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Date, Time & Location:     

Tuesday, 05/03/2016   12:10 – 1:00 p.m.  

Kleberg Auditorium

 

Speaker:                                

John B. Charles, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist

NASA Human Research Program

Johnson Space Center

 

Lecture  Title:      

“So You Want to Go to Mars? Biomedical Aspects of

Early Interplanetary Expeditions”

Learning Objectives:  Participants will understand:

·        Why interplanetary missions occur so infrequently

and take so long.

·        How actual space missions are different from fictional

space missions in the movies.

·        Physiological and psychological challenges of interplanetary

missions and what is being done to overcome them.

 

 

We encourage BCM students, faculty and staff to attend the CSM elective lecture series “Introduction to

Human Space Exploration and Medicine.”  Please contact me if you need additional information about this

presentation.

 

Thank you,

 

Nancy Gibbins

Center for Space Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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