SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew's on-orbit event! Experiments explained + spacewalk time-lapse

hello and welcome to the dragon spacecraft you are here with the Polaris Dawn crew my name is Anna Menan I am one of the mission Specialists and the medical officer for our mission this is kid potit he is our pilot Jared isaacman is our mission commander and Sarah Gillis is our mission specialist and we are so excited to talk to you today about some of the science and research we are doing on board here we have had a full complement of research an actionpack schedule for this Mission we've had about 40 science and research experiments that we have been tackling and they span all sorts of genres and we're really excited to talk to you about a few of them today so to kick us off I will start telling you about some of the ones that I love so right here what you see this is a butterfly ultrasound device and it's really neat because it can work with like an iPhone or an iPad or just any sort of like tablet device and so it's really portable and you can take it anywhere even to space and you get to you you're able to actually image all sorts of different pieces of the body and get really good Diagnostics through it so we've been using it for all a whole bunch of different experiments measuring um our different veins we've been measuring our bladder we've been measuring um our like kidneys and liver and a lot of different pieces of the body so it's been really interesting and we're excited to see what we learned from all the data then this right here is another type of ultrasound device this is a novel threedimensional ultrasound or the optic nerve sheath that's a portion of the eye and what's really interesting about this is It's it gives us insight into the fluid shifts and the eye issues that plague astronauts when they go to microgravity and so SST are really interested in the changes that happened to this this optic nerve sheet and this three-dimensional ultrasound is a is a brand new technology you can use it and it gets you really efficient good images of that sheet so hopefully we'll learn a lot more about that those vision changes and I'll hand it over to kid to take it from here hi everybody so the two experiments that I really enjoyed participating in first off uh the Leo plant uh these this was created by the US Air Force Academy which is near and dear to my heart I was assigned there many moons ago as one of the commanders of the cadetes and uh What uh these Cadets have created is a casing that holds uh different plants and we've been Imaging these plants on a daily basis to see what the impact of uh zero gravity is uh on this uh on this plant uh and then one other experiment that we uh complet completed today is an airway assessment um so one of the big concerns is the the fluid shift up here at zero gravity we can really feel the effect as soon as we were on orbit and you can kind of see it in our faces um so one of the concerns with long duration space flight is to be able to triage in case of an emergency and uh one of the first basic steps is Airway assessment um so we volunteered to uh uh do some Imaging of our Airway we did it uh this experiment before flight during flight and then we'll do it postf flight and what this requires is us to uh numb up the nozal P nasal passage um and then insert this endoscopic camera all the way through the nasal passage and and in back of the throat to take these different images um and then postf flight will be able to assess uh what what uh happened to the airway passage uh as that fluid shifts so those are uh two of the experiments I participated in um and I'll pass it off to our commander hey everyone uh so I'm pretty excited about this experiment right here this is a tempest Pro uh also uh called our ambulance in a box so uh you know if you believe in uh spacex's vision of making life multiplanetary that we're going to have thousands of Starships in space some day tens of thousands of people were on Mars and we're exploring our solar system it's pretty cool but those are some pretty long Journeys and uh and hospitals aren't very close by so we have to be able to bring diagnostic tools uh into space with us and then be able to beam that information back home to the flight surgeons so just yesterday we hooked up uh all sorts of cables to this so blood pressure SP2 respiration uh EKG leads and basically we're able to capture a number of vital signs um and uh and test it out and then today we actually did a full-blown medical simulation of what what could be a very likely uh medical uh you know situation that could develop after an Eva and then was able to beam a lot of this information home via starlink to the flight surgeons in mission control so I really am excited about it because it's this kind of Technology that's going to be needed you know to kind of further humankind's Ambitions to uh explore Among the Stars and I'll turn it over to Sarah our mission specialist hey everyone so we've been doing also as Anna mentioned a lot of research into space flight Associated neuro ocular syndrome and so I've got a couple of devices here quick C and floating away from me um and and a pupilometer here um but we've been collecting data kind of every day looking at the changes in our vision over time time and space we also have an experiment from CU Boulder that we uh did shortly after arriving on orbit where you actually put a contact lens into your eye to CH monitor the pressure change every time and there's a picture of Jared he has the contact lens in his eye that's sending pressure data over 24 12 24 hours to a sensor um but he really looked like a rogue space pirate with his eye patch kind of covering it so he didn't have to have some vision changes from that lens but it was a it was quite a look up here for the face pirate awesome well thank you so much for joining us today that is just a brief insight into the wealth of science and research that we've been doing up here we are so excited to gather as much data as we can for these scientists back on Earth so that we can learn together and contribute to our Collective future for the future of human space exploration and on Earth as well so we'll talk to you soon thanks bye stay check back at home we all have a lot of work to do but from here Earth Ser looks like a perfect world right that even one I'm going to step into Matrix One singlehanded Mobility demonstration Commander Jared Isaac men now emerging test Matrix one watching from the nose [Applause] cone up down left and right are [Applause] threes pitch and roller three y inent two switching single-handed operation