2025.07.09 | Medicine on the Moon and beyond…

10/07/2025 47 min

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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.

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