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Space Station Live: Studying Plants in Space for Better Medicine – Video

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Space Station Live: Studying Plants in Space for Better Medicine
Space Station Live commentator interviews Dr. Timothy Hammond, principal investigator for the Advanced Plant Experiments 2 delivered inside the SpaceX Dragon...

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Earth from Above (4K) – Video

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Earth from Above (4K)
The world as seen by the men and women who went to the International Space Station that orbits Earth 16 times a day. All those people thankfully shot quite a lot of pictures of Our Home to...

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Dextre installs OPALS on the International Space Station – Video

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Dextre installs OPALS on the International Space Station
This computer-generated animation shows Dextre, the Canadian robotic handyman on board the International Space Station (ISS), retrieving OPALS (short for Opt...

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The Great British Space Dinner Competition – Video

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The Great British Space Dinner Competition
The UK Space Agency is inviting children between the ages of 7 and 14 to design a British-inspired, balanced and exciting meal for British ESA astronaut Tim Peake to eat during his 6 month...

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A musical moment on the space station – Video

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A musical moment on the space station
During a Digital Learning Network event on May 2, International Space Station Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shared a musical moment with students in Japan...

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Loading ATV-5 cargo – Video

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Loading ATV-5 cargo
This timelapse video shows the cargo loading process for ESA #39;s fifth and last Automated Transfer Vehicle, Georges Lematre. ATV-5 will deliver more than 2600 kg of dry cargo to the International...

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NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman Available for Interviews before Space Station Mission

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NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman of Baltimore, Md., who is making final preparations for a May launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6 to 7 a.m. EDT Friday, May 9.

Wiseman will participate live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The interviews will be preceded at 5:30 a.m. by a video b-roll feed of his mission training highlights. To participate, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 orkaren.a.svetaka@nasa.govno later than 3 p.m., Thursday, May 8.

Wiseman is a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Md. As a naval aviator, Wiseman flew the FA-18F Super Hornet and served in numerous assignments around the world before his selection to NASA's astronaut corps in 2009

Wiseman, Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft May 28 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are scheduled to return to Earth in November.

Wiseman, Gerst and Suraev will join NASA astronaut Steve Swanson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, who launched to the station in March. The six-person crew will participate in several hundred experiments in biology and biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during its nearly six-month-long space mission.

The International Space Station is NASA's springboard to the exploration of deep space and Mars. NASA uses the space station as a test bed to demonstrate new technologies and make research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. The orbiting laboratory also advances our understanding of how the body changes in space over time and how to protect astronaut health for longer duration missions.

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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International Space Station Crew to Connect Live with Idaho Students

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NASA astronauts and Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson, currently orbiting Earth aboard the International Space Station, will speak with students and educators at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho, Tuesday, May 6, at 11:55 a.m. EDT. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Media interested in covering the event should contact Ellie Rodgers at 208-426-5738 orellierodgers@boisestate.edu. Boise State University is located at 1910 University Drive in Boise.

Former NASA astronaut Barbara Morgan, who flew on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission in 2007 and currently is an educator-in-residence at the university, also will participate in Tuesday's event, which focuses on living and working in space.

Educators have been preparing their students for the conversation with the crew by incorporating NASA activities in their classrooms. A group of Boise State students working on this event have dubbed themselves the "Space Broncos" and are working on maintaining a social media site and developing educational demonstrations for Swanson, who has been named a "Professor of Practice" by Boise State, to perform in orbit.

This in-flight education downlink is one in a series designed to improve teaching and learning science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). It is an integral component of NASA's Teaching From Space education program, which promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique environment of space and NASA's human spaceflight program.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:

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http://www.nasa.gov/education

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New Animated Series Space Racers Launches Nationwide with Technical Consulting from NASA

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Maryland Public Television (MPT), the presenting station forSpace Racers, is pleased to announce the official launch of this new, educational animated series with technical consulting from NASA. Early reports indicate a majority of public television stations have expressed interest in airingSpace Racersin the coming months. Public television stations in the top markets that will be airing Space Racers starting in May include:Los Angeles(KCET, KVCR),Dallas(KERA),Washington D.C./Baltimore(MPT),Houston(Houston Public Media, TV 8),Detroit(WTVS, Detroit Public TV),Seattle(KCTS 9),Miami(WRLN Channel 17),Denver(Rocky Mountain PBS),Orlando(WEFS-TV),Pittsburgh(WQED),Salt Lake City(KUED),West Palm Beach(WXEL PBS For the Palm Beaches),Charlotte/South Carolina(ETV),Alabama(APT),Norfolk(WHRO),Arkansas(AETN),New Orleans(WLAE),Providence(WSBE) and many more. If your state is not included, contact your localpublic television stationto find out when it will air in your area.

The officialSpace Racerswebsite,www.SpaceRacers.org, created by WNET in conjunction with Siite, recently launched and includes out-of-this-world features like videos, space games and tools for little scientists to explore the solar system. An exclusive section for parents and educators encompasses family activities and lesson plans based on an early-childhood STEM curriculum. Educational materials created specifically for use in local classrooms will be available on the site.

Science Museums and NASA Visitor Centers around the country will host screening events to celebrate the premiere and support the series launch locally.The Maryland Science Center, a partner in the series' live educational interstitials, hosted an exclusive screening of the series in early April. Children were treated to a first hand-account of the show's development from the Executive Producer and heard from NASA scientists about their involvement in the creation ofSpace Racers. Several launch events are being held in partnership with NASA including the Space Center Houston onMay 4, The California Science Center inLos AngelesonMay 29and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center inHuntsville, ALon June 1. Other upcoming events include aMay 3screening at the Clark Planetarium inSalt Lake City, aMay 8screening at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum inWashington D.C., and aMay 10screening at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Denver.

The Virginia Air & Space Center is collaborating with theSpace Racersteam to develop an interactive space exploration exhibit for their preschool-aged visitors. The audience will experience the science behind space exploration including living, working and playing in space. The branded Space Racers-themed exhibit debuts in summer 2014 and will include theSpaceRacerscharacters and showcase video content from the show.

"We are thrilled and delighted at the reception ofSpace Racers. The station's reactions have been phenomenal and we are really excited about the pick-up of the show thus far," saysRichard SchweigerExecutive Producer and Creator ofSpace Racers. "Working on a Space Racers Museum exhibit with the Virginia Air & Space Center is exactly what we could hope for in terms of marrying our characters to science and space education. And nothing is more pleasing then seeing the response of the children attending our events when they see Eagle, Hawk, Robyn and the rest of theSpace Racerscrew for the very first time. We are pleased to be giving our fans this special treat."

"Maryland Public Television is very pleased with the overwhelming response we are receiving from public television stations around the country," adds MPT Chief Content OfficerSteven Schupak. "When we first spoke with Richard and theSpace Racersteam three years ago, we knew this series was something special. We are also very pleased to work on the live-action interstitials with Richard and his creative animation team."

Viewers that would enjoy seeing this series in their area are encouraged to contact their local Public Television Station to express interest inSpace Racers.Public TV stations can be located through the online station finder at this web link:http://www.aptonline.org/aptweb.nsf/vViewers/Index-Stations+Near+You

About Space Race, LLCFounded in 2010 Space Race, LLC is based inNew Yorkspecializing in children's programming and educational entertainment. Space Race, LLC aims to provide high-quality kids content for television, websites, gaming activities, and educational curricula.

About MPTLaunched in 1969 and headquartered inOwings Mills, MD, Maryland Public Television is a nonprofit, state-licensed public television network and member of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). MPT's six transmitters coverMarylandplus portions of contiguous states and the District of Columbia. Frequent winner of regional Emmy awards, MPT creates local, regional, and national television shows. Beyond broadcast, MPT's commitment to professional educators, parents, caregivers, and learners of all ages is manifest in its year-round instructional events and super-websiteThinkportwhich garners in excess of 1.4 million visits annually.

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Exploring genetics behind Alzheimer's resiliency

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Autopsies have revealed that some individuals develop the cellular changes indicative of Alzheimer's disease without ever showing clinical symptoms in their lifetime.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center memory researchers have discovered a potential genetic variant in these asymptomatic individuals that may make brains more resilient against Alzheimer's.

"Most Alzheimer's research is searching for genes that predict the disease, but we're taking a different approach. We're looking for genes that predict who among those with Alzheimer's pathology will actually show clinical symptoms of the disease," said principal investigator Timothy Hohman, Ph.D., a post-doctoral research fellow in the Center for Human Genetics Research and the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center.

The article, "Genetic modification of the relationship between phosphorylated tau and neurodegeneration," was published online recently in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia.

The researchers used a marker of Alzheimer's disease found in cerebrospinal fluid called phosphorylated tau. In brain cells, tau is a protein that stabilizes the highways of cellular transport in neurons. In Alzheimer's disease tau forms "tangles" that disrupt cellular messages.

Analyzing a sample of 700 subjects from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Hohman and colleagues looked for genetic variants that modify the relationship between phosphorylated tau and lateral ventricle dilation -- a measure of disease progression visible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). One genetic mutation (rs4728029) was found to relate to both ventricle dilation and cognition and is a marker of neuroinflammation.

"This gene marker appears to be related to an inflammatory response in the presence of phosphorylated tau," Hohman said.

"It appears that certain individuals with a genetic predisposition toward a 'bad' neuroinflammatory response have neurodegeneration. But those with a genetic predisposition toward no inflammatory response, or a reduced one, are able to endure the pathology without marked neurodegeneration."

Hohman hopes to expand the study to include a larger sample and investigate gene and protein expression using data from a large autopsy study of Alzheimer's disease.

"The work highlights the possible mechanism behind asymptomatic Alzheimer's disease, and with that mechanism we may be able to approach intervention from a new perspective. Future interventions may be able to activate these innate response systems that protect against developing Alzheimer's symptoms," Hohman said.

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