NASA Human Health & Performance Technology Challenges
Event Date:
1/16/2009
Event Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: McNair Hall, Jones Graduate School
Join representatives from NASA in a special one-day event that will enable companies, researchers, entrepreneurs, and individuals to understand how to create partnerships for technology, research, and innovation to address the next generation of NASA spaceflight challenges.
This forum will feature speakers and panel discussions alternating with more informal cross-disciplinary networking sessions with subject area experts and NASA technology transfer personnel. Sessions will include space medicine, space physiology and countermeasures, space vehicle environment, extravehicular activity, and a guest astronaut.
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WHO:
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Participants from NASA, industry, and academia |
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WHAT:
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A Space Exploration technology forum |
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WHERE:
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Shell Auditorium at the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas |
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WHEN:
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January 15th, 2009 |
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WHY:
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This is an opportunity to create partnerships for innovation and technology solutions that will enable the next generation of human spaceflight |
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NASA HUMAN HEALTH & PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES AGENDA
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8:00 AM
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Coffee and Continental Breakfast |
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8:45 AM
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Welcome:
Rice Alliance-Brad Burke, Managing Director
NASA JSC-Jeffrey R. Davis, M.D., Director, Space Life Sciences Directorate |
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9:00 AM
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Panel- “Building Mutually Beneficial Partnerships and Alliances:
NASA’s Need for New Biomedical and Environmental Technologies”
Introduction by NASA/JSC-Judith L. Robinson, Ph.D., Associate Director, Space Life Sciences
NASA-William H. Gerstenmaier, Associate Director, Space Operations Missions Directorate |
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9:45 AM
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Space Medince: Past, Present, and Future Issues
NASA/JSC-J.D. Polk, MD, Chief, Space Medicine Clinical Services |
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10:00 AM
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Networking Session |
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11:00 AM
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Human Adaptation to Space: Space Physiology and Countermeasures
NASA/JSC-Jennifer Fogarty, Ph.D., Space Medicine, Human System Risk Coordination |
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11:45 AM
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Lunch |
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12:30 PM
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Guest Speaker - Astronaut Sunita Williams |
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1:30 PM
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Space Vehicle Environment Past Experience and Future Issues
NASA/JSC-John James, Ph.D. & Torin McCoy, Environmental Factors
NASA/JSC-Neal Zapp, Ph.D., Radiation |
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3:00 PM
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Networking Session |
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3:30 PM
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Extravehicular Activity
NASA/JSC-Michael L. Gernhardt, Ph.D., EVA Physiology, Systems, and Performance |
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4:15 PM
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Approaches and Opportunities for Technology Collaborations
NASA/JSC-Michelle Brekke, Director, Technology Transfer Office |
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4:30 PM
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Thanks and Closing Remarks |
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4:45 PM
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Reception and Networking |
OBJECTIVES AND INVITATION
The objective of this forum is to forge strategic technological partnerships between NASA, industry, and academia for the advancement of human spaceflight. The partnerships that are formed and collaborations that are produced now and in the future add value to NASA and to the nation and create new possibilities for human space exploration at a critical time in this exciting new stage of human spaceflight.
Of course, exploration technologies are not limited only to extra-terrestrial uses. Their development and commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields of health and medicine, consumer products, transportation, public safety, computer technology, and environmental resources.
This special event will bring together innovators, scientists, engineers, physicians, and academicians from inside and outside the aerospace community to focus on human health and performance technology needs to enable human spaceflight. NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Operations, Bill Gerstenmaier, will help kick off the day with a panel examining NASA’s need for new biomedical and environmental technologies, followed by experts in specific discipline areas with ample opportunities for informal discussion and networking. The presentations will include NASA operations, the missions we support, our current capabilities and technologies as well as our future needs as we implement the national Vision for Space Exploration.
Johnson Space Center is committed to collaborative and innovative solutions for the challenges of the future. We invite you to be a part of this frontier work. Find out more at www.nasa.gov.
Special Guest Speaker:
Sunita Williams, NASA Astronaut
Commander, US Navy and Deputy Chief, Astronaut Office, NASA Johnson Space Center
Bio: Sunita Williams was selected by NASA to join the program in June 1998. In December 11, 2006, she launched with the Expedition-14 crew, and established the then world record for females with four spacewalks totaling over 29 hours. After spending time on the International Space Station, she returned to Earth with Expedition-15 on June 22, 2007, spending a total of 195 days in space, setting a new world record for female space travelers.
Who should attend:
- Companies, Industry, & Individuals who want to help develop the next generation of human spaceflight
- Academia and researchers who want to help solve some of the toughest spaceflight challenges
- Entrepreneurs and other industry participants who want to understand opportunities in space exploration
- General public: individuals interested in understanding the challenges and objectives of future spaceflight
Topics Covered:
- Biomedical and environmental technologies
- Space medicine
- Human adaptation to space
- Space physiology and countermeasures
- Space vehicle environment
- Extravehicular activity
- Opportunities and approaches for Technology Collaborations
For a PDF of the Event Brochure, click here.
Click Here for a map to the Jones Graduate School of Management.
Online registration is closed. There is limited walk-up registration at the door.
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