The CHAPEA crew checks in on their seventh month in a Mars simulated habitat and NASA experts discuss the impacts that spaceflight has on astronauts’ health. This is the seventh audio log of a monthly series. HWHAP Episode 324.
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Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space center, episode 324, Mars audio log number seven.
I'm Gary Jordan.
I'll be your host today on this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.
We're back with another audio log from the Chepia crew.
Chepa, or crew health and performance Exploration Analog is a year long analog mission in a habitat right here on Earth that is simulating very closely what it would be like to live on Mars.
We're lucky enough to have monthly check ins with the crew commander Kelly Hasten, flight engineer Ross Brockwell, medical officer Nathan Jones, and science officer Anka Solaryu to meet the needs of fitting in with this analog and simulating significant communication delays between Earth and Mars that prohibit us from having a live conversation.
The crew is recording an audio log based off the questions that we draft for them on this episode.
We play the recording on their 7th month in the habitat, which is here at the NASA Johnson Space center and was recorded in January of 2024.
We'll also be bringing in some special guests to learn even more about Shapiya.
This month is on another angle of scientific research, immunology and virology.
A lot of these things that weve been talking about onshopia, long spacewalks dealing with problems, isolation and confinement can have stressors on the human body that may affect an astronauts immune system.
Returning to the podcast to discuss immunology is doctor Brian Krushen, who we had on about five and a half years ago to talk about one of the hazards of human spaceflight.
Diving deeper into the hostile enclosed environments, particularly from an immunology perspective, were also welcoming.
Welcome doctor Satish Mehta to the podcast virologist here at the Johnson Space center who has spent the past two decades characterizing the clinical risks associated with virus reactivation in astronauts during spaceflight.
The two are working together on the immunology and virology investigation of Chepea.
So with that, lets learn from the Chepa crew on how theyre doing and from Brian and satish on the Chepeah, immunology and virology.
Lets get into it.
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