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Dr. Michael A. Schmidt has been named the recipient of the 2026 Joseph P. Kerwin MD Award, one of the aerospace medicine field’s highest honors, recognizing groundbreaking contributions to space medicine and human physiology research during spaceflight.
Our video is an allegorical conversation between Prometheus, the Titan who defied Zeus and gave humans the gift of fire, and the human spirit, represented by Galileo Galilei, whose 15th century exploration of celestial bodies was the initial step in our achievement of another transformative triumph of mankind: our ability to leave the earth and travel to -and establish human settlements on -other celestial bodies.
Sending Icarus into Space(and Getting Him Safely Back Home Again)Excerpted from Gender and the GenomeVolume 1, Number 2 ‘‘Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way, in case…
We are going to outer space so who’s better to handle this, men or women?