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Preparation of Space Experiments Vlog

16/9/2020

 

Vladimir Pletser

Director of Space Training Operations, Blue Abyss; European Space Agency (Retd); Chinese Academy of Sciences (Retd); InnovaSpace Advisory Board Member

Congratulations to Editor Vladimir Pletser and all the authors who contributed to this interesting open-access book entitled Preparations of Space Experiments, which was published this week. Spend a few minutes watching Vladimir as he summarises the contents of each chapter, written by world-leading researchers who have designed and prepared science experiments on microgravity platforms, including aircraft parabolic flights, in preparation for subsequent spaceflight.

ASES - HUMANITARIAN FLIGHTS

30/8/2020

 

Mary Upritchard

InnovaSpace Co-Founder & Admin Director

Uma rede de aviadores e proprietários de aeronaves, liderados pelo Cmte. João Madruga, estabeleceu em 2004 o apoio Aéreo em Situações Especiais ou ASES, em inglês Air CarE in Special Situations (ACES). No ASES, pilotos voluntários realizam voos humanitários em aeronaves de pequeno porte, como o Piper PA-28 ou o Cirrus SR-22, levando e trazendo passageiros que precisam de avaliação clínica ou tratamento médico longe de casa. Em um país continental como o Brasil, isso se torna ainda mais importante, pois, para uma consulta em centros clínicos de referência, como o complexo do Hospital de Amor de Barretos, São Paulo, Brasil, por exemplo, um paciente poderá levar mais de 12 horas por via rodoviária.
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In 2004, the assistance organisation ASES (translates as Air Care in Special Situations) was established, led by Cdr. João Madruga and a network of aviators and aircraft owners. At ASES, volunteer pilots conduct humanitarian flights in small aircraft, such as the Piper PA-28 or Cirrus SR-22, flying passengers who are in need of clinical evaluation or medical treatment far from their homes. In a continental-sized country like Brazil, this service becomes crucially important, as patients requiring consultations in reference clinical centres, such as the Hospital de Amor de Barretos complex, in São Paulo, Brazil, may require a journey of more than 12 hours by road to their treatment destination.
O coordenador da rede, porém, explica que esses voos não caracterizam um transporte aeromédico, as ditas ambulâncias aéreas, para o qual a aeronave deve ser adaptada com a adição de equipamentos médicos, necessários para a monitorização e o tratamento de pacientes durante o percurso. Nesses voos, há a presença de uma equipe de saúde treinada para realizar assistência médica no transporte aéreo, diferentemente dos voos do ASES, no qual há apenas o piloto, o passageiro com tratamento agendado e um acompanhante ou familiar. 
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As explained by the network coordinator, however, these flights are not classified as aeromedical transport - known as 'air ambulances', which require special adaptation, with the addition of the medical equipment necessary for the monitoring and treatment of patients during flight. These flights always have the presence of a health team trained to perform medical assistance in air transport, which is not the case with the ASES flights, for which the passenger list includes only the pilot, the person with scheduled treatment and a companion or family member. 
A InnovaSpace tem o ASES como membro de sua rede de Global Partners & Friends, e apoia essa iniciativa, através da consultoria médica remota (segunda opinião), realizada pela Dra. Thais Russomano, CEO da empresa, a qual tem se dedicado a fazer de forma voluntária a avaliação clínica do paciente para o transporte, uma atividade que vem desempenhando desde o início das atividades do ASES. A InnovaSpace congratula esse trabalho humanitário realizando pela equipe ASES. Segundo o João Madruga, esse é inquestionavelmente um relevante serviço à sociedade, pois o transporte aéreo desses passageiros diminui a distância entre o lar e o tratamento.
Para conhecer mais sobre esse magnífico trabalho de apoio aéreo gratuito a passageiros, visite www.asesbrasil.com.br
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We at InnovaSpace are proud to have ASES as a member of our Global Partners & Friends network, and support this initiative through the giving of remote medical consultancy (second opinion), carried out by our CEO Dr.Thais Russomano. From the very beginning of the ASES activities, Thais has dedicated her time on a voluntary basis to give clinical evaluations of the patients requiring transportation.
InnovaSpace congratulates the ASES team for their humanitarian work. According to João Madruga, this is unquestionably a relevant service to society, as the transport by air of these passengers considerably reduces the distance and time of travel between their home and treatment location.
To learn more about this magnificent work of free air support to passengers, visit www.asesbrasil.com.br

The Road to Aerospace Medicine

5/8/2020

 

Author: Thaynara Vicente B Kurrle

Successful International Baccalaureate Diploma candidate; Ketedralskolan, Linköping, Sweden & now studying medicine

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For as long as I can remember, I have always been flying around. My mother was a flight attendant, my father was an Air Force mechanic and we spent most of our lives living in an Air Force base. To board, deplane and wake up with the noise of helicopters and jets was part of the routine, which did not make it less special to me.
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When I was 17 years-old, my family was transferred to Sweden and I had to decide what I wanted to do with my life. I was only sure about 2 things: I wanted to help and serve people, and I loved airplanes and the life in the air. How was I supposed to combine these two? I had no idea. Most people did not see a link between these two points, but I knew that I had to find a way, otherwise, I would never feel complete. If I would imagine myself permanently away from jets and airports or not in direct contact with people in need, a huge void would open in my chest; it just was not right, “either, or” was not an option to me.

In a Spring afternoon of 2018, I overheard some fighter pilots telling stories about accidents they had witnessed: a smashed jaw during the ejection after a period of temporal distortion, tunnelled vision, and a total blackout during the centrifuge training. Then, it hit me, those people were the link, they were the ones who connected those amazing machines to the human factor, they were the ones I wanted to help.

I started to research, and I still remember the first words that caught my eyes: “flight-surgeon”, “AsMA”, “Aerospace Medicine”. Upon reading the last mentioned, my heart dropped. I had found it. I had found an entire field and community of people as curious as me and that shared the same passions. And at the end of that year I was given the chance to get in touch with it more directly.

To graduate the International Baccalaureate (a different kind of high school), every student must carry out an independent research about a topic they would be interested in studying in university, our first research paper. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, I wanted to understand the symptoms and episodes I had heard about countless times, I wanted to understand what that so feared G. was. I read all the books about aerospace medicine fundamentals and flight physiology I could find, I started to talk to every single crew member and engineer I could reach, but the understanding of the symptoms through medical lenses was still missing. Another important thing that was missing was a supervisor, who would be willing to help me to start the research. Basically, the Science Department of my school did not understand what I was going for, how I was going to do it and no teacher was exactly thrilled with the idea of supervising a student they had no idea of how to help. It was even hard to decide whether to classify it as a Biology or Physics project!

​It was in the spring of 2019 that Maria, who was not even my teacher, heard about the project and was willing to supervise me, but I would have to find help from doctors outside; as she put it “You have chosen a very, very specific topic, so you need a very specific knowledge because I can’t tell you how to start”. And here we go again on another quest for a supervisor. And this quest is what made me fall completely in love with the scientific community.

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Doctors who had never met me sent me PDFs and articles and two of them (thank you so much, Dr Suto and Dr Lia) sent me the contact of Dr Thais Russomano, who was the fairy godmother of my Extended Essay. She taught me how to structure and organise a research based on the study of the literature, how to select it, how to understand the state of the art of that field. It was more challenging than I was expecting but it made all the difference. Thanks to all her feedbacks and articles I was finally able to understand where I was and how far I would be able to go (unfortunately not as far as I wanted due to school limitations). But now I knew what I was doing. I wanted to understand the effects of the G-acceleration on the human cardiac system and how the Anti-G Straining Manoeuvre diminished its effects. All I needed for the school to approve it was: at least 7 volunteer pilots with enough availability to measure their blood pressure while doing loops 2 or 3 times for a random girl’s school project, piece of cake right?
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Dynamic Flight Simulator at the Flight Physiological Centre in Linköping, Sweden
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Captain Fórneas after qualification in the Dynamic Flight Simulator
To my heart-stopping surprise I got all of them, and they were all mostly glad to help me and to send me papers, videos, and pictures from their own centrifuge trainings (thank you so much Major Forneas and Colonel Leite). Nevertheless, to my despair the data collected contradicted my primary hypothesis! Great!

That is when my dear friend Jonas comes into scene. He worked at SAAB, the company which was developing the new Brazilian Grippen, state-of-the-art fighter jet, and offered to arrange me an interview with a test-pilot. It was by far, one of the greatest days of my life!

While we were waiting for Andreas to finish his debriefing, Jonas took me on a tour around the Flight Test Centre. I had always wanted to see the Grippen; only one was ready so far, it had flown only once and only authorised personal could see or get close to it, or at least I had been told. Jonas opened the hangar’s door and there it was! The mysterious Grippen and I was one of the few civils, who had nothing to do with the project whatsoever, who had been able not only to see it but to climb up to its cockpit! Right there, I knew I had made the right choice.
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Andreas, the test-pilot, still wearing his anti-G suit, spent a long time answering my endless questions, and by the time I finished the interview I understood where I had gone wrong and the kind of data that I needed to prove my new hypothesis right! And again, I was mesmerised by how the scientific community mobilised itself to help an enthusiast like me, who was still not even part of it.
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Touring the Flight Test Centre

From Mars To Airplanes - Learning Can Be Fun!

16/5/2020

 
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Edgard Vinagre

Just your average 12-year-old who loves to build model airplanes...

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Hi, my name is Edgard, I'm 12 years old and at the age of 9 years I participated for the first time in the InnovaSpace project "Kids2Mars", asking the question 'why is Mars red?'. I'm Brazilian, but I have lived in Germany since 2009 in the city of Göttingen. I'm now finishing sixth grade, and my 3 favourite subjects are Mathematics, Experiment Workshops, and Natural Sciences - oh and in fourth place comes English!
Since September 2019, I have been participating in the Flugmodellbau Project (model airplane construction) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) School Lab, building model airplanes - Macht Spaß! (it's fun!) Too bad it ended just before Christmas. But my history with DLR began much earlier, when we came from Brazil in 2009, as my father started his PhD at the DLR. As the months went by, our house became full of posters and materials related to spaceships, airplanes, and wind tunnels. There was always a new technology and he promised me that as soon as I was older, after all I was only 4 years old at that time, he would take me to participate in the DLR/School Lab (Photo 1). I never forgot what he said, and it's a good thing my dad didn't either! And so I discovered the DLR.

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The years passed by and finally my time to participate came. After a long wait and never forgetting that world my father had introduced me to, I arrived in the sixth grade of school and with it came the offer to participate in after-school activities (every semester my school organises an extra activity, called "Club", involving sports and leisure activities). I have already done climbing, and currently I am doing gardening. In 2019 I signed up for the DLR, which once a year offers the option of building aircraft models. There were only a few vacancies but luckily, and with a little bit of divine help, I managed to enter.
It was great and I started having activities at DLR every week. Some colleagues from my school (2) also participated in the project with me and I made new friends too at DLR, who came from other schools. Altogether there were 16 of us. I like the workshop, it has various tools and lots of things to assemble. Macht spaß! I began by assembling various model airplanes in paper and styrofoam to understand how aerodynamics work and how airplanes fly - a new model every week! I really like going to the DLR. The coordinator, together with the activity monitors (3) are really friendly and know how to teach things about airplanes well.

I think this activity is important because I like airplanes, doing experiments and technology, and the DLR environment is really cool. I have already learnt very important things about physics, stuff that I don't even have at school yet. I've dedicated myself because I think it will help me in my education and it will be good for my life. I don't yet know what I will be when I grow up, for now I'm thinking about being an architect, a designer.
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Model airplane with motor
In January this year, 2020, I began the second (advanced) module of the model airplane workshop because I wanted to continue learning. Only myself and 2 other colleagues continued on from the first module, joined by 3 new friends, making 6 of us in total. When I finish this module, I intend continuing on to the next one and, who knows, maybe enter the School Lab for real one day.
I consider myself to be a normal child. I don't always like to go to school, I have hobbies like riding my scooter and playing video games. I like doing sports like badminton, swimming, running and walking. And I dream of winning the Lotto, buying a house and having a very peaceful life.

Vamos Voar Sem sair do solo?

20/2/2020

 

The InnovaSpace Team

 

​Quando se pensa em viajar de avião, a primeira coisa que vem à cabeça é o serviço de bordo e as opções de alimentação. Brincadeira! É a segurança, claro. Todo mundo quer decolar, viajar e aterrissar em paz. Mas, para que tudo possa acontecer de uma forma tão profissional que você nem perceba, muitas pessoas estão trabalhando nos bastidores.
A tripulação – piloto, copiloto, comissários, técnicos – tem muita responsabilidade. Vivem uma rotina difícil de horas e horas no ar, com alguns intervalos no solo. Por isso, você já imaginou como é a saúde deles? Como fazem para ter corpo e mente saudáveis? E os passageiros? Será que todos estão em condições de voar? Esses questionamentos motivaram horas de estudo dos médicos Thais Russomano e João de Carvalho Castro, os quais dedicaram muito de sua vida acadêmica à medicina aeroespacial.
E você tem a oportunidade de conhecer o trabalho deles em detalhes através do eBook "A Fisiologia Humana no Ambiente Aeroespacial".
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Abaixo, um trecho do livro para que você possa se inspirar:
"O sonho de voar sempre esteve presente no imaginário humano desde os tempos mais remotos. Atualmente, cruzar o mundo de um lado para o outro, aproximando pessoas, vencendo barreiras geográficas e integrando culturas, é uma realidade viável e acessível. O ambiente aeroespacial, porém, difere do terrestre e impõe vários riscos à saúde e à segurança de aviadores, da tripulação de bordo e de passageiros durante um voo."
O eBook foi oficialmente lançado em 19 de Fev, na Ordem dos Médicos, Secção Sul, Lisboa, Portugal, com o suporte da Sociedade Médica Científica Aeroespacial - Associação Portuguesa (SMAPor). Os convidados tiveram ainda a oportunidade de assistir a três palestras. Na primeira, Thais Russomano debateu o tema "Fisiologia Humana no Espaço". Após, João Castro explorou aspectos ligados à "Fisiologia Aeroespacial". Por fim, a médica Rosirene Gessinger abordou o tema "Medicina de Aviação".

O evento e o eBook são iniciativas da InnovaSpace, uma empresa britânica do tipo Think Tank, global e inclusiva, de caráter multicultural e multidisciplinar. A InnovaSpace atua nas áreas espacial, aeronáutica e em telessaúde. E tem uma missão educativa muito importante: fazer com que a ciência espacial seja democratizada, tornando-a um assunto comum ao maior número possível de pessoas mundo afora!
O livro pode ser comprado no site Smashwords. Registre-se aqui primeiro, faça uma pesquisa usando nome dos autores ou o título do livro para encontrá-lo. Compre e faça o download, como um arquivo epub ou mobi.

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