The Space Show

2023.05.31 | The challenges of clinical medicine in space with Dr Rowena Christiansen

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On The Space Show for Wednesday, 31 May 2023:


Space Show News

As this episode of The Space Show was broadcast live to air, there were a record 17 people orbiting the Earth, from five countries. The previous record, set during the privately funded Inspiration4 mission in September 2021, was 14 people.

The record count was comprised of the following four seperate crews:

  • Shenzhou 16 (three people) — Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao, now aboard China's Tiangong space station.
  • Shenzhou 15 (three people) — Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu, who have been aboard Tiangong since November 2022 and who are expected to return to Earth in early June.
  • Expedition 69 (seven people) — Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Andrey Fedyaev of Russia's federal space corporate Roscosmos; astronauts Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg of NASA; and Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the International Space Station (ISS).
  • Axiom-2 (four people) — Axiom Space astronaut Peggy Whitson, private astronaut John Shoffner and Saudi Arabian astronauts Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, who departed the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Freedom" to return to Earth on Tuesday (May 30).


    • The challenges of clinical medicine in space:

    * Preliminary comments by Skylab 2 astronaut Dr Joe Kerwin, the second medical doctor to fly in space. Taken from an exclusive interview recorded at the Space Association of Australia, May 2023 public meeting in South Melbourne.

    * A presentation by Dr Rowena Christiansen, a Medical Educator at the Melbourne Medical School at the Moon Village Association 2019 meeting, Deakin Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne


    The official announcement of Chinese crewed lunar landing objectives by 2030


    Planet Earth Season 4 — Episode 53:

    * Tropics 3 & 4 launch with Rocket Lab

    * RainCube

    * Freshwater lakes dwindling

    * U.S. Space Council reports from USGS, NOAA and the Department of Agriculture

    * MARVEL

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    The Space ShowBy Andrew Rennie for the Space Association of Australia