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Jun 1, 2022

Imagine becoming an astronaut, and after traveling back from space, making it your life’s work to study and solve the health problems posed by deep space travel. Dr. Jay Buckey is doing just that in the Space Medicine Innovations Laboratory at Dartmouth and a professor in both the medical school and engineering...


May 25, 2022

Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles is an engineering professor at Texas A&M University researching ways to further human space flight by designing a novel space suit. Her lab’s recent work to develop the SmartSuit concept combines soft-robotics, biometric monitoring, and advances in material sciences to bring Extravehicular...


May 18, 2022

Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, working in both the Emergency Department and the Center for Space Medicine. In the Translational Research for Space Health (TRISH), he is working with NASA and commercial astronaut crews to acquire and study health data from space travel. He also shares...


May 11, 2022

Dr. Christopher Mason was a leader on the pioneering NASA Twin Study. He wears many hats as he works as a professor and researcher at Weill Cornell Medical School. Just after the Inspiration4 Launch in September 2021, he sat down with us to talk about his work mapping human genomes and how space changes us. Much of our...