On The Space Show for Wednesday, 9 July 2025:
Medicine and the Moon:
A Moon Village Association event introduced and moderated by Dr Marc Jurblum, Doctor of Psychiatry, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.
Speakers:
Prof. Gordon Cable, Specialist in Aerospace Medicine, University of Adelaide.
Dr Omar Eduardo Rodriguez, Neuro-radiology Registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Dr Rowena Christiansen, Medical Educator, University of Melbourne Medical School.
Quinlan Buchlak, Data Scientist in Space Medicine.
Topics discussed:
* Oxygen toxicity
* Gut health
* Planetary protection
* Human evolution
* Fluid-filled EVA suit
* Altered mental state
* The “overview effect”.
(Recorded by The Space Show at Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne)
Australian Space Industry 2025 — Part 9:
* Lunaria One Moon plant funding
* Aussie payloads and technology on the SpaceX Transporter 14 rideshare mission
* Gilmour Space and Japan’s Space BD announce a new collaboration
* Winnebago.
(Audio insert courtesy Rocket Lab)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World:
The Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery is to be moved from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, to Space Center Houston, the official visitor center for NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.