The space doctors

BiographiesMission control: Sushmita RamanujamRadiology specialty registrar at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.Sushmita has worked for the independent UK organisation Space Health Research as first aider in the Mission Control team for analogue missions.Antarctic explorer: Beth HealeyEmergency medicine doctor working in Switzerland.As research MD for the European Space Agency (ESA), Beth spent a winter at the Concordia base in Antarctica, known as “White Mars.”Chief medical officer: Rochelle VelhoClinical teaching fellow with experience in acute medicine, anaesthesia, and intensive care medicine.Rochelle was chief medical officer for the Austrian Space Forum and has participated in expeditions to test space suits in extreme environments such as the Dhofar desert in Oman.How did you get into space research?RV: “I’ve always been interested in space. From the age of 11, my mum used to put me into a summer space camp—it was next to her PhD lab. We built rockets and competed to see…
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