You can begin with absolutely nothing and wind up with whatever.
It’s truly everything about what’s up here and what you visualize yourself doing, and what you wish to do
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My name is Dr. Serena Aunon-Chancellor, NASA Astronaut, simply returned from the Space Station in December of in 2015.
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What is it like when that rocket removes?
It’s really a truly smooth flight, really vibrant shifts in between the phase cut offs of the engines.
But besides that, you were truly concentrated on this timing series 8 minutes and 40 seconds to get to orbit therefore you’re following all your treatments, ensuring there are no mistakes or breakdowns.
I believe the neatest parts when the shroud lastly comes off from around the pill and keep an eye out and go.
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It’s definitely it’s incredible to simply stream.
And type of fly all over, your brain truly does not understand what to do since there’s truly no up or down any longer.
If you can equate and move on the ceiling on the walls of the floorings for the very first time.
I attempted to do that I would simply turn myself in circles since it wasn’t sure where I was, and my crewmates like to play shop simply made fun of me since I wasn’t utilized to running because 3D.
Always up or down here in the world, whereas there is no up or down there.
So, after a while however, it ended up being so natural to move.
In the ISS, you might gently touch off things, gently happened the corner, and you really end up being quite elegant.
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How did we make the spaceport station more human?
In a method I didn’t anticipate, which was through music.
And when you reside in an extremely sterilized environment where there aren’t lots of windows, other than for our stunning cupola, however you need to exist.
You do not feel the wind.
You do not feel the rain.
It’s an extremely simply maker driven environment with a consistent low hum.
Music.
Breaks that apart entirely.
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pushing.
The car itself is returning to through the environment and you can see that plasma through the windows.
Very vibrant definitely when the parachutes open since the lorries all of a sudden decreasing.
So it’s a bit like the gnarliest rollercoaster flight you have actually ever been on, however at the exact same time you’re overjoyed, since the parachutes open which’s an advantage.
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Well, I’ve been driven because I was 8 years of ages, so to end up being an astronaut was not a brand-new dream that all of a sudden turned up when I was 20.
And that drives constantly work for NASA in whatever regard and ultimately end up being an astronaut was constantly there.
And I simply type of relied on the procedure.
Actually learnt electrical engineering at the George Washington University, however it’s likewise pre med at the time.
So after completing that degree, I went to medical school at the University of Texas.
Health center at Houston, now McGovern Medical School.
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When I was onboard the spaceport station in 2015, from June through December, we did a great deal of medical research study that I believe individuals do not understand about.
One of those was research study in cancer, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s.
And I believe individuals think the science we do on the spaceport station just associates with area expedition.
And they do not understand How much it matters to treatment of daily living here on Earth.
And I was most happy, truly, of the cancer research study that we did.
Endothelial cells are cells that line your capillary.
Everybody has them, they’re inside your arteries and your veins.
And what researchers found was that in area, onboard the spaceport station, endothelial cells truly liked to grow, and they grow for a long period of time.
When researchers attempt and grow them on Earth, they can’t get them to grow for that long cuz they’re growing in a flat plate.
And it’s much more difficult and it resembles the cells do not like to be there.
But up in area, they enjoy to be there.
So what’s the advantage of that?
Well, when you have an endothelial cell that can grow for an extended period of time, that then permits researchers to come in and test chemotherapy on the endothelial cell Every growth requires a blood supply, which blood supply is formed by those cells.
So, researchers are looking for medications to assist eliminate that growth’s blood supply.
And, they are much better able to do that in the area environment.
I believe what my medical Background truly entered into play was when I was taking a look at a few of these medical experiments.
As a practicing doctor, I still have clients with a great deal of these illness.
And so, since we engage with the researchers on practically an everyday basis, I was much better able to take a look at the science, take a look at the cells under the microscopic lense, and assist them discover the information they required to finish their research study Search.
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So the body in area, it’s intriguing.
They compare us to a quickly aging population.
So for instance, we lose bone mass at a quite fast rate up there.
Similar to osteoporosis you see here on the ground, however even much faster.
And so it’s intriguing since they can take a look at us, and perhaps even check specific medications.
With the sort of bone loss that we have, that likewise affects countless Americans on the ground, who likewise have osteoporosis.
Now this is challenging for us since 6 months in low Earth orbit, we recuperate quite well.
Once we return.
those issues get back at more difficult once we attempt and press out towards Mars and we’re taking a look at to the 3 year objective Personally, I believe you require a doctor on that objective, one train and a vast array of things, however they’re most likely going to require some sort of help, medical help or medical choice making help with them on that objective, whether that’s some sort of computer system or software application to help them.
I do not believe we are where Star Trek was where they had the.
You understand, virtual truth medical assistant that will appear and assist you identify, however we have that in software application.
I believe the harder tough part is attempting to determine what devices are we going to take?
How little can we get it?
And do we believe we have whatever we require?
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NASA wishes to return to the moon by 2024.
And individuals believe that’s difficult.
It’s possible.
We desire boots on the ground.
Kind of with a very little setup.
That’s our start.
Then we produce the sustainable existence on the lunar surface area.
Building a lunar environment.
Testing our engineering.
We attempt and make certain that we understand how to live off the Earth, prior to heading our towards Mars.
I would rather have all those strategies down, even things like how to seal, At up there in microgravity, how do we develop structures?
Does our toilet work the exact same?
Are we all set to go?
How is our car?
How about our lander?
Making sure all that engineering innovation is as robust as it can be prior to we press off for a location that’s much, much even more out.
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I believe among the most essential takeaways from what the area program is doing today is that it’s constantly attempting to advance human existence in area.
And whatever your background is, whether it’s science, it might be chemistry, engineering.
You’re a doctor, you remain in the military, get included with your nation’s area program any place you are throughout the world.
This is not a United States effort, this is an international effort and we have actually never ever seen us as us operating in seclusion.
We do not do that on the Space Station.
I flew with Russians I flew with, Germans I flew with, Canadians.
This is a definitely international effort.
Everybody needs to be interested.
Everybody needs to be included.
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