NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Scientific Mission Aboard the Space Station

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, is preparing to return to Earth following their science mission aboard the International Space Station.   Hague, Williams, and Wilmore completed more than 900 hours of research between over 150 unique scientific experiments and technology demonstrations during their stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.  Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/41Hgi6V  Download this video: https://images.nasa.gov/details/Crew-9_Science_Highlight  Credit: NASA Producer: Nicole Rose

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00:00We're constantly doing experiments, we're constantly collecting data, we're constantly

00:06trying to answer questions, and usually that leads to more questions.

00:09The focus of the question, though, is what happens when you take gravity away?

00:15Because it's such a strong force, it masks lots of the nuances in different things that

00:21behave around us, and understanding those nuances helps us understand more about ourselves

00:26as well as the universe and how we interact with it.

00:29So we look at medicines, we look at materials and making new materials, we look at how we

00:35behave so that we know how medicines might interact with us or how to counteract diseases.

00:40You name it, we're doing research on it up here.

00:44We've had opportunities to do all sorts of science, spacewalks.

00:48It's varied and pretty awesome, actually, opportunity to do something different every

00:53single day.

00:54You can see Butch Walmart with the different canisters to collect those microorganism swabs.

01:01A great view from the helmet camera of NASA astronaut Nick Hague, you can see floating

01:05off just past that left hand of his, those are the wedge-shaped NICER patches that he'll

01:10be inserting into the NICER experiment, the X-ray telescope.

01:16Anytime you look out the window, it's pretty amazing.

01:18The Aurora Borealis, the Aurora Australis, just to see the variety of the Earth from

01:23above, it's just thrilling.

01:26These are called astrobees.

01:29So they actually can come off the wall and fly around, huge opportunities for people

01:34to test out guidance navigation control on a quote-unquote spacecraft in microgravity

01:40inside here.

01:41So we have companies, universities, students all flying these astrobees around at different

01:47times.

01:48Some of them are actually even grabbing onto other pieces that we might have floating around

01:51and that might help us clean up space debris.

01:54We have a tray right here that does some combustion experiments.

01:58Right on the other side of Butch is a glove box where we've done some stem cell research

02:03as well as DNA sequencing.

02:05And there's an airlock where it can take payloads out of the space station and those could be

02:11Earth observation satellites, they could be launchers of other micro-satellites, they

02:15could be doing all sorts of amazing stuff.

02:18The mission of the space station, the scientific exploration is something that we deeply believe

02:24in and its ability to make a positive impact for all of humanity.

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