>> IGNITION SEQUENCE.
>> GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME TO
MISSION CONTROL HOUSTON.
YOU ARE GETTING A LIVE LOOK AT
THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
FLIGHT CONTROL ROOM WHERE THE
ORBIT 2 TEAM OF FLIGHT
CONTROLLERS HAS STARTED THE
SHIFT OF MONITORING STATION
SYSTEMS AND WORKING WITH THE
EXPEDITION 61 CREWMEMBERS.
THEY ARE JUST FINISHING THEIR
LUNCH BREAK ABOUT TO GO BACK TO
WORK.
COMMANDER LUCA PARMITANO AND THE
CREW MATES ARE LOOKING FORWARD
TO A BUSY FEW DAYS AS THE
STATION WILL SEE ONE CARGO
DEVELOP DEPART AND ANOTHER
ARRIVE CARRYING MORE THAN FOUR
TONS OF SUPPLIES INCLUDING
HARDWARE FOR ANOTHER SET OF
SPACEWALKS.
>> WELCOME TO SPACE TO GROUND.
I AM GARY JORDAN.
THIS WEEK, CARGO CONTINUOUSLY
COMING AND GOING AS HUMANS
CONTINUOUSLY INHABIT THE STATION
NOW 16 YEARS STRONG.
THE JAPANESE HTV-8 CARGO VEHICLE
SCHEDULED TO DEPART ON NOVEMBER
FIRST AFTER 34-DAY ON THE
STATION LOADED WITH TRASH
INCLUDING OLD NICKEL HYDROGEN
BATTERIES THAT WERE SWAPPED OUT
EARLIER THIS YEAR THAN THE CARGO
VEHICLE WILL BURN UP OVER THE
PACIFIC OCEAN.
ON NOVEMBER SECOND, THE CARGO
VEHICLE WILL LIFT OUT FROM
VIRGINIA.
A NEW RECORD OF 8200 POUNDS OF
CARGO ON CYGNUS WILL MAKE THE
WAY TO THE STATION ON TOP OF THE
NEW ANTARES 230 PLUS ROCKET THAT
WILL GIVE THE MASS THE EXTRA
BOOT.
A WATCH ON NASA TV OR THE
AGENCY'S WEBSITE.
NEW CARGO MAKING THE WAY THOUGH
STATION MEANS MORE SCIENCE FOR
THE EXPEDITION CREWMEMBERS TO
GET THEIR HANDS ON.
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS MAKE
UP TWO TONS OF THE CARGO ABOARD
CYGNUS.
INVESTIGATIONS RANGE FROM
RADIATION TO SPACESUITS
SPECIALIZED TOOLS TO WORK ON THE
ALPHA MAGNETIC SPECTROMETER WILL
BE USED ON UPCOMING SPACE WALKS
TO REPAIR TO LOOK FOR EVIDENCE
OF MATTER.
A SPECIAL VEST CALLED ASTRO
SHIELD ASTRONAUTS BEYOND FROM
CERTAIN KINDS OF RADIATION SO
STATION ASTRONAUTS WILL SEE HOW
IT FITS AND FEELS, THE OVEN WILL
EXAMINE THE ABILITY TO BAKE FOOD
IN SPACE WHICH MAY PROVIDE
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL
BENEFITS FOR ASTRONAUT ON DEEP
SPACE MISSIONS.
THESE ARE JUST A FEW EXPERIMENTS
THAT JOINED THE THOUSANDS THAT
HAVE TAKEN PLACE ABOARD THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
SINCE THE FIRST CREW ARRIVED 19
YEARS AGO ON NOVEMBER SECOND,
2000.
WE'RE PANNING DOWN 20 YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS HUMAN PRESENCE IN
2020 AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
RECOGNIZING SOME OF THE GREATEST
MOMENTS IN SPACE STATION HISTORY
LEASING NEW AND UNIQUE CONTENT
AND MUCH MORE.
SEE MORE ON HOW YOU CAN ENGAGE
WITH HASH TASH SPACE STATION 20.
SENDING YOUR QUESTIONS ON THE
UPCOMING BROADCAST AND HERE ON
SPACE TO GROUND USING THE
#ASKNASA.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
>> OK.
HERE IS A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE
ACTIVE AND COVERAGE ON NASA TV
AND NASA.GOV THAT STARTS AT
10:30 CENTRAL TIME THAT MORNING
WITH A BRIEFING BEING FLOWN ON
THE CYGNUS CARGO SHIP FOLLOWED
BY 1:30 CENTRAL THIS AFTER BY A
PRELAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCE.
BETWEEN THE TWO EVENTS, NOON
CENTRAL TIME, WE COVER THE
DEPARTURE OF THE JAPANESE H2
TRANSFER VEHICLE.
AS GARY MENTIONED, 8:30 HOUSTON
TIME SATURDAY MORNING WE START
LIVE COVERAGE OF THE CYGNUS US
IN LAUNCH AT WALLOPS IN VIRGINIA
AND BE BACK MONDAY MORNING AT
3:10 FOR CAPTURE BY STATION'S
ROBOTIC ARM AND 5:30 MON DIE SEE
THE ARM ATTACH THE VEHICLE TO
THE EARTH FACING PORT OF THE
UNITY MODULE.
FLIGHT ENGINEERS CHRISTINA KOCH
AND JESSICA MEIR WILL BE AT THE
CONTROLS CAN OF CANARDARM2 THIS
AFTERNOON TO RELEASE HTV.
KOCH HAS MORE THAN THREE MONTHS
LEFT IN A MISSION THAT WILL RUN
ALMOST 11 MONTHS IN TOTAL.
SHE EARNED MANY OF THE USUAL
CREDENTIALS NEEDED TO BE
SELECTED AS ASTRONAUT BUT DON'T
TOLL THE WHOLE STORY.
HERE IS A LOOK AT KOCH'S
FAVORITE EXTREME ADVENTURES.
HER DABBLING WITH LIGHTNING AT A
FOREIGN TRIP THAT CHANGED
PERFECTIVE ON LIFE.
>> ONE THING I LOVE IS OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES.
LOVE ROCK CLIMBING, SURFING,
CAMPING, BACK PACKING, ANYTHING
THAT IS A CHALLENGE THAT PUTS ME
IN A CIRCUMSTANCE I INSPIRED TO
GET OUT OF OR ENJOY THE OUTDOORS
SO THOSE ARE MY FAVORITE THINGS.
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>> MY FAVORITE VACATION EVER IS
CAMPING TRIPS WITH MY LITTLE
SISTER.
SHE IS ABOUT 20 YEARS YOUNGER
THAN ME AND WE LIKE TO GO ON
HAVE BEEN EVERYWHERE FROM
MONTANA, UTAH, EVERYWHERE IN
BETWEEN AND HAVE A BALL.
>> ONE THING PEOPLE ARE SURPRISE
TO HEAR M ME.
I HAVE RED IN A MOTORCYCLE SOLO
ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THE TRIP FROM NORTH CAROLINA TO
MONTANA AND I CAMPED ALONG THE
WAY BY MYSELF AND IT WAS A
PHENOMENAL TRIP.
LEARNED A LOT ABOUT PLANNING,
SELF RELIANCE, ENJOYED EVERY
MINUTE OF KIND OF SEEING THE
COUNTRY GO BY.
>> WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE I WAS
MAJORING IN PHYSICS I TOOK IT
UPON MYSELF TO BUILD A MACHINE
WHICH IS KNOWN AS A TESLA COIL
AND THE DEVICE INVENTED BY TESLA
AND ACTUAL LIGHTNING STRIKES
THAT ARE FAIRLY LONG IN A
REMEMBER, IT WAS THE SUMMER
PROJECT FOR ME, AND I INVITED A
BUNCH OF MY FRIENDS OVER IN
COLLEGE TO CHECK IT OUT.
THEY WERE ALL COMPLETELY BAFFLED
AT ONE, HOW I DID IT?
WHY I CHOSE TO DO IT AT THE SAME
TIME.
THINK THEY KNEW IT WAS NEAR AND
DEAR TO MY HEART AND I AM A GEEK
AT HEART.
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♪ I STUDIED ABROAD IN GHANA,
WHICH IS IN WEST AFRICA.
THAT TRIP WAS ONE OF THE MOST
WERE FOUND EX PIERCES IN MY
LIFE.
IT TAUGHT ME THE PERSPECTIVE
THAT NOT EVERYTHING THAT I HAD
COME TO KNOW SO FAR IN LIFE WAS
THE SAME THE WORLD ROUND.
THAT MY, EXPERIENCES AND MY WAY
OF SEEING THE WORLD WAS JUST ONE
OF MANY WAYS.
AND I LEARNED ABOUT ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT CULTURE AND CAME TO
LOVE IT.
>> ALONG WITH RUNNING ROBOTIC
ARM AND WALKING IN SPACE WITH
MICROGRAVITY AND OTHER DUTIES AS
SIGNED, ASTRONAUT ON THE
INTERNATIONAL STATION DEVOTE
SOME OF THE TIME TO HELPING
STUDENTS STUDYING SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND
MATH.
IN THIS DEMONSTRATION VIDEO,
ASTRONAUT RICKY ARNOLD SHOWS US
HOW THE MOLECULES THAT MAKE UP
WATER BEHALF UP IN SPACE.
>> WELCOME TO THE INTERS IN
NATIONAL SPACE STATION.
I AM NASA ASTRONAUT RICKY
ARNOLD.
OUR VIEW FROM THE ISS IS
MAGNIFICENT.
WE QUICKLY REALIZED WE REALLY
SHOULD CALL IT PLANET OCEAN.
WE'RE MOSTLY A WATER PLANET.
WATER OH COARSE HERE IN ALL
THREE PHASES, SOLID, LIQUID,
GAS.
THEN PRESENCE OF WATER, ON OTHER
PLANETS THE MOON WITHIN OUR OWN
SOLAR SYSTEM HAS WATER, IS THERE
LIFE THERE, TOO.
WHY IS WATER SO SPECIAL?
ONE REASON IS CALLED SURFACE
TENSION.
AND WHAT IS SURFACE TENSION.
LET'S HAVE A LOOK.
SURFACE TENSION IS A PROPERTY OF
LIQUID IN WHICH MOLECULES OF ONE
SUBSTANCE ARE MORE ATTRACTED TO
EACH OTHER THAN TO MOLECULES OF
ANOTHER SUBSTANCE.
WATER IS UNIQUE AND HIGH SURFACE
TENSION COMPARED TO OTHER
LIQUIDS.
THIS IS DUE PROPERTY.
THE POSITIVE HYDROGEN AND THE
NEGATIVE OXYGEN END CREATE A
STRONG BOND AS THEY SAY,
OPPOSITES I TRACK SO THE
HYDROGEN END OF THE WATER TENDS
TO STICK TO THE OXYGEN END IN A
NEARBY WATER MOLECULES.
THAT WATER SURFACE ONLY
ATTRACTED TO THE WATER MOLECULE
BELOW AND TO THE SIDES OF THEM.
AS THERE IS ONLY AIR ABOVE THE
MOLECULES SO THE SURFACE
MOLECULES OF A BODY OF WATER ARE
PULLED DOWN CREATING A MORE
STABLE STRONGER ENVIRONMENT THAT
IS WHY CERTAIN ANIMALS CAN WALK
ON THE SURFACE OF WATER.
HERE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE
STATION, THE MICROGRAVITY
ENVIRONMENT MAKES IT EASY TO
SHOW HOW WELL WATER USES SURFACE
TENSION TO STICK TOGETHER.
WE EVEN RELY ON SURFACE TENSION
TO HELP US, OUR HAIR.
THOSE OF US WHO HAVE A LOT.
[APPLAUSE]
THANKS FOR COMING ALONG TODAY
AND LEARNING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT
SURFACE TENSION.
WANT TOT LEARN MORE ABOUT THE
UNIQUE PROPERTIES OF WATER AND
DO YOUR OWN EXPERIMENTS?
TRY OUT THE ACTIVITY RELATED TO
THIS VIDEO AT THE DEMONSTRATION
WEBSITE.
SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
>> BECAUSE MICROBES LIVE
EVERYWHERE, SCIENTISTS SPACE
CENTER CONSTANTLY MONITOR THE
BACTERIA AND FUNGI ON THE
NATIONAL SPACE STATION AND NOW
USING DNA SEQUENCING TO BE ABLE
TO IDENTIFY THOUGH MICROBES ON
ORBIT WITHOUT HAVING TO BRING
SAMPLES BACK TO EARTH FOR
TESTING.
THAT IS IMPORTANT BAITS IS THE
NEEDED TO COOP THE CREWS AND THE
PLACES THEY VISIT SAFE ON FUTURE
DEEP SPACE MISSIONS.
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>> EXPERIMENTS BEING DONE ON THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ARE
MAKING ADVANCES IN A WHOLE RANGE
OF SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES
INCLUDING MEDICAL SCIENCE THAT
COULD BENEFIT THE MORE THAN
5MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED BY
PARKINSON'S DISEASE.
EARLY THIS YEAR, ALEXANDER GERST
AT THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
WORKED ON EXPERIMENT WITH A
PARTICULAR PROTEIN CRYSTAL THAT
MAY HOLD IMPORTANT INSIGHTS
SERENA AUNON CHANCELLOR WALKS US
THROUGH WHAT THAT IS LIKE.
>> WE'RE DOING REALLY COOL
SCIENCE THIS IS GERST OVER HERE
WITH ME AND WORKING ON
PARKINSON'S DISEASE.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS A
SPECIAL PROTEIN OR PROTEIN
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND THE REASON
THEY HAVE SENT IT UP HERE THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION IS
BECAUSE THESE PROTEIN CRYSTALS
TEN TO GROW LARGER AND MUCH
BETTER QUALITY AND PARKINSON'S
IS A DISEASE THAT AFFECTS OVER
5MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE AND
SEARCHING WE DISCOVERED THAT IS
HERE IN THE MICROGRAVITY
ENVIRONMENT THE CRYSTALS LIKE TO
GO AND BETTER CLARIFY THE
STRUCTURE AND SO BETTER ABLE TO
DEVELOP DRUG FOR PARKINSON'S AND
NOT ONLY DRUG.
HE IS OBVIOUSLY WORKING ON THE
WALL.
HE HAS PLATE.
THE STRUCTURES TO CRYSTALLIZE
AND EXAMINE THEM AND INTERACTING
REAL TIME WITH THE PRINCIPAL
INVESTIGATOR ON THE GROUND TO
LOOK AT THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE TO
HELP IMPROVE THE LYING AND THE
CLARITY AND THEN ALSO TAKE
PICTURES WHICH WE ARE GOING TO
BE SENT BACK DOWN THE GROUND.
>> SO HERE, EXPEDITION 7 WE ARE
TAKING PART IN THE EXPERIMENT
AND I THINK IN THE PAST FEW
YEARS.
THEY HAVE REALIZED THAT THE
MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENT IS
UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT TO GROW
THINGS LIKE CELLS OR PROTEIN
CRYSTALS THAT PROVIDES A NEW WAY
TO HELP US LOOK AT THE DISEASE
IN A BETTER WAY TO HELP US
DEVELOP NEW MEDICATIONS FOR
THESE DISEASE AND SO WE'RE HAPPY
TO BE TAKING PART IN THE
SCIENTISTS UP HERE.
>> MISSION TO SERVE AS SCIENCE
LAB TO TROY SUPPORT FUTURE
EXPLORATION INTO DEEP SPACE TO
PROMOTE INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION AND TO ENCOURAGE
COMMERCIALIZATION OF SPACEFLIGHT
IN RESEARCH.
ALL OF THOSE GOALS COME TOGETHER
IN ONE PROGRAM WHEN THE STATION
IS USED AS A LAUNCHPAD FOR
SERIES OF SMALL SATELLITES KNOWN
AS CUBESATS.
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>> PRESENTED BY SCIENCE AT NASA.
>> REMEMBER THE OLD ADAGE BIG
THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES.
THAT IS SA HAS UPDATED IT.
IN A FORM OF CUBESAT.
IMAGINE A REAL WORKING SATELLITE
THAT IS SO SMALL, YOU CAN HOLD
IT IN YOUR HAND.
JUST FOUR INCHES OR TEN
CENTIMETERS ACROSS.
1999 STANFORD UNIVERSITY FOR
EDUCATION PURPOSES AND NASA HAS
SINCE USED THEM FOR NEW SCIENCE
MISSIONS AND TO TEST NEW
ELECTRONICS SENSORS AND SOFTWARE
THAT MAY BE INCLUDED ON LARGER
MISSIONS.
THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY FOSTER THE
NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTOR
SAYS THE ABILITY TO TEST NEW
TECHNOLOGY IN A FRACTION OF THE
COST OF A LARGER SATELLITE MAKES
THEM INVALUABLE IN REALLY OPENS
YOUR EYES TO MANY POSSIBILITIES.
JUST AS EYE OPENING IS THE WAY
CUBESATS ARE QUICKLY UNLOCKING
NEW SCIENTIFIC DATA.
FOR EXAMPLE, WHILE CONVENTIONAL
SATELLITES HAVE LONG OBSERVED
CLOUDS, AND HAVE PROVIDED
ESTIMATES OF THE LIQUID
PRECIPITATION THEY HOLD, THEY
HAVE NEVER OBSERVED THE SMALLER
ICE PARTICLES THAT CREATE
ENORMOUS RAIN CLOUDS.
THE CUBESAT KNOWN AS ICECUBE
CONTAINED A NEW SUB METER WAVE
LENGTH that could make a space
face measurement of the small
frozen crystals that make up ice
clouds after being deployed from
the international space station
in May of 2017.
Ice cube created a global map of
ice cube around the planet some
day it May help improve long
range weather molds and
forecasts.
>> Long way FROM earth, marco A
and B traveled to mar and the
only cube sats so far.
When the mission was launched in
May of 2019.
The marco A and marco B cube
sats began their seventh month
journey to mars now in sight has
landed on the red plan met.
One of marco's roles was to help
relay communication during in
sight's landing process.
Landing data was transmitted to
the mar's reconnaissance orbiter
where it is radio stored and
forwarded results to earth after
delay.
Marco A and B acted as a bent
pipe relay during the critical
stage of the mission to allow
communication FROM mars to earth
to happen in almost real tomb.
According to Charles norton,
special adviser for small
spacecraft missions in NASA
another advantage of the compact
cubes is they allow for very
focused scientific quire ryes to
take place.
The miniature x-ray solar
spectrometer cube sat is a
student project using a
commercial laboratory detector
in space.
Measures the soft X raise solar
peck strum and between two other
missions and iris.
>> This gap region in the
spectrum is important in the
earth for observations of solar
flares and active regions.
>> Car discovery as monumental
as the origin of the universe
itself.
One longstanding mystery of
Astrophysics is where one-third
of the ordinary matter that
existed during the early
formation of the universe might
be found today.
Scientists suspect it lies hot
Halos of gases that surround
galaxies.
A cube sat that will examine
x-rays surrounding our milky way
to determine how much missing
matter May lie in the hallow of
our galaxy.
While small in size, cubesats
are potential to make big
scientific technological impact
on earth and the solar system
and keep this the universe.
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♪ visit science.NASA. Gov.
>> The range of science research
peaking done on the
international space station is
remarkable.
Yet, the station programs
science office hopes you can
help expand it.
If you got a hypothesis to test
that requires eliminating
gravity as variable have we got
a research platform for you.
>> Hi.
I am NASA astronaut, Megan.
Did you flow is a research
laboratory in space it?
The international space station.
It is a scientific stepping
stone that is enabling us to
explore further into space while
improving life on earth.
The space station provides
unique environment of
microgravity, extreme conditions
and observation platform.
>> Towards gin access to the lab
laboratory.
Don't know much.
That is ok.
With are here to help people
like you every day.
You May be curious about funding
capability and access or maybe
you don't know where to start.
Give us a call or e-mail.
We'll ask you basic questions
about your objectives.
Visit Nasa. Gov/station
opportunities for more detailed
ideas and answers and contact
information.
Or find us at the station
research.
>> So welcome the international
space station.
You will be part of the
worldwide group of researches
making discoveries on the
amazing orbiting vehicle.
>> All for the benefit of our
planet and future exploration.
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♪ Nasa's ARTEMIS program will
return Americans to the moon by
2024 and help get us ready to go
on to mar.
Well, knowledge of the geology
of both of locations will be
important.
Earlier this year.
The next to last man on the
moon, Apollo astronaut Harrison
sh shut and astronaut candidate
met up at the Johnson space
center moon rock lab so the two
could discuss how what we
learned from Apollo will inform
our efforts in ARTEMIS.
I would bet on it.
>> The left side.
>> We talk about what went into
the sampling strategy and how
you chose.
The idea is to get a broader
spectrum of new in fact we
sampled at least out what we
call FROM three major and maybe
for you.
We sampled fragments that almost
came out.
On the moon we didn't know that.
>> That is only recently.
We figured that out.
Then, we also then add to our
Brad knowledge and history of
the vol can k eruptions.
Now when you are going to the
moon and on the way to mars.
That education I think you are
going to get on the moon will be
very relevant to mars but mars
of course, hey crow meteorite
impact environment.
>> Small atmosphere of 100 and
that averages out.
The main weathering pros on
those moon and the impacts be a
and of the surface and
actually's rode the surface and
rocks as well.
And on mars dominate FORCES P.
yep.
And so you are used to studying
here on earth.
You are in good shape.
>> Yeah.
You learn a lot.
But all of that comes FROM
studying machine and we would
not understand everything to
speculate about.
>> Right.
>> The missa led effort to
return to the moon in a
sustainable fashion is moving
ahead all across the country
here is update on the progress
of work being done on the space
launch system rocket and the
exploration of ground systems
hardware that will support those
missions coming up in just a few
years.
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If you are out anyway.
Check out Houston we have a
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We talk to folks about their
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New episodes post every Friday
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Gary Jordan gets into the
details of how the ARTEMIS
missions to the moon will be
done and how they will be
different FROM Apollo missions
he TALKED to exploration mission
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