STP114 - Human Hibernation and Anti-Radiation Pills? - The Future of Space Medicine - with Dr. Vanessa Farsadaki

Another mind blowing week. This week we talk to Dr. Vanessa Farsadaki to find out all about the field of Space Medicine. What is it today and what will it be tomorrow?

Dr. Vanessa Farsadaki:
https://www.instagram.com/astro_vanessa/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/farsadaki/ 

This Week’s Launches:
Wed 26 Oct 2022: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan: Roscosmos: Soyuz 2.1a: Progress MS-21:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/5306
No Video Available

Fri 28 Oct 2022: Vandenberg SFB, California: SpaceX: Falcon 9 Block 5: Starlink Group 4-31:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7029

Sat 29 Oct 2022: Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 2D: Shiyan 20C:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7032
No Video Available:

Mon 31 Oct 2022: Wenchang Satellite Launch Center, China: CASC: Long March 5B: Mengtian:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2805

Tue 1 Nov 2022: Kennedy Space Center, Florida: SpaceX: Falcon Heavy: USSF-44:
https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/1151

This Week’s Other News:
James Webb Space Telescope snaps new, super-spooky image of Pillars of Creation:
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-pillars-creation-miri

Watch Europe's Solar Orbiter get up close and personal with the sun's corona:
https://www.space.com/closest-video-sun-corona-solar-orbiter

NASA asteroid surveyor snaps stunning views of Earth and moon on way to Jupiter's Trojans:
https://www.space.com/earth-moon-photos-from-lucy-asteroid-mission

The moon is enchanting in new photos from NASA's Lucy asteroid mission:
https://www.space.com/lucy-asteroid-mission-moon-photos-first-flyby

NASA's Voyager project scientist Ed Stone retires after 50 years:
https://www.space.com/nasa-voyager-project-scientist-ed-stone-retires

Powerful new Earth-monitoring satellite JPSS-2 to study weather's 'butterfly effect’:
https://www.space.com/noaa-weather-satellite-jpss-2-earth-science

Opportunity Mars rover leader Steve Squyres on 'Good Night Oppy' film, giving up Saturn:
https://www.space.com/mars-opportunity-rover-leader-good-night-oppy

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Emily Carney

A veteran of the United States Navy, Carney became a freelance writer back in 2008 and started a blog called This Space Available, which is now hosted by the National Space Society. In 2022 she started working as Content Director for Celestis – the first company to have successfully conducted Memorial Spaceflight Missions.

In 2011, Carney founded a facebook group Space Hipsters. Originally intended to be a place to share news and insights amongst friends, this community has now grown to close to 30,000 members including astronauts, engineers, scientists, historians and space flight enthusiasts from around the globe.

NSS Blog: https://space.nss.org/category/this-space-available/
Medium Blog: https://emilycarneyspace.medium.com/  

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Dave Giles

Giles is a singer/songwriter from London, England who has always had a passion for space flight. Since his early years he’s been looking skyward and though he ended up wielding a guitar for a living, space exploration is alway on his mind and one of his most popular songs is about astronaut Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man On The Moon’.

In 2019 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Giles visited all of the crewed space vehicles flown by NASA from Freedom 7 to the Space Shuttle Orbiters.

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