{"id":2094,"date":"2015-01-14T07:04:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2015-01-14T07:04:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:04:45","slug":"fresh-supplies-and-experiments-for-samantha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/fresh-supplies-and-experiments-for-samantha\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh supplies and experiments for Samantha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Docked Dragon\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore captured the Dragon spacecraft on\u00a013 January 2015 with its supplies and new experiments for the six astronauts living 400 km above our planet.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Samantha assisted Butch as he operated the International Space Station\u2019s 17 m-long robotic arm to capture the five-tonne supply vessel floating 10 m from the weightless research centre. The spacecraft has brought many experiments for the astronauts to run, involving fruit flies, flatworms, human and shellfish immune cells.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Science against the clock<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Samantha working on cell experiment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the first experiments to be unloaded requires speedy action from the crew. To understand how the immune system works at a molecular level, researchers have sent up human immune cells on Dragon. The cells have been extracted from fresh human blood \u2013 and they survive only 120 hours once outside it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After a two-day flight on Dragon, the cells are on the Station and they need to be placed inside ESA\u2019s Kubik incubator in Europe\u2019s Columbus module as soon as possible.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Once inside the 37\u00b0C incubator, the immune cells will be activated to provoke an immune response before being frozen for analysis back on Earth. The international team of scientists\u00a0conducted multiple rehearsals<\/span><\/a>\u00a0last year to perfect these important steps.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Science sequence part one<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Samantha working on cell experiment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other arrivals on Dragon include immune cells from the common blue mussel. This first in a series of\u00a0Triplelux experiments<\/span><\/a>\u00a0is probing why immune systems function less well in space.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

By simulating an infection in immune cells from different sources \u2013 mussels, rats and bacteria \u2013 and exposing them to weightlessness, normal gravity on Earth and simulated gravity in space, researchers hope to pinpoint whether it is microgravity, radiation or a combination of factors that affect immune systems during spaceflight.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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