Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 3:30PM
The Aerospace Medical Association offers three scholarship opportunities to financially assist those pursuing Aerospace Medicine training programs. Deadlines for applying for these applications are rapidly approaching. Scholarship descriptions and application requirements are listed at our 'events' page and can be found here http://www.asma.org/pdf/asma-scholarships.pdf.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 10:59AM The December edition of ESA's Human Spaceflight and Operations Science Newsletter is now available. More information can be found at the following web page.
esa, newsletter Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 5:12AM
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.
Early bird registration is £81 (£57 for students) before 1 Apr 2012. Further details and registration arrangements will be presented on the conference page of this site in coming weeks.
UK Space Environments Conference
“UK Research & Education for Space & Terrestrial Benefit”
16 - 17 June, 2012
Satrosphere Science Centre
Aberdeen
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 4:36PM ESA’s Education Office offers university students the opportunity to perform experiments in microgravity, using the ZARM drop tower in Bremen, Germany.
The 'Drop Your Thesis!' programme gives selected university students the opportunity to develop, as part of their research programme or Masters / PhD thesis, an experiment to be carried out during 5 launches at the Bremen site.
The ZARM facility is one of the best of its type in Europe and attracts scientists from around the world. It features a 146 m high tower surrounded by numerous support facilities and laboratories. The experiment payload is integrated into a capsule which is allowed to fall freely, attaining microgravity levels as low as 10-6 g for up to 9.3 s. The level of microgravity is better than that achieved in parabolic flights, or even on orbital platforms (e.g. the International Space Station). In addition, drop towers are extremely versatile and allow the experiment set-up to be adjusted between consecutive launches.
Interested teams from ESA Member States should register on the ESA Education Office's project portal and upload their completed application, by 13 February 2012. Proposals from ESA’s Cooperating States are also encouraged. The proposals received will be evaluated by a review board, which will select the winning team. This team will perform its experiment during ESA’s fourth Drop your Thesis! campaign, to be held in Bremen for three weeks during the autumn of 2012.
The team selected to participate in the 'Drop Your Thesis!' programme will be supported by ESA’s Education Office, ZARM engineers and members of the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA). ESA will offer financial support to cover part of the cost of the experiments, travel and accommodation.
For further information go to this link or visit http://www.esa.int
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 8:39AM 
During the course of the summer representatives from a number of UK organisations interested in or currently participating in space biomedicine activities met with the aim of discussing collaboration. An agreement was signed on the 1st June at King’s College London which stated that a UK Space Biomedicine Consortium had been established to examine mechanisms for collaboration and whether and if so, how a national space biomedicine strategy could be pursued.