These Astronauts Are Getting Their Medical Training From Playing Video Games
Also: Forget the Moon, NASA’s next big mission is a lot closer to home Perhaps just as significantly, Polaris Dawn aims to break new ground in studying human health, with the crew conducting dozens of science and research experiments to study the effects of spaceflight and space radiation on the human body. However, among the four-person crew on the private space mission, there’s just one member with specialized expertise in human biology and medical care: Anna Menon, SpaceX’s lead space operations engineer, who worked for seven years at NASA as a biomedical flight controller for the International Space Station....