>>> Ignition sequence start.
♪
>> Good morning and in for
a look at the activities in the
SPACE SHUTTLE frights control
room.
It's the spot where a team of
specialist system always keeping
an eye on operations and working
WITH THE expedition 66 crew
members as they work through the
business of the day on orbit.
They are poised for a busy next
couple of days anticipating the
ARRIVAL of a new shipment of
supplies and a Russian cargo
ship and then four new crew mate
arriving in a crew dragon
vehicle.
♪
>> Welcome to space to ground.
Prepare for example a new crew
and wrapping up a decade of
research.
Lots of activity Aboard the
international space station.
Nation's mission will launch
four ASTRONAUTs Aboard a falcon
9 rocket.
It including three NASA
ASTRONAUTs, the commission
commander, pilot and mission
specialist.
Crew three will be conducting
a six month mission Aboard the
space stations.
Target is 2:21 eastern time
October 31 at NASA's KENNEDY
space center in Florida.
NASA will provide live coverage
of launch and docking
activities, the agency's WEBSITE
and app.
Spacex crew 2 mission is
preparing to come home.
They are currently planned to
come home early November with
splash down endeavor off the
coast of Florida.
Following over a decade of
research Aboard the space
station a module is ready for
retirement.
It module is CONtributeED TO
scientific DISCOVERIES including
biomedical device TECHNOLOGY and
understanding the phenomena of
earthquakes.
Through 40 experiments it has
been instrumental in helping
scientists and ENGINEERs
understand the forces that
control the organization and
dynamics of matter at
microscopic scales.
>> The ASTRONAUTs flying on
NASA's Spacex crew 3 mission
have been working together for
months and months now to prepare
for their launch and then the
six months they will spend
together on the international
space station.
You WOULD THINK they have gotten
to know each other pretty well
by now.
Well, watch, as they declare who
on their crew is the funniest
and who has an annoying habit.
Find out which crew member is
pers perKAEURBS and who said.
>> Roger is super fast.
>> Funny, caring and confident.
>> And he is super talented.
A lot of fun to work with.
>> Tom I would say creative and
a teacher.
>> Quiet but with a lot of
experience.
>> Wise.
>> Kala a great commune KAEURGT.
>> So much experience being in
a confined environment and
keeping calm.
>> Innovative.
>> Funniest must be grinder.
>> Grinder.
>> Raja.
>> Tom doesn't talk about it
a lot but has done a lot of
crazy mountain climbing.
>> Tom is the most ADVENTURous.
>> I think that would be me.
>> PRIMARILY LOOKING out the
window with each of them
individually and just doing
stupid human tricks together.
>> Enjoying the time of work and
watching toward the planet and
sharing our dreamS.
>> Hanging out in the coupe
LAand lacking down on the earth.
>> Coming up with some crazy
concoctions made up of expired
food.
>> I think kala might win if we
spanned it out over time.
She can sustain snacks for
a long period of time.
>> She loves a big breakfast.
>> Probably me or grinder.
Unfortunately.
>> Probably kala.
>> Kala.
>> Probably Tom -- I don't know.
We should have one.
>> Probably talking to myself
when I'm thinking.
>> I have more inner monologues
or thinks I'm saying under my
breath I got from Tom.
>> I should ask them.
Let me know what they say.
Probably me.
>> Me.
>> That would be me.
>> That's me.
>> When Roger and his crew mate
arrive at the international
space station and join
expidition 66 they will join an
effort that started more than 20
years ago to use the UNIQUE
environment of micro gravities
that will help HUMANS explore
space farther away from earth
like going to back to the moon
and out to mars.
In this episode of tech on deck
we learn about in-space services
projects division at the goddard
space flight center and its work
to test technologies to usher in
an era of more sustainable,
affordable and resilient space
flight.
>> Did you know IF YOU WERE born
after 2000 during your entire
life there has been someone
living in space.
That's thanks to the
international space station that
celebrated its 20th
anniversary in 2020.
You have heard a lot about the
incredible science that happens
on board the station.
The outside is prime real estate
for experiments and technology
developmentS.
>> It is a great platform to
demstate service and technology.
It provides power, data and
robotics in space.
♪
>> With tech on tech we'll talk
about key experiments that have
taken place outside in the harsh
environment of space that help
ADVANCE human EXPLORATION.
>> The goal of the STKWEUGZ
usher in a new era of more
sustainable, affordable and
resil I can't space flight near
the earth around the moon and
deep in the SOLAR system.
Man members started off with the
hubble telescope servicing
missions and applied that to
robotic SERVICEs.
>> Missions that will help
spacecraft live longer and
journey farther to autonomous
navigation systems they have
taken advantage of the wonderful
opportunitieses the station
offers to test new technologies.
As we look to explore IN our
SOLAR system and beyond and
establishing a sustained human
presence in space beyond low
earth orbit, many technologies
play a key role.
>> We use the robots and space
station to enable satellite
service in the future and more
dangerous tasks that ASTRONAUTs
shouldn't do like going outside
and finding ammonia leaks.
Tasks knowledge whiching for
humans to do.
>> ASTRONAUTs need to reach
their destinations like mars.
This will require refueling and
replenishment of exgen supplies.
-- OXYGEN supplies and they need
to maintain their habitate.
>> Because we FOR space in low
earth orbit we have CONditions
representative of objectses in
space.
It allows us to launch tools and
moduleS INTO orbit, put them on
the space station and use the
technologies to mature the
technologies in a way that is
much les expensive than if we
tried to launch a SATELLITE and
demonstrate them for first time
not using the space station.
>> They work with SATELLITE
servicing and manufacturing to
do the trick.
>> We have the technologies to
service SATELLITEs in the
future, build SATELLITEs and
structures and refuel SATELLITEs
ON THE way to other planets and
repair them like we do outside
the space station.
Humans and robots are used to
maintain habitats in space and
technologies used by NASA and
others to make those a reality.
>> The international space
station is the perfect testing
ground for technologies that
will be used to take humans
FATHERrer than we -- farther
than we have gone before and
build the foundations to make it
possible.
>> THE international space
station is a working LABORATORY
in space.
And SOLAR energy is a key
ELEMENT in keeping it running.
ASTRONAUTs rely on this
renewable energy source to power
the manslaughter they need for
their si -- MACHINES they need
for their science work and their
survival.
If this demonstration video, we
hear the process of GENERATING
power from the station's SOLAR
arrays to produce ELECTRICity
for ASTRONAUTs as they orbit
250-mile above the earth's
surface.
>> Hi.
Welcome Aboard the international
space station.
I'm Rickyarnold and currently at
one of our human research
facilities on iss where you can
see lap taps and other
equipment.
Across from me is another
experiment rack where you can
see ulta sound imaging, more
LAPTOPs and other THING things
that require ELECTRICity.
There are 13-kilometers of
wiring to make it all work.
Where does the energy come from?
Let's have a look.
From here in the cup LAand other
windows you can see the SOLAR
Arays soaking in the sun light.
They are massive.
They are made of SOLAR cells
which are purified chunks of the
ELEMENT silicon.
They contain 262,400 SOLAR cells
and cover 27,000 square feet.
More than half of the area of
a football field.
That's huge.
When the station is in sun light
the SOLAR arrays produce 60%
more power than we actually need
during the daytime.
That extra power goes to
charging our litheiumion
batteries.
They are essential because they
provide the power we need during
the 16 night times we have per
day here on the space station.
The energy our SOLAR awries can
produce is enough to 440 homes
and we can maximize the power by
rotating them, one like a wind
mill to track the sun through
the course of the day and the
other to track the sun's angle
in the sky.
The space station's electrical
power system uses direct
currents to provide energy for
our LAPTOP, light, water
recovery system and science
experiments.
Thank you for coming Aboard
today.
Now back to earth.
>> Lessons from space like the
ones RickY AND other ASTRONAUTs
have taught were designed to
take advantage of the presence
of a former classroom teacher as
a member of the staying stations
station crew to help students
and teachers on the ground in
their studies of science,
technology, ENGINEERing and
math.
It was an effort built on the
example set by another teacher
more than 35 years ago.
>> Reach for it.
Presented by science at NASA.
In August 1984 president Reagan
announced NASA's plan to send
one of America's finest,
a teacher to space Aboard space
shuttle challenger.
Of 11,000 for the adventseur,
37-year-old CHRISTIE MCAULIFF
was chosen.
As the TPEURLT teacher traveling
to space she wanted to conduct
science experiments to get
students excited about history,
about the future and about
space.
Tragically challenger broke
apart soon after liftoff
January 28, 1986 there were no
SURVIVOR AND THE planned
demonstrations were shelved.
International space station
ASTRONAUTs Joe and Ricky have
brought the mission full circle
by completing and filming on
orbit her envisioned lessons as
a tribute to her legacy.
U.S. crew member Aboard the
station have performed and
CAPTURed other brief, engaging
lessons.
As part of the year of education
on station all the demos are
Aavailable around the world.
One less provides hands on
activities for studentses to
understand the importantS of
capillary action and chromatog
fee and compare how they work in
micro gravity SR-RGS on earth.
Capillary action happens when
water flows into a narrow tube.
How plants get water from the
roots to leaves.
It's how our flood makes a round
trip through our bodies and how
the paper towel soaked up the
orange juice you spilled this
MORNING. chromeraphy can
separate mixers to be separated.
They can be used to study
samples at a crime scene.
It is an essential technique for
space flight too.
For instance, keeping crew
persons safe from contaminants
includes analyzing unknowns that
is critical on long space
missions.
An example of a year of
education features RANDY
slingshotting objectses of all
sizes across the INSIDE of the
space station with a bungee
court and how the second law
works in gravity as on earth.
There were opportunities for
hundreds of STUDENTs and
teachers to CONNECT with
ASTRONAUTs Aboard the space
station for live question and
answer sessions.
They ask questions about all
aspects of living and working
AND space.
>> Have you ever had a lot of
idea to pour out a lot of water
and see what happenS.
>> See how it sticks my hand?
I could drink my lemonade right
from my hand.
>> How do you grow plants in
micro gravity without soil and
water getting everywhere?
>> One of the plants uses
pillows impregnated with
MOISTURE and the NUTRIENTs they
need.
We have another advanced plant
habitate I have been working on
where there is reservoir in the
water and it's controlled soil
free.
The important thing is NUTRIENTs
and water.
>> Hi.
>> I didn't have a lot of time
to practice.
Here we go.
My first yo-yo.
So it works.
But it's a little bit different.
Thank you for the question and
letting me find out if they do
work.
>> With the year of education on
station, NASA's goal WAS TO do
what she and her OPTimism did so
well, inspire students and
teachers to quote, reach for.
IT push yourself as far as you
can.
Endquote.
For more on the year of
education on station, go to:
>> NASA's human research program
is using the international space
station to learn more about how
living in space impacts the
human body so we can FIGURE out
how to counter act the negative
impacts to protect future
ASTRONAUTs when they explore
beyond earth orbit including the
radiation they are exposed to.
In this installment on space
radiation scientists discuss the
biological risks future
ASTRONAUTs face on missions out
into the SOLAR system.
>> Of all the I think thises the
human research program is
investigating the exposure to
radiation is one of those.
The health consequences are
COMPLEX.
It is difficult to quantify how
the radiation is interacting
with tissue.
Automore complicateED TO try to
quantify and determine what the
long-term outcomes will be in
terms of things like CENTRAL
nervous system effects and
damage to the central nervous
system.
The primary means radiation
notes cells is damaging the DNA.
You can get breaks in strands of
the double helix.
Sometimes it can repair and it's
effective and sometimes not.
Sometime its will get repaired
but in an error-prone fashion.
Anything that sets into the gene
only in that way is a mutation
and it can POTENTIALly lead to
cancer and take a non-cancerous
cell and make it cancerous.
One is the type of raidation on
earth is gamma rays and x-rays.
We have the protective shielding
of the earth's magnetic field
that shields a great deal of
raidation and PROTECTION
concepts such as time shielding.
We can reduce the time of
EXposure on earth and the
distance from the radiation
sources and the EXPOSURE through
shielding n. space a lot of
those things are different.
We have a complex radiation
field that includes PROtons and
the particles on the period
table of ELEMENTs COMING at
energies proofing the speed
of -- approaching the speed of
light and always there.
The concept of time doesn't make
sense.
You can't reduce the EXPOSURE of
space expect to getting to mars
faster.
You can't reduce the distance
and shielding concepts are
difficult because of the
energies involved.
♪
>> As you would imagine,
performing science research on
the ground can be very different
than performing it in space.
Many international space station
crew members who spend time
working up there come away
feeling like they have under
gone a PROfound change.
Former ASTRONAUT jack fisher is
one of them.
He recalls his time in orbit and
discusses how the spirit of
EXPLORATION CONtributes to
humanity's future.
♪
>> The bug for space really bit
me when I came down to visit my
grandpa here in Houston.
I saw the big old Saturn
5 rocket on its belly out there
and just thought, man, if
humanity can do something this
amazing, this aweSOME, I want to
be part of it.
I just fell more in love with
the idea of space and being
a part of something bigger than
myself.
the thought of actually getting
to space, I couldn't wrap my
head around that.
You walk up to this rocket that
is covered in frost FROM the
cold fuel inside and it is
creeking and groaning and alive.
It is cool but it will probably
cancel.
It will not happen.
I have done so many SIMs and
it's just not real I am not
going to space.
When it lights off and you feel
the rumble and you start to move
and that kind of just constants
smooth acceleration pulling you
back in the seat.
Everything comes to life on the
panels and you see all the
ANYTHINGs you have seen 100
times in SIM in one instant all
of that that I felt was
unimagineABLE became real.
And it was just, it was
a magical thing I'll just nev
forget.
♪
You know, we are SCIENTISTs and
ENGINEERs and pilots and
doctors.
We are not Poeets but we try to
be because you want to share as
best you can the experience that
you have seen and felt.
I think I told my wife on once I
got on board I thought it was.
>> A burrito of aweSOMEness
smothered in aweSOME sauce,
baby.
It's so beautiful.
>> The beauty of being there
yourself with your own eyes and
seeing it.
one thing I would love to do
while on orbit was a window in
one of the Russian modules that
looked out the back of the
station.
I would go sit there and turn
off everything and you could get
it really dark in there.
Let my eyes adjust and just look
out at the stars.
And the stars, you know, the
longer you sit the more you see.
It just it becomes unbelievable
the number, the just billions of
stars.
The galaxies you can see with
your naked eye.
And they don't twinkle.
They just stare at you.
They dare you to come and to
explore.
It lights a fire inside your
soul that is unlike anything I
ever experienced before or
since.
And it's why you see ASTRONAUTs,
you know, they say 560, 580, I
don't know how many people have
gone to space.
They are all the same.
They all have that bug am they
all want to do everything in
their power after experiencing
that to make sure that humanity
reaches its POTENTIAL.
That we get there.
That we don't just see the stars
that we explore them, that we
live there.
That we grow into what we can
be.
You are reminded of the
incredible POTENTIAL that we
have as humans when we put
everything else aside and just
work together.
And you feel a part of that.
Looking out the coupla and those
who have put together this
palace in the sky for us to
discover and learn and grow.
It showed me the POTENTIAL of
what humanity can be when you
work together as one team.
It INSPIRED me to do everything
I can in my power for the rest
of my life to enable humanity to
evolve.
To get there.
To the stars staring straight in
my face and daring us to come
get them, that is something that
you can never quench.
The fire still burns just as
strong today as it will when I
die.
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