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>> Well Indiana's second

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smallest county is making

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giant leaps in space. Redwire,

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located in the small southern

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Indiana town of Greenville has

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successfully printed the first

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human knee meniscus in space.

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Kylie Veleta, Business of

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Health Reporter here with more

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of that fascinating story,

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renting a human meniscus in

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space?

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>> It doesn't get more

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interesting than this.

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Designed and built by

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Hoosier's in Floyd County, the

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bioprinter is basically a 3D

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printer, but for human tissue.

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We first told you about the 3D

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bioprinter last year when

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Redwire launched it into

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space. The company announced

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it has now successfully 3D

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printed at the International

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Space Station the first human

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knee meniscus, which was just

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brought back to earth by

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astronauts and is now being

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compared to natural human

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cartilage to see how it stacks

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up. The project may sound

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familiar, and 2021 Florida-

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based Redwire acquired Techshot

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which has a legacy in Indiana

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that dates back 35 years. The

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Floyd County operation now

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houses the "In-space

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Manufacturing and Operations"

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business unit for Redwire. The

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goal of the bioprinter is to

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pave the way for printing

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organs in space to help solve

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the problem that there aren't

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enough organs to go around for

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everyone on the transplant

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list. So why space? Well, on

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earth reprinted human tissue

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is so soft that it collapses

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under its own weight into a

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puddle. Well, printing soft

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tissue in space illuminates

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gravity so the structures

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don't collapse and even hollow

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cavities like those in the

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human heart could also be

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printed.

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>> 22 people a day are dying

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on organ donor waiting lists.

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One is too many. We believe

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this process, this road we are

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on, will be a solution to

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solve that. Here at Redwire in

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Greenville Indiana we have a

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facility we call the Payload

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Operations control center,

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which is just our mission

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control that we use to not

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only control our own devices

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that are on board the

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International Space Station,

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but also we have live video

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where we talk directly to the

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astronauts who are conducting

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our work for us. So to have an

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impact like that, again, not

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only on human health around

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the world but also just to

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have an impact on what's

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state-of-the-art for NASA, for

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space research, and have that

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impact from here in Floyd

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County Indiana is just super

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gratifying as a native

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Hoosier.

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>> Now that many mission

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control center where they

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control the devices in space

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from here in Indiana and talk

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to the astronauts, that will

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be featured front and center

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in the new Redwire facility

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soon breaking ground. It's

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being billed just down the

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road in Floyd County. When

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visitors step into the lobby

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the first thing they will see

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is the control center,

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enclosed by glass so they can

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have a window into all the

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space action. A Michigan

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teenager is back on the

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football field thanks to a

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custom-built ankle brace

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created by South Bend based

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TayCo Brace. Is a company I

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first told you about in 2021.

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Take Hill makes braces used by

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22 NFL teams and more than 80

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college athletic programs.

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Take a work with the family of

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Eric Kilburn Junior, because

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the 6'10" sophomore from

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Michigan wears a, listen, size

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23 shoe! The brace fits over

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the cleats instead of inside

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the shoe. Since 2016, TayCo

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Brace has partnered with

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hospitals, nickel practices,

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- athletic trainers nationwide

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to help more than 20,000

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patients recover from ankle

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and hind foot injuries. The

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Indiana University School of

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Medicine giving students

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hands-on training with new

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portable ultrasound systems.

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The Point-of-Care Ultrasound

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is a handheld diagnostic

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imaging tool that can be used

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at the patient's bedside with

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a tablet. Many doctors say

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it's the stethoscope of the

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future that fits in their

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pocket. The IU School of

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Medicine is one of only a few

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medical schools in the nation

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with this unique training as

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part of its curriculum.

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>> Back to the Redwire story,

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fascinating company doing some

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prequel stuff, and they got

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more in the pipeline, right?

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>> Is really another cool

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Indiana connection their next

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partner is Lily and they're

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working to make hardware they

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will send to space of course

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to make drug crystals, then

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said the drug crystals back

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down to earth and Lily puts

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them in vastly get bigger and

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bigger to grow these crystals