Hosted by Bill Gardiner, chairman of the National Space Society’s Space Health and Medicine Committee, this session will delve into the physical and psychological health and wellbeing considerations of people living and traveling in space.

Mars Settlement, Not Just Marstopia. Vera Mulyani (Spaceport LA)

Designing Aesthetics into Space Environments. Ayse Oren

Building A Lunar Base as the Foundation for a Future Mars Settlement. Joshua Castro (Instarz Technologies)

NSS/NASA Ames Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation

The Mt. Everest Colony: Testing a Mars Colony Prototype. Greg Manos (Filmmakers Turned Technologists)

Virtual Reality Tools for Serious Spaceflight: How Space Advocacy Orgs Can Work Together. James Burk (The Mars Society)

Overcoming the Health Barriers to Space-New Advances – Genetic Engineering for Improved Human Physiological Response to Spaceflght. Dr. Karolina Chwalek (Harvard Medical School)

NASA’s Efforts to Manage Health Risks for Space Exploration and Risk Mitigation Research. Bill Gardiner (Analytech Division of Laboratory Consulting Sources, Inc.)

Destination Mars: A New Approach to Selecting Astronauts for LDEMs. Katsiaryna Snytkova

NSS/NASA Ames Student Space Settlement Contest Presentation

Training for Astronautics and life on Mars. Dr. Susan Ip-Jewell (Mars Academy USA)

Opening Up Space to the Common Person. Rachel Lyons (Space for Humanity)

How to Be a Better Pro-Space Advocate. Art Harman (The Coalition to Save Manned Space Exploration)

Panel: Overcoming the Health Barriers to Spaceflight for All – In Space and Here on Earth. Bill Gardiner, Dr. Karolina Chwalek, Katsiaryna Snytkova, Rachel Lyons, and Art Harman.