 THE PRECIOUS CARGO. 188 00:04:37,210 --> 00:04:38,478 >> SPLASHDOWN FOR DRAGON WAS 189 00:04:38,478 --> 00:04:40,780 ON, UH, SUNDAY I BELIEVE? 190 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:43,383 AND SO NASA HAS A GROUP 191 00:04:43,383 --> 00:04:44,417 CALLED COLD STOWAGE 192 00:04:44,417 --> 00:04:45,852 AND, UH, CARGO MANIFEST. 193 00:04:45,852 --> 00:04:47,220 AND THEY GO OUT AND PICK UP 194 00:04:47,220 --> 00:04:48,888 THE PAYLOADS FROM DRAGON. 195 00:04:48,888 --> 00:04:50,189 AND THEN THEY DISTRIBUTE IT 196 00:04:50,189 --> 00:04:52,592 TO PEOPLE AT LA OR WHOEVER 197 00:04:52,592 --> 00:04:53,593 NEEDS THEM THERE, 198 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:54,594 AND THEN THEY BRING THEM ALSO 199 00:04:54,594 --> 00:04:55,928 HERE TO JOHNSON SPACE CENTER. 200 00:04:55,928 --> 00:04:58,064 UM, AND SO NOW I'M IN OUT FRONT 201 00:04:58,064 --> 00:04:59,499 OF THE COLD STOW OFFICE. 202 00:04:59,499 --> 00:05:00,633 AND I JUST PICKED UP, 203 00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:01,901 UH, MODEL 74, WHICH IS 204 00:05:01,901 --> 00:05:03,369 OUR TYMPANOGEN PROJECT. 205 00:05:03,369 --> 00:05:04,370 AND THEY HAND IT TO ME, 206 00:05:04,370 --> 00:05:05,638 AND I PUT IT IN MY COOLER. 207 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:06,773 AND THEN I DRIVE IT OVER 208 00:05:06,773 --> 00:05:08,174 TO, UH, OUR OFFICE 209 00:05:08,174 --> 00:05:09,242 WHERE IT'S GONNA SIT 210 00:05:09,242 --> 00:05:10,309 UNTIL WE FLY UP TO, 211 00:05:10,309 --> 00:05:11,911 UH, THE TYMPANOGEN OFFICE 212 00:05:11,911 --> 00:05:13,012 IN, UH, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 213 00:05:13,012 --> 00:05:14,414 TO, UH, DO THE FINAL PHASE 214 00:05:14,414 --> 00:05:15,882 OF THE EXPERIMENT, 215 00:05:15,882 --> 00:05:16,849 UH, WHICH IS REMOVING 216 00:05:16,849 --> 00:05:18,084 THE SAMPLES OUT OF THE-- 217 00:05:18,084 --> 00:05:19,652 THE REACTOR MICROPLATES. 218 00:05:19,652 --> 00:05:20,853 WE'RE REALLY PROUD TO 219 00:05:20,853 --> 00:05:22,522 TAKE PART IN THIS REALLY, UH, 220 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:24,357 REALLY INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. 221 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:29,362 >> WHEN WE FIRST GOT 222 00:05:29,362 --> 00:05:30,163 OUR GELS BACK, 223 00:05:30,163 --> 00:05:30,930 IT WAS ALREADY EXCITING 224 00:05:30,930 --> 00:05:31,564 BECAUSE SPACE NEVER LOSES 225 00:05:31,564 --> 00:05:32,432 ITS COOL, AND SO WE 226 00:05:32,432 --> 00:05:33,166 HAD THESE PLATES 227 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:33,866 AND WERE LIKE, "OH MY GOD! 228 00:05:33,866 --> 00:05:34,600 "THESE ARE WHAT 229 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,601 "THE ASTRONAUTS TOUCHED!" 230 00:05:35,601 --> 00:05:36,736 AND SO WE OPENED 'EM, 231 00:05:36,736 --> 00:05:37,804 AND THEY'VE BEEN TO 232 00:05:37,804 --> 00:05:38,805 SPACE AND BACK. 233 00:05:38,805 --> 00:05:40,640 AND NOW THEY'RE IN OUR LAB.