News Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles and Renee Abbott have been highlighted for their research on multisensory virtual reality.

Story: https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2023/01/stop-and-smell-the-roses-from-outer-space.html

Media Interview: https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/local/texas-a-m-u/texas-am-researchers-are-using-multisensory-virtual-reality-to-help-nasa-astronauts-during-long-term-missions/499-eaff0b0a-0c97-446c-959e-4105e7df51ef

Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles  and Logan Kluis have been featured on the Texas A&M Engineering website for their work on designing and prototyping a hybrid planetary spacesuit, the SmartSuit. The article can be read here:

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2022/04/aero-exploring-hybrid-spacesuit-designs-for-planetary-missions.html

The story has been picked up internationally and can also be read here:

https://news.abplive.com/science/how-spacesuit-architecture-smart-suit-can-create-safer-environment-for-astronauts-during-spacewalks-1527261

Listen to Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles talk with Ryan Kobrick and Jules Lancee in a SGAC Space Medicine and Life Sciences program!

BHP PI, Dr. Ana Diaz Artiles, will be working on a study on astronaut mental health before, during, and after the mission. Read more:

AMADEE-20 Mars Simulation

Texas A&M doctoral student, and bhp lab member, creates virtual outreach opportunity for fourth graders. Read more about it:

https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2021/09/aero-texas-am-doctoral-student-creates-virtual-outreach-opportunity-for-fourth-graders.html

Listen to this fun conversation between Prof. Diaz-Artiles and Jake Robins on WeMartians podcast about our spacesuit work!

https://www.wemartians.com/podcasts/101-smartsuit-feat-ana-diaz-artiles

Ph.D. student Rich Whittle was recently awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize at Cranfield University (U.K.) following his M.Sc. in Astronautics and Space Engineering.  In this short video, Rich talks about his time at Cranfield and his research on emergency life support systems for lunar EVA with Wing Commander (Dr.) Pete Hodkinson RAF, the U.K.’s first aviation and space medicine consultant physician.

Welcome to the website for the new Bioastronautics and Human Performance Research Group in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University.  Take a look around, some parts of the site are still under construction but we are working to get things up and running.

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