NASA Humand Health & Performance Centre

Founded in October 2010, the NHHPC is a global convener of government, industry, academic, and non-profit organizations that support the advancement of human health and performance innovations for space flight, commercial aviation, and challenging environments on Earth. Our member organizations participate in face-to-face workshops, webcasts, and virtual working groups to address issues, share best practices, and formulate collaborative projects in the areas of innovation; education and inspiration; human health; research and technology development; performance, human factors, and human system engineering; and environment and habitability. Our goals are to:

• Advance human system research and technology, process, and practice innovations
• Facilitate collaborative projects that advance human spaceflight capabilities and address national and global human health and performance needs
• Integrate human health and performance efforts and results across NHHPC member organizations
• Provide a resource for integration and coordination within NASA for proposals, risk assessments, and requirements to inform the human exploration missions and technology needs.

For more information including details of our forthcoming workshop visit the NHHPC homepage.

Inaugural UK Space Environments Conference

Aberdeen will play host to the inaugural UK Space Environments Conference on 16 and 17 June 2012. Leading UK and international researchers from the fields of space biomedicine, astrobiology, astrophysics and astrochemistry will present and discuss details of their work and plans for a UK future in space.

Dr Jeff Davis, NASA's Director of Space Life Science and Medical Operations will present on the topic of collaboration for space and terrestrial benefit and provide an opportunity for delegates to discuss human space flight topics with one of the world's leading experts in this field.  There will also be presentations from the likes of Maj Tim Peake, the UK's representative ESA Astronaut and Prof Charles Cockell, one of the UK's leading astrobiologists.

Further details and registration arrangements see the conference page of this site.
 
UK Space Environments Conference
“UK Research & Education for Space & Terrestrial Benefit”
16 - 17 June, 2012
Satrosphere Science Centre
Aberdeen

3rd European Space Tourism Conference:Open for Business

On the 19th June 2012, the 3rd European Space Tourism Conference:Open for Business will be held by the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.

Space tourism is now big business. Tens of millions of dollars have been paid by customers, queuing up to spend time in space. Space Adventures has been operating for over a decade, XCOR and Excalibur Almaz are rolling out their vehicles, and Virgin Galactic is in the final stages of certification in the US – the top management of all four will be here, as well as passengers from the first three.

Spaceport America has opened in New Mexico, Spaceport Sweden hopes to be the first to do so in Europe while Curaçao will offer a Caribbean base – the top management of all three will be at the conference as will the lawyer helping Spaceport Sweden negotiate the regulatory corridors in Brussels.

This conference will provide delegates with up to date information concerning 'New Space', networking opportunities and the forum for discussion on hot industry topics.

You can register online, by email to conference@aerosociety.com or by calling +44 (0)20 7670 4345.

UKSEDS 2012 Annual Conference

This year’s UKSEDS conference will be held at the University of Kent on the weekend of the 31st March – 1st April, and will be hosted by their Kent branch: SpaceSoc.

• Kent University – 31st March/ 1st April
• Two days of talks on everything from astrobiology, space planes, colonisation, rockets and our most successful projects of the year so far.
• Exhibitions from industry leaders including; HE Space, Vega, AspireSpace and many more.
• UKSEDS AGM – election of next years committee.
• Social fun!

For further information visit the UKSEDS homepage here

Mars field simulation, Morocco 2013, First Announcement

The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) will be conducting a 1-month Mars Analog Simulation in the northern Sahara in February 2013 in cooperation with the Ibn-Battuta Center at the Univ. of Marrakesh, Morocco. The First Announcement for international participation for this field mission has been published and a more detailed AO (Announcement of Opportunity) will be released by the end of March.

Submissions will be considered for experiments to be conducted on-site or tele-operated from a home institution or the Mission Support Center in Austria.

For general information concerning OeWF and the recent Mars-Morooco recce visit the OeWF site.

or e-mail Dr Gernot  Grömer on gernot.groemer@oewf.org