Long-term human space migration has always been tempered by the challenge of a microgravity environment. This webinar, moderated by BE’s Senior Technical Advisor, Steve Hoeser, will focus on the pathways forward for mitigating the effects of microgravity. Panelists will discuss the value of revisiting investigations into spin gravity as an avenue to address the microgravity problem.
Steve is a Senior Space Systems Engineer, Architect, Space Habitat and Reusable Launch Systems subject matter expert. He is currently has applied his 40+ years of space and launch systems experience to leverage and expand human commercial and exploration activities in space.
As Deputy Chief Scientist, Donna Roberts assists developing long-term research goals for the ISS National Lab. In addition to her background as a radiology and radiological science professor, Roberts served as principal investigator for several NASA-funded studies investigating the impact of spaceflight on the human brain during long stays in microgravity.
Dr. Dana Levin is the Chief of Space Medicine at Vast Space and has dedicated his life to supporting human health in space and other extreme environments. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Aerospace Medicine and has more than a decade of experience caring for humans on all 7 continents, beneath the sea, and in space. At Vast he is part of a team building the first commercial space station and developing artificial gravity systems for longterm human habitation of space. Before this he worked for NASA as a Clinical Scientist for the Human Research Program developing methods to assess medical risk for deep space missions and designing the medical systems to mitigate them. He was the clinical lead for NASA's artificial intelligence clinical decision support task force.
As a terrestrial physician Dana maintains an active clinical practice in Emergency Medicine and holds faculty appointments with UC Irvine, the Massachusetts General Hospital, and Baylor College of Medicine. He has cared for patients in every clinical setting from single physician coverage rural hospitals in Wyoming to tertiary care medical centers in some of the largest US cities. He has been the field physician for high-altitude expeditions, underwater archeological expeditions, research stations in Antarctica, and every environment in between.Chief Architect at Gravitics Inc, Executive Chairman Oisin Biotechnologies, Inc. & President/Trustee, Space Studies Institute.
Ted Hall holds professional and doctoral degrees in architecture (M.Arch. 1981, Arch.D. 1994) from the University of Michigan. His career took a turn before completing the M.Arch. when he joined the Architecture and Planning Research Laboratory (APRL) in 1980 as a software developer for computer-aided design and building information modeling. He now works in the U-M Digital Media Commons as an extended reality (XR) software developer and consultant.
When his stint with the APRL ended in 1986, he entered the Doctoral Program in Architecture and finally emerged in 1994 with a dissertation on “The Architecture of Artificial-Gravity Environments for Long-Duration Space Habitation.” Space architecture with a focus on artificial gravity remains his after-hours avocation. He continues to publish occasional papers and participate in events such as this. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), was a founding member of its Space Architecture Technical Committee (SATC) in 2008, and chaired the SATC during 2010-2014.