Loral O’Hara – Exploring Science In Space

NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific investigations and technology demonstrations to prepare for future space exploration missions and generate innovations and benefits for humanity on Earth. Here is a look at some of the scientific activities O’Hara conducted during her mission: https://go.nasa.gov/3IQ5uJJ Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars -- discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox. Subscribe at: https://www.nasa.gov/subscribe

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From the time that I was really young, I was always really interested in exploration and and I dreamed of being an explorer. two, one, and lift off O’hara, Kononenko, and Chub begin a short duration journey for a long duration mission on the International Space Station. Every day we get to do all these different kinds of science experiments, everything from 3D printing, human heart tissue to manufacturing, new materials on space station, to growing plants, to studying cell cultures to learn more about how to treat diseases in people and animals on planet Earth. Every day is different, and every day is very interesting. Thanks again for helping us out.

That was the most challenging part of this activity. Thanks, Jim. It was good working with you, too. I enjoyed the connector fun. One of the things that I found most interesting on board is all the human research that we do.

One is the CIPHER experiment that is a study comprised of 14 different experiments studying all aspects of human physiology and psychology in space and how the human body adapts to the space environment. The other thing that we've all been getting to work on since SpaceX 29 arrived is a couple of different experiments in the life sciences glovebox. Believe it or not, we all get older, faster when we're on orbit. And so that essentially speeds up time for researchers so they can study the phenomenon that happens in our cells at a faster rate than they could on Earth. The goal of that is helping improve the health of astronauts on longer duration missions to the moon and Mars, but also to help improve life on Earth for people in terms of tissue degradation and disease As humans, age.

It's just been a blast living and working in space. The work has been super interesting The crew has been awesome. We get along really well, share a lot of laughs. This mission has been incredible. I had really high expectations for it and I think it succeeded every single one of them.

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