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Earth's lower orbit where two astronauts
have been stuck in space since last June
but now NASA's Sunny Williams and Butch
Wilmore have a better idea of when
they'll be coming home they were
supposed to be up there for just 8 to 10
days aboard the International Space
Station after launching on Boeing
Starliner first crude test flight now
that test flight was part of NASA's
commercial crew program partnering with
private space companies Boeing and
SpaceX after Williams and Wilmore
arrived at the orbiting Outpost about 9
months ago staff found a helium leak and
Thruster problems on the Starliner
vehicle NASA and boting spent weeks
attempting to pinpoint the cause of the
propulsion issues and gas leaks without
success officials deemed the Starliner
too risky for the astronauts return
flight so they sent the vehicle back to
Earth without the astronauts the pair
then joined the official space station
crew and became part of its staff
rotation Williams and Wilmore are now
expected to return home in about a month
NASA SpaceX crew 10 mission is scheduled
to launch from Earth on March 12th then
after a planned week-long Handover
period the craft will travel back to
Earth with the two astronauts on board
our Anderson Cooper got to speak with
the two astronauts about their time and
space and what gravity might feel like
when they're back home Commander
Williams captain Wilmore thanks so much
for joining us you you've been up there
since last June how how are you doing
we're doing pretty darn good actually
you know um we've got food we've got
clothes we're have great crew members up
here uh you know of course it was a
little bit longer stay than we had
expected but you know um both of us have
trained to live and work on the
International Space Station and we've I
think we've made the the most of it
Commander Williams what does it feel
like to to be floating around all that
time I mean uh I I was going to ask the
captain but his hair is pretty short uh
what I mean your hair is up all the time
is that does it feel weird you know uh
it's a lot of fun I I like my crazy hair
up here it sort of gets a little
Einstein look so it it's it's pretty
cool both of us have lived here before
and it is just amazing how when you come
across the hatch after you've been here
it's like oh my gosh I remember what
this is all like I I remember feeling
what it's like floating and I think both
of us adapted really quickly um and I
think I'm hoping the same will be true
when we come back home yeah how much
time does it take to to adapt when you
land again yeah that's it's going to be
a little bit hard as usual um I've been
up twice before for a long duration
missions and it's almost a day for a day
that you get that like fast twitch
muscle action back again but I think
both of us will uh be a little bit sad
when that feeling of space sort of
leaves us after about 24 hours and we're
not a little bit like motion sickness
from coming back home um that'll that'll
actually be a little bit sad when that
goes away just because um that means
that really physically the the space
flight came to an end and yeah you don't
know it right now Anderson but gravity
is really really tough uh that's what
we'll feel when we first get back
gravity is tough tough in in in what
sense just on your body uh yeah
everything I mean we have no gravity
well we don't feel the effects of
gravity here we're floating as you as as
sun has been saying but when you get
back gravity starts pulling everything
to your lower extremities the the fluid
that is Shifting you know I got a little
puffy face it's always that way when
you're in when I'm in space and all that
fluid is going to be pulled to my lower
extreme iies and it's really going to be
different even to lift a pencil you
don't even feel a pencil when you lift
it when we get back even to lift a
pencil we will F the weight that's the
that's the transition back we all
experience it when we come back to earth
and what's the latest information you
have from NASA about your return is it
still your understanding you'll be
brought home on a SpaceX
spacecraft uh that's affirmative yes uh
that right now the plan is that crew 10
will launch on the 12th of March They'll
Come Here Rend and Doc we'll do a
turnover for about a week and we will
return I don't know about the 19th of
March and and and why can't you leave
sooner I mean what will happen between
now and March 12th when you're expected
to to depart um we bring Crews to and
from space station we have a cycle of
period of time where those things take
place and to alter that cycle sends
Ripple effects all the way down the
chain we would never expect to come back
uh just special for us or anyone unless
it was a medical issue or something
really really out of the circumstances
along those lines um so we need to come
back and keep the normal cycle
going Pop Quiz Hot Shot what unit of
measurement for electrical power
measures the rate of energy usage amps
volts Watts or
Jewel what's that you say way to go if
you said Watts the rate at which energy
is used used or transferred watts are
calculated by multiplying volts and amps
and one watt is the amount of power that
produces one Jewel of energy per second
do you have static electricity problems
clingy clothes you go to touch something
while contemporaneously knowing you're
going to get zapped you pet your cat or
your dog you zap them you feel bad or
your hair keeps standing up well now we
might have a way to keep all of our
static electricity problems at Bay our M
Terrell took a deep dive to find out out
exactly what static electricity is and
something like tin foil might be our
secret weapon against it does your hair
ever get super staticky did you know
that it's actually your hairs trying to
get away from each other the two pieces
of hair if they're both negatively
charged they repel each other so it
pushes them
apart so if you have a lot of static
electricity your hair will literally
stand on end Dr Lawrence marks who
studies static electricity tells us that
when something's negatively charged that
means it has more electrons which are
subatomic particles found in atoms which
make up everything sometimes those
electrons can get transferred from one
material to another material when you
rub or it may be that an atom loses an
electron and that atom gets transferred
to the other material and that's what
causes us to feel shocks after doing
things like petting a cat and it gets
worse in the winter Mark says because
the air is so dry there's a lot of data
which says that if you have water it
short circuits the static electricity
there are other things that can do that
too maybe you've seen videos like this
one on Tik Tok where people use tin foil
to get rid of staticky hair and that is
because the aluminum foil will conduct
away the
electricity water can also conduct away
the electricity and Mark says on a much
larger scale static electricity is what
causes lightning so just remember the
next time you pet fluff and feel that
spark you've actually had a little
lightning shock between your hand and
the cap and that's everyday
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science today's story getting a 10 out
of 10 is a meowing Miracle cat just
before a family's cross country moov
from Washington State all the way to
Colorado their beloved cat Sunny Lou
went missing family and friends kept
searching for sunny L after they left
but when the fam's packed up furniture
and belongings reached its destination 3
weeks later they heard a faint meow they
were shocked it was coming from their
pullout sofa there she was sunny Lou
weak emaciated but surviving in a small
hole in the sofa's armrest no food no
water vets jumped to the rescue and
brought her back to full health and now
she's feline fine living her best nine
lives we had a panete of delightful
words for your word Wednesday so tough
to choose just one congrats today to
miss Teresa and all our lovely people at
La Amistad Learning Center for
submitting contemporaneously an adverb
meaning existing occurring or
originating during the same time thank
you for leveling up our vocab today we
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