2025.07.09 | Medicine on the Moon and beyond…

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.