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Canaveral wednesday evening on a spacex rocket. their capsule, the dragon, measuring 13 feet wide, their home as they whizzed around earth at 17,000 miles an hour. >> its been really interesting to see how fluid shifts with this microgravity environment. >> reporter: the mission part science, to determine the effects of space on the human body, and part charity, more than $150 million raised for st. judes childrens hospital where arceneaux works. patients there are getting a rare treat thursday....

>> reporter: commander jared isaacman and the crew of spacexs inspiration 4 giving the world a glimpse into their historic three-day trip to space. >> welcome, everybody, to crew dragon resilience. >> hailey arceneaux, a physicians assistant back on earth, explaining some of the scientific experiments the crew has been conducting as they orbit at an altitude even higher than the international space station. >> its been really interesting to see how fluid shifts with this microgravity environment...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 16 December, 2020 - Exploring Heart Cells, Muscles Status Report - Source: SpaceRef Space biology was the dominant research theme aboard the International Space Station today. The Expedition 64 crew explored heart cells, muscles and more to understand how microgravity impacts the human body. The Cardinal Heart study has been under way all week with the crew observing engineered heart tissue samples through a microscope in Japans Kibo laboratory m...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020 Status Report - Source: SpaceRef NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 11 December, 2020. Today: Payloads - JAXA Low Temp PCG: The crew retrieved the Low Temp PCG Sample from cold stowage and initiated protein crystal growth with historical documentation of the sample condition. The PCG Sample was re-inserted back into cold stowage. The objective of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Low Temperature Protein Crystallization Grow...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 8 December 2020 - Unpacking the Dragon Status Report - Source: SpaceRef The upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station. Six spaceships, three U.S. and three Russian, are parked at the International Space Station after Mondays arrival of the upgraded SpaceX Cargo Dragon vehicle. The Expedition 64 crew will spend the rest of December focusing on science as 2021 shapes up to be a busy year on the orbital lab. Two...

NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 9 December 2020 - New Space Biology Experiments Status Report - Source: SpaceRef Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins checks on biological samples. The Expedition 64 crew kicked off an array of new space biology experiments delivered this week aboard the SpaceX Cargo Dragon. The International Space Station residents will be gaining unique insights about the human heart, muscles and stem cells that only microgravity can provide. NASA astr...

I was really amazed that until very recently, he was flying an airplane by himself. >> its also sort of now in many ways people take space flight for granted now. but when john glenn was, you know, doing it early on, its obviously an incredibly risky thing even now, but there was so much still to be learned, so much still kind of unknown. >> yeah. at that time, you know, during those early -- those very early days, it wasnt even clear how the human physiology -- you know, if our hearts would bea...

But when john glenn was, you know, doing it early on, its obviously an incredibly risky thing even now, but there was so much still to be learned, so much still kind of unknown. >> yeah. at that time, you know, during those early -- those very early days, it wasnt even clear how the human physiology -- you know, if our hearts would beat the right way and if we would actually be able to survive in a microgravity environment. in addition to the rocket, the risk of the rocket blowing up, which we h...