HI, EVERYONE.
WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
I'M AKI HOSHIDE.
AND WE'RE HERE DURING EXPEDITION 65.
I'M MEGAN MACARTHUR, ONE OF THE FLIGHT ENGINEERS FOR THE MISSION.
AND YOU PROBABLY KNOW WE HAVE A CARGO MISSION COMING UP REAL SOON,
SPACEX 22, AND I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE LIKE.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO AFFECT OUR PACE AND EVERYTHING
THAT WE'VE GOT GOING ON.
AKI, YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE YOU CAPTURED ACTUALLY THE FIRST
CARGO RESUPPLY MISSION FROM DRAGON ABOUT NINE YEARS AGO.
SO TELL ME WHAT WAS THAT LIKE?
YEAH.
NINE YEARS AGO, THAT'S A LONG, LONG TIME AGO.
WELL, THAT WAS MY FIRST, UH, TIME TO ACTUALLY CAPTURE A CARGO
VEHICLE WITH A ROBOTIC ARM.
AND SO IT WAS A HORRIFYING TWO MINUTES, YOU KNOW, HOLDING MY
BREATH AND TRYING TO CAPTURE IT WITHOUT UH, MAKING ANY MISTAKES.
THIS CARGO DRAGON WILL BE ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
SO WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS ONE?
THIS TIME, IT'S JUST GOING TO DOCK.
SO WITHOUT THE HELP OF THE ROBOTIC ARM, IT'S GOING TO
AUTOMATICALLY DOCK TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.
AND OF COURSE IT WILL BE SIMILAR TO OUR CREW
VEHICLE THAT WE CAME UP IN.
SO EVERYTHING SHOULD LOOK PRETTY MUCH THE SAME.
JUST THERE WON'T BE PEOPLE THERE'LL BE A, THERE'LL BE CARGO
IN A LOT OF SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS.
SOME OF THE SCIENCE SAMPLES WILL ARRIVE IN POWERED PAYLOAD LOCKERS
SO THEY CAN BE FROZEN TEMPERATURES, BUT SOME OF THE SAMPLES WILL
ARRIVE IN THIS COOLER TYPE OF BAG, WHICH IS CALLED A DOUBLE COLD BAG.
IT'S A SUPER INSULATED BAG.
AND WE PUT ICE BRICKS IN THERE ALONG WITH THE SAMPLES TO KEEP
THEM AT THE RIGHT TEMPERATURE.
SO I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A STOWAWAY.
THESE ARE THE ICE BRICKS AND THEY CAN MAINTAIN A
TEMPERATURE, UM, BETWEEN MINUS 32 AND PLUS 37 CELSIUS.
THEY'RE, UH, THEY'RE JUST ROOM TEMPERATURE RIGHT NOW, OR I
WOULDN'T BE HOLDING THEM WITH BARE HANDS, BUT YOU CAN SEE, WE WOULD
FILL THAT UP WITH THE, UM, ICE BRICKS, UH, AS WELL AS THE SAMPLES,
WE ALSO SEND SAMPLES HOME THIS WAY.
UM, AND THEY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME THAT THEY
WILL STAY AT TEMPERATURE BEFORE THEY'RE RECOVERED
BY THE TEAM ON THE GROUND.
YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE TARDIGRADES.
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE WATER BEARS, SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
THERE ARE LITTLE MICROSCOPIC CREATURES THAT CAN SURVIVE
IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS.
AND THE, UM, THE CELL SCIENCE-4 EXPERIMENT IS LOOKING AT,
UM, HOW, LIKE WHAT CAN WE SEE BY LOOKING AT THEIR GENES?
HOW DID THEY SURVIVE AND ADAPT TO EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS?
AND THEN THE HOPE IS THAT THAT INFORMATION CAN BE USED TO, UM, TO
LOOK AT STRESS FACTORS IN HUMANS WHEN, WHEN WE'RE LIVING IN SPACE.
ANOTHER ONE I THINK IS REALLY EXCITING, UM, THAT
HAS BENEFITS BOTH FOR US IN SPACE, BUT ALSO ON EARTH AS
A NEW ULTRASOUND EXPERIMENT.
THE BUTTERFLY ULTRASOUND, AND IT'S LOOKING AT PORTABLE ULTRASOUND
TECHNOLOGY WITH MOBILE TECH, SOME REALLY EXCITING STUFF THAT
KIND OF COVERS A BIG SPECTRUM.
YEAH.