THE CULTURE OF SPACE

AERO | SPACE | MOON | MARS | BEYOND

Exhibition | Performance
Yuri's Night | Zero Gravity Arts Consortium | NASA Ames | Moffett Field, USA | 2007

Field Simulations | Expedition Analogues
EVA Med Evac Sim | Houghton Mars Project | Devon Island linkup to Strasbourg | 2006

Academic Research | Presentations
2nd International Space & Society Conference | ESA | The Netherlands | 2007
Directors Colloquium | NASA Ames Research Centre | Moffett Field, USA | 2006
SPACE SOON | Art & Human Space Flight | The Roundhouse | London, UK | 2006
Summer Session Program | International Space University | Strasbourg, FR | 2006
ISDC06 | International Space Development Congress | Los Angeles, USA | 2006


Launching ourselves
If the space sector has defined itself, and I want to go into outer space, how does one negotiate such a grand vision these days?


L-R: ISU SSP06 "Grand Visions" workshop at the International Space University, Strasbourg France 2006. US Astronaut "Buzz" Aldrin with ISU students; Sarah Jane Pell at Space Soon: Art & Human Spaceflight Conference, The Roundhouse, London UK 2006. Photograph Alexander Van Dijk.


EVA Med Evac Sim, HMP RS August 7, 2006
In summary, the 2006 HMP Lunar Medical Contingency Simulation demonstrated that an injured suited crewmember could be safely extracted from difficult terrain, similar to what might be expected in a lunar EVA, and transported to a remote site for diagnostic and therapeutic care. A number of issues developed unexpectedly during the sim that challenged the crew and sim planners. However, the team was able to complete the mission, which involved real-time communications and coordination between members of the Exploration Payload Operations Center at NASA-Johnson Space Center (ExPOC), International Space University (ISU) in Strasbourg, France, and the Payload Tele-Operations Center (PTOC) in Montreal, Canada.

In addition to those organizations mentioned above, coordination and implementation of the exercise on Devon Island was carried out by participants from Simon Fraser University, Hamilton-Sundstrand, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Colorado (Boulder), Rocky Mountain Rescue, the Canadian Space Agency, NASA-Johnson Space Center, NASA-Ames Research Center and Mars Institute.


Image 1-5: Real-time backroom medical support (SSP06 Life Science Dept.), International Space University in Strasbourg, France. Video stills Sarah Jane Pell. Image 6: HMP-2006 Rick Scheuring and Pascal Lee EVA crew simulating accident and emergency response, Houghton Mars Project in Canada. Photo Nikki Wilkinson.


Neurovestibular | Neurolab Part 1& Part 2

L-R: Electro-oculography (Spin the chair experiments!) Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (AU), Tim Roediger (DE) Shabnam Oslatti (US) Visual and neurovestibular distubance tests, Shabnam Oslatti (US), Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (AU) & Dr. Jeffrey Jones NASA JSC, (US); ISU SSP06 Life Sciences Practical Laboratory: Strasbourg, France 2006.


Tethering | Extra Vehicular Activity Sim | Astronaut Robert Thirsk (CA)

L-R: Tim Roediger (DE) Dr. Sarah Jane Pell (AU), Dr. Robert Thirsk (CA) and Xavier Giralt (ES); ISU SSP06 Life Sciences Practical Laboratory: Strasbourg, France 2006.