Endurance ascends.
An international crew destined for the International Space Station.
We are incredibly happy and proud to be on board the space station.
I’m very excited to work in this brilliant international team.
Very excited to be here.
It's so hard to explain the feeling of seeing
these guys here floating so easily.
We've been training together for a while
for this exact moment where we can continue the amazing work
that's done on the International Space Station.
Our mission is research and science.
We have experiments mounted on the outside of the station that are looking at
Earth, and each has different sensors measuring different things.
We study our own bodies and how they react to space,
to weightlessness, to radiation, to all the different things up here.
And that helps not only us go on further in future missions,
but also helps for medical research back home.
And then we study lots of different things as well, like different materials,
combustion, all sorts of things that help us understand things back on Earth.
Satoshi that cartridge looks perfect.
Thank you.
All right, copy thumbs up standby please Andy.
Looking forward to this first run.
So the BioCells of you have this morning where all 12 donors
and their goal is to try and figure out what the mechanism
is behind bone loss in space.
We knew the Earth was a special place, but when you come up here and see it
in the way that we do, it's just like instantaneous
evidence of all that.
I had a chance to study
some human brain cells to understand how brain cells age in space.
I'm also working on really cool experiments that study Earth's climate.
In particular taking pictures of giant lightning strikes that shoot upwards
from the top of thunderclouds out towards space.
We're performing these experiments that have been put together
by all these scientists around the world, which I think we all feel
very honored to get to do that.