FALL 2013
THE A4H NEWS
Professional Pursuits
B E L O W A4H Members gathered for a photo-op with the XCOR Lynx Mark
II mockup during the 2013 NSRC in Broomfield, Colorado.
Flight Member Jason Reimuller stayed very busy leading Project PoSSUM suborbital flight-based research. Jason gave related talks at NSRC, AIAA Tech Talk, Citizen Science and Space Hacker Workshop (the latter two hosted by the Silicon Valley Space Center). Jason also held a PoSSUM workshop at the 2013 CEDAR Workshop and is now preparing to host the 2013 Suborbital Imaging and Remote Sensing Conference at NASA Ames in December. The NASA Flight Opportunities Program gave Jason two awards to fly PoSSUM payloads, the most recent announced last June. Flight Member Joe Palaia served as commander for the Mars Society’s 13th Expedition to the Flashline Mars
Mindy Howard attended SIRIUS Astronaut Training for a
Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island, Canada
sensorimotor human factors course to prepare for spatial
during the month of July. He and his team were there to
disorientation, motion sickness and other space adaptation issues (see also this issue’s Industry Leader). Flight Members Jose Hurtado and Ben Corbin joined Kristine Ferrone at Survival Systems USA for underwater emergency egress training that taught how to remain calm in the life-threatening situation of a submerged, inverted vehicle. In addition, Associate Member Karina Descartin trained at the NASTAR Center’s Aerospace Medicine Lab Course for Physicians, which included not only altitude chamber and centrifuge sessions but also spatial disorientation and night vision training to demonstrate the physiological impacts of flight. Associate Member Paul McCall and Flight Member Luis Saraiva also trained at the NASTAR Center as part of a UTMB research study sponsored by the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. Flight Members Luis Zea and Jason Reimuller, with Associate Member Bruce Davis, participated in the 4th Annual Emerging Space Industry Leaders Workshop (ESIL04), which was supported by the FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation. Held at Sierra Nevada Corporation, the focus of this year’s workshop
A B O V E Associate Member Karina Descartin prepares for a simulated aircraft ejection during a NASTAR Center aerospace medicine lab course.
was microgravity research and suborbital market analysis.
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