Gape VP Kamala Harris mumble with NASA astronauts in living for Ladies’s History Month

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris made a assorted call to the Global Field Jam (ISS) to celebrate Ladies’s History Month and about a of the bottom-breaking work astronauts are doing in orbit. 

NASA shared a video of the conversation between Harris and astronauts Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins, who’re right now working aboard the ISS for a six-month mission. The resolution, which NASA launched on YouTube Wednesday (March 24), came amid Ladies’s History Month. 

“Greetings from the White Home, which is the place I am stunning now,” Harris mentioned excitedly before all the pieces place of the video. “Congratulations on your complete success and appropriate being girls folk in living — you all are such fabulous role models.” 

Video: VP Kamala Harris calls living web page! Talks with NASA’s Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins

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Harris requested Walker and Rubins concerning the analysis they’re right now working on and to fragment advice for younger those who would be attracted to turning into astronauts or scientists. 

“I manufacture no longer indulge in any of us ever if truth be told belief we may per chance presumably well presumably be astronauts,” Rubins, who used to be the primary particular person to sequence DNA in living, mentioned within the video. “So I would serve every person who’s even mad by it, appropriate manufacture no longer remove your self encourage. All of our crew contributors attain what we attain on myth of we like it. We like each minute of it.” 

One of the most most analysis being conducted on the living web page this day involves discovering out hundreds of small worms to possess a look at at how muscle strength adjustments within the ambiance of living, and working with free-floating satellites that will serve future explorations to the moon and Mars. 

These satellites, called Astrobees, work alongside the astronauts autonomously or by technique of a long way-off withhold watch over. The robots are designed to form routine chores and tasks around the living web page, akin to documenting experiments, working collectively to switch cargo or serving to search out misplaced items of gear. The astronauts are testing the robotic expertise so that the Astrobees can in some unspecified time in the future remove future spacecraft while the crew is away, Walker outlined within the video. 

“Science is onerous work and folk compile alarmed by the coursework, and they indulge in it’s rigorous and it must be too onerous for them,” Rubins mentioned within the video. “Science is fabulous — it’s so valuable fun, it makes day by day fun, and we like it. We like doing science in living.” 

Harris expressed her gratitude for the astronauts’ work and extended an invite to them to realize encourage visit the White Home after they return to Earth. 

“Last month I spoke with Astronauts Dr. Shannon Walker and Dr. Kate Rubins aboard the Global Field Jam. They are setting an example for diminutive girls around the field to dream gargantuan, lead with conviction, and to possess a look at themselves because the scientists and astronauts of the following day,” Harris mentioned in a tweet. 

This wasn’t the primary time Harris called the living web page since taking office. In February she called the orbiting laboratory to congratulate NASA astronaut Victor Glover for turning into the primary Sad astronaut to cruise a prolonged-interval mission to the living web page. Glover, who arrived on the ISS on a SpaceX Crew Dragon pill in November, is now four months into his deliberate six-month preserve. 

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