NASA SYMPOSIUM: The “Spaceflight for Everybody” virtual symposium, an event aimed at communicating the current state of NASA spaceflight health knowledge, will be held Monday to Wednesday. NASA TV, the agency’s website, and the NASA app will offer live coverage each day, including an American Sign Language translator.

The event will highlight NASA’s operational medicine and biomedical research findings helping to establish how the human body adapts to the environment of space during missions. Other health and medical topics will include future spaceflight participation goals for a more diverse group of space explorers.

Speakers include NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy; Kathryn Lueders, associate administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington, NASA chief health and medical officer Dr. J.D. Polk; Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, NASA astronaut Dr. Serena Auñón-Chancellor and former NASA administrator Charles Bolden.

Media, scientists, researchers, healthcare workers – especially those interested in space medicine – and others who would like to join the virtual chat should register online each day by visiting https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/spaceflightforeverybody.

For more than 20 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, advancing scientific knowledge and demonstrating new technologies, making research breakthroughs not possible on Earth.

As a global endeavor, 246 people from 19 countries have visited the unique microgravity laboratory that has hosted more than 3,000 research and educational investigations from researchers in 108 countries and areas.

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