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Inside a spacecraft cabin, two individuals float in microgravity while interacting with electronic devices secured to a workstation. One person is leaning over a control surface, using a touchscreen device, while another reviews information on a tablet. Their hair and equipment are suspended due to weightlessness, and the surrounding environment features sleek white panels, seats, and harnesses typical of a crewed space capsule.

Learn how Translational Research Institute of Space Health is working to solve the health challenges of human deep-space exploration.

A SpaceX rocket carrying another spacecraft into orbit.

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Out of the lab and into orbit: new TRISH-selected Baylor space health research

July 22, 2024 astronauts, MIT, NASA, Space Medicine

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health is positioned to leverage top minds and research institutions in health and technology.

An astronaut taking a space walk with the earth behind them

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Now launching: Space health

September 5, 2023 NASA, Translational Research Institute for Space Health

Learn how the Translational Research Institute for Space Health at Baylor College of Medicine is helping to advance deep-space journeys.

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What the first American astronauts taught us about living in space

March 27, 2018 astronauts, NASA, Project Mercury, Research

NASA’s Project Mercury was the United States’ first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians and

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Throwback Thursday: Outer space

July 21, 2016 Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. David Hilmers, Dr. William T. Butler, History, Houston, NASA, Nicole Blanton, Throwback Thursday

To the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” children often answer, “a doctor” or “an astronaut.” In this photo from