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>>> Good morning and welcome to
mission control Houston.
You are LOOKING AT the
international space station
flight control room where the
specialists monitoring the
systems are working with a crew
of just six ASTRONAUTs and
cosMONoughts who got expidition
61 under way early Thursday.
Luca from Italy is the new
station commander and he and his
crew mate, preparing for battery
replaceMENT space walks that are
SCHEDULED to begin Sunday
morning.
>> Welcome to space to ground.
A few crew members said GOODBYE,
preparations for a serious space
walk make for another busy week
ON THE international space
station.
Through crew members closed the
hatch ON THE soyuz space station
and made the trip back to earth.
Nick hague and Alexi ended their
time on station Thursday.
They completed a 203 day mission
that spans 3248 orbits of earth
or 80.8 million miles.
Their undocking Marxs the
beginning of exdition 61.
Luca PARMaTAno will lead.
and things kick into high gear
for the crew this Sunday with
the first OF time complex space
walks scheduled in October.
The space walkers will CONTINUE
THE ON-GOING work to upgrade the
large external battery ON THE
station replacing old batteries
with new litheium ion batteries.
The swap will be unique from
previous space walks that use
extensive robotIBs to do the
heavy lifting.
They are located ON THE far end
of the station's back bone and
are out of range for the arm.
That means the ASTRONAUTs will
have to carry the 400-plus
battery pound PACIFIC NORTHWEST
and forth by hand.
It is expected to last six hours
with coverage on NASA TV start
AT 6:30:00 a.m. eastern.
Christina koch still HAD time
for science.
She kept a biomolecule
extraction ask sequencing
technology investigate on task
with sample transfers and
culture media exchanges.
It allows researchers to explore
the molecular world.
It seeks to ADVANCE sequences in
space in three ways.
Identifying microbes that cannot
be detected with traditional
methods, assessing mutations and
direct Rna sequencing.
It helps protect humans during
future EXPLORATIONs and monitor
the presence of microbes in
remote locations on earth.
Keep sending in questions using
# ask NASA and we'll see you
next week.
>> We'll have MORE DETAILS ON
THE five battery replaceMENT
space walks AT a briefing on
NASA TV and ON-LINE AT
NASA.goff.
Our live coverage goes on air AT
5:30 Houston time this Sunday
morning.
The second space walk is
targeted for next Friday,
October 11.
And one MORE schedule note this
AFTERNOON AT 3:00 Houston time,
tune in for a video file with
scenes from nick hague's return
from Houston earlier today.
THERE is a long LIST of tasks
that need to be completeED TO
get a crew ready for space walk.
The preparations begin before
the crew members even launch to
space.
In this demonstration video,
Ricky A RPBed on SHARES SOME
training ASTRONAUTs get on the
ground to be prepared to walk in
space.
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>> Welcome into quest air lock
ON THE international space
station.
Today WE ARE GOING to talk about
one of my favorite topics, extra
vehicular activity or eva.
It is one of the most amazing
SP RPBSs of my life and one OF
the most complicated and
dangerous things we do during
human space flight.
There is A LOT OF equipMENT to
maintain.
If you think it sounds
complicated you SHOULD see all
of it in action.
Let's start with training and
how we get ready for a space
walk.
>> It presents many hazards.
If we are GOING to go outside
the safety of the iss we have to
be prepared and safety is the
utmost priority.
We spend a lot of time in the
classroom just like you are now,
working with the hardware we'll
be using and the specific parts
of the space station we'll work
on and we spend A LOT OF time
training in NASA's giant pool
called the neutral buoyancy lab.
Since it's impossible to
simulate micro gravity on earth
the next best option is water,
6.2 million-gallons of it.
It is 202 feet in length and a
200 feet in width.
A full-scale model which we need
to do our task.
We get suited up so we are newt
realliy buoyant in the water so
we don't sink to the bottom or
float to the surface.
It is a great way to simulate
the gravity we will experience.
We do several rehearsals of eva
before we launch to prepare for
anomalies that could occur.
We practice five hours for every
one hour of space walk.
We are prepareD TO conduct the
evas in orbit.
The preparation continues in
orbit.
First we must perform
a pre-brief protocol, displace
the nitrogen in our tissues and
prevent decompression sickness.
We breathe 100% pure OXYGEN and
do light exercise to purge the
nitrogen from our bodies.
During pre-brief we dawn the
space suit.
It is a spacecraft shaped like
a human.
There is a red leg on one
ASTRONAUT and not the other so
the ground can tell who is who.
To ensure safety AT all times we
are aware of safety tethers and
where we are in relation to our
space walking buddy.
>> Hey buddy.
>> There is a crew member on the
INSIDE of the air lock watching
and communicating with us as the
eva progresses.
We are also prepared for sef ram
corn TINGencys SHOULD they
occur.
We are trained on the use of
a jet back in the case of
emergency rescue.
It is a simplified aid for eva
rescueLET the view during an eva
is magnificent.
It's beautiful and also
EXTREMEly dangerous.
Our MONTHs of preparation and
the people working ON THE ground
AROUND the CLOCKWISE making --
clock make sure we are as safe
as possible.
We repair mission critical
hardware, investigate
malfunction, install new
hardware and the view?
Unbelievable.
See you next time.
>> There was another bit of
milestone news on orbit this
week.
Flight ENGINEER Chrisinea koch
complete TWOD hundred days in
space in a schedule to last
until next February.
She said the concentration and
control in MOUNTAIN climbing
helped her prepare to be an
ASTRONAUT and make the climb for
her first mission to the
international space station.
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>> I first got involved in rock
climbing in college.
I went to north Carolina state
university and it offered rock
climbing as a pe class.
It sounded exciting and a way to
get outside and have an
ADVENTURE.
When I first got started I
likessed MOISTURE the physical
challenge.
That's what it was about.
As I advanced in the hobby and
got MORE technical, I found I
really liked other ASPECTs of it
like the equipMENT and gear and
physicses of the system you have
to use and the partnership
ASPECT of it.
It's really like a team.
When you get into some of the
higher levels of climbing and
different types of MORE
technical climbing you really
rely on your partner.
>> We train for space walks in
a giant pool called the neutral
buoyancy lab.
It's a pool large ENOUGH to fit
a full-scale mockup of the
international space station.
We simulate everything like we
would on a real eva including
egressing out of the air lock,
safety tethers and local tethers
you work performing the job.
All of that is very similar to
the concept of rocking climbing.
During my ASTRONAUT interview,
the most memorable question I
HAD from the interview committee
came from Peggy whitson who is
a famous ASTRONAUT for longest
time in space and is a hero of
mine.
She looked AT me and said when
you rock climb, have you ever
been scared?
I felt like she was seeing right
to my soul when she asked that
question.
I feel like THE answer to that
question, ABSOLUTELY, I have
been scared.
I found the fact that turning
that fear into focus is so
important.
I think that's what she was
drawing on when she asked that
question.
That was a pretty PROfound
moment in my selection process.
I'm christina koch and I'm an
ASTRONAUT.
>> One priority of the
international space station
science mission is to learn as
much as possible about how
living in microgravity impacks
the human body.
Shortly before she came home in
June, ANNE Mcclain and her crew
mates completed the data
gathering.
It examines an ASTRONAUT's
exhaled breath for signs of
inflammation.
It is rolled into the design of
future space ships to make them
safer for their human crew
members.
>> THE international space
station is a national orbiting
LABORATORY.
Every day we answer big
questions about earth and space
and where we came from and about
where we are GOING.
One category are human research
experiments on our human body
and how we react in micro
gravity.
One of the recent once is AIRWAY
monitoring.
This is LOOKING AT AIRWAY
inflammation up in space.
When we are breathing the air
the small particles in the air
don't fall to the ground like
dust.
We tend to inhale MORE fine
particles than we would on
earth.
And so LOOKING AT our response,
our body's response to that, by
measuring nitric oxide
exhalation and understanding how
clean does our air need to be?
How does our body react to the
air.
Whether we talk about GOING back
to the moon, a lot of people are
aware moon dust is a very fine
particle like powdered SUGAR
fine particle.
And we are breathing that for
MONTHs on end if we are doing
extended stays ON THE lunar
surface.
You know, we need to understand
how that AFFECTs the human body.
>> Another one of the hazards
confronts future crewS WHO will
explore beyond low earth orbit
is the radiation those men and
women will encounter ON THE long
trip.
NASA's human research project is
LOOKING into ways to shield
ASTRONAUTs from cosmic radiation
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>> Just as early explorer his to
endure weather as they traveled
to new land, ASTRONAUTs OUTSIDE
of earth's magnetic field will
have to endure space weather.
It includes GAlack tick cosmic
rays and super nova and SOLAR
storms that include SOLAR
particle events.
As ASTRONAUTs are traveling to
mars they will endure the space
weather that is HARLful to the
body in a couple of ways.
There is an inflight risk from
SOLAR storms and that is acute
radiation sickness that would
have to be dealt with in real
time.
And long-term late AEFBTs like
cancer and cardiovascular
disease and CENTRAL nervous
system effects.
Those are PABL late term be
effects that would come into
play after the MISSION.
Just like early explorers,
NASA's mission is to bring all
ASTRONAUTs home safely.
To do that we are investing in
strategies that mitigate expose
tower all forms of space
weather.
Habitat design and vehicle
OPTization to reduce risk from
SOLAR storming and material
design and other vehicle
optimization strategies to
reduce the risk from long-term
exposure to galactic cosmic
rays.
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>> The people in the human
research program are one example
of a kind of heros who work AT
NASA, Along with the ASTRONAUTS
WHO fly in space, there are
thousands of other people hard
AT work solving the challenges
facing the space missions of
today and those of tomorrow.
>> You want to go to mars?
What does it take to be a NASA
hero?
Meet the heros behind the sceneS
WHO make deep space EXPLORATION
possible.
>> People often think of
ASTRONAUTs as heros, and they
are.
They will be the first ones to
tell you there are many other
people who make space missions
successful.
On either there is ground
support.
The folks responsible for launch
and land.
Heros work in mission control
and keep a watchful eye ON THE
ASTRONAUT and spacecraft 24-7.
Heros design, test, build and
fly the rockets and spacecraft
that take ASTRONAUTs off our
planet.
And there are HEROES who make
space suit, habitat and
EQUIPMENT to move on mars.
It is possible because of the
crews ON THE ground and beHIND
the sceneS WHO build the
technology and systems who are
needed.
Will you be a NASA hero?
For MORE information, visit this
NASA WEBSITE:
>> Missions like GOING back TO
THE moon by 2024 and out into
the SOLAR system to mars face
ISSUEs with providing the human
crews with all the materials
they will need to do their jobs.
Biomining could offer a way for
crews to obtain needed materials
right on other planetary bodies.
But microbes and rocks interact
differently outside of earth's
gravity than here.
That might AFFECT the out put
from extra terrestrial work.
There they are being looing AT
how microbes grow and AFFECT
rocks in simulated mart
KWRA Lian gravity.
>> The international space
station will host some of the
smallest miners in the universe,
microbes.
Microbes growing ON THE surface
of rocks can gradually break
them down and extract useful
minerals and metals.
This is a process called
biomining.
As we explore space, we are
seeking to use biomining to turn
rock into soil for growing
plants and food.
We first need to test it in
space.
ON THE space station,
bioreactors will be placed
INSIDE a centrifuge where it
will grow on rocks in simulated
martian gravity.
Investigators will examine how
three types of microbes behave
within pieces of BAsalt and see
how well they extract ELEMENTs
from the rock.
The findings will be compareED
TO GROUND-based results.
We hope to gain insights into
how microbes interact with rocks
in hydro gravity and how to use
them in EXPLORATION of deep
space.
>> The range of science research
being done on the international
space station is remarkable.
And the station program science
office is hoping you can help
expand that range.
If you have a high THOGT sis to
test that requires ELIMINATING
gravity as a SRARable, have we
got a research platform for you.
>> Hi.
Did you know there is a research
LABORATORY in space, the
international space station.
It's a scientif EUBGS
steppingstone ENABELING us to
explore farther into space while
improving life on earth.
The space station provides
a UNIQUE environment of
microgravity, extreme CONditions
and an OBSERVATION platform that
enables researchers from all
over the world to test theories
and technologies off the earth
and in an extreme environment
unlike any other.
We welcome you to join us on
station.
You don't have to be a rocket
SCIENTIST or part of NASA to
gain access to this unique
LABORATORY.
Don't know much about space
flight in that's okay.
We are here to help people like
you every day.
You might be curious about
funding, capable, access or
MAYBE you just don't know where
to start.
Give us a call or e-mail.
We'll ask you basis questions
about your objectives that will
help point you to the right
people who could make your
experiment or testing your
technology possible in space.
Visit:
So welcome to the international
space station.
You will soon be part of
a worldwide group of researchers
making discovers on this amazing
orbiting vehicle for the benefit
of our planet and future
EXPLORATION beyond.
>> The LABORATORies ON THE
international space station are
designed to FAtillitate si
knowtific research that can't be
done on earth.
The fact it is 250-mile above
earth makes it ideal for
scientific obserbivations of the
earth over a period of time.
One system has been doing that
for almost five years now.
>> A new angle on global wind
measureMENTs presented by
science AT NASA.
Summer can bring a whirlwind of
activity.
Hurricane season causes PROTEPBL
havoc on land with threats of
forceful winds and terrential
wind fall.
A set of eyes ON THE station
stations allows scientists to
observe massive storms if
a special angle, 51.6 DEGREEs to
be exact.
It is the inclination of the
orbit AROUND earth for the space
station.
The the device was fixed to the
international space station in
2014.
The ist science processing lead
AT the jet propulsion LABORATORY
says:
The data that rapid scan
provides it being used by noAa
providing BETTER OBSERVATIONs of
storms as they INTENSIFY and
weaken.
The project SCIENTIST AT noAa
says:
In the TROPLics it has improved
the wind coverage of the
constellation from once every
other day to MORE than once
a day on average.
Iss rapit scat is a radar
bouncing waves off the ocean's
surface and measuring the echo.
From the information SCIENTIST
cans derequire wind speed and
the direction based on the orien
TAEUGSZ of the waves.
It excels as measuring wind AT
the surface.
That is important for many
reasons.
For one thing, surface winds
define how the ocean and
ATMOSPHERE interact where they
meet, which influences weather
in the short and long time
scales.
MORE over surface winds are what
is experience AT sea and people
experience in buildings when
a storm makes landfall.
It senses wind speeds and
directions.
With such a big voido the ocean,
remotely SENSed ocean surface
winds play an SRAOUPLTal role
in -- STRAOUPLal role in
forecasting and modeling.
This is useful for weather
forecasting and climate studies.
Since it was LAUNCHed it has
seen dozens of storms big and
small, maps of surface winds
have given scientists a unique
view of the inner working of the
storms.
The orbit of the space station
covers from southern Canada to
the southern tip of South
America every 48 hours.
That means few storms escape the
relentless scanning.
IT is enticing weather
forecasters to make increasing
use of the high resolution data
that the system offers.
The information is being
utilized by marine forecasters
AT noAa to warn from HURPB
HURPBs and storms to fair
weather CONditions.
It impacks everything from
large -- impacts from cargo ship
routeing to families vacationing
Along the coast.
As summer unfolds it will have
a lot to do.
For MORE from the international
space station, go to:
>> From 250 miles up, cameras
and crew member ON THE
international space station have
a great view of earth.
It workses in reverse too.
There are times when almost
everybody on this planet has
a chance to see humanity's home
on orbit from your own backyard.
Nick hague shares how you can
use the spot the station WEBSITE
AT NASA.gov to find out when the
international space station
might be visible to you.
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>> Did you know that we are
traveling AT 5 miles a second?
We are GOING around the earth so
fast that we orbit it every 90
minutes.
That means ON THE space station
we see 16 sun rises and SUN SETS
every day, each magical to
watch.
MORE important than the view, we
depend ON THE sun's light to
POWER our space station and use
massive SOLAR rays to soak it
up.
They are so large when the sun's
light glints off them it is
possible to see us from the
ground.
That means you can look up in
the sky AT dawn or dusk and see
our space ship flying overhead.
Take a few minutes to step
outside, spot the station, wave
hello to us and remember what we
represent, people from across
the globe committed to working
together to improve life for
everyone on earth.
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