1/13/23: Picture, announcements, kidney paper

Agenda and Minutes


Sign near entrance to Lave River Cave


Ripple feature in the cave. Is it the same as on the sign?


Entrance to cave

1. Announcements

  • A lot of information on the weekly agenda has been moved to other pages on this website.
    • One example: Recent space activities is in the space calendars page. Thank you for suggesting new links.
  • Women in space paper is published - congrats to all!
  • Welcome to TC who would like to read the kidney paper with us.

2. Reading and discussion

The meeting ended here.

    • https://planet4589.org/space/index.html, from Jonathan's Space Pages (https://www.planet4589.org). 
  • Here are some generic questions about articles (and videos):
    • What is the source?
    • What is the most significant advance in the human knowledge presented in the paper?
    • Why is that advance important?
    • What important questions arise from the paper for future research?
    • What important questions would it be nice if the paper answered, but does not answer?
    • What does the paper present that is novel (no one else has provided that before)?
    • What is the relevance of the paper to our satellite research goals?
    • Questions from the group?

 3. Previously completed readings include:

    • We finished section 6 of MR paper (C:\Users\jdberleant\Dropbox\research\SpaceTravelMetric-b6-5-16\PapersAndPresentations\byOthers\MatthewRoughanDraft.pdf). This completes the parts that we planned to read. 
    • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9o66fH_sgo (about MOXIE device which converts CO2 to oxygen). We then read a bit more about MOXIE on wikipedia.
    • Https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946 on "progress studies." Completed 9/30/22.
    • Ryan et al., "A Forgotten Moment in Physiology: the Lovelace Woman in Space Program (1960-1962)", 2009. Completed 7/22/22.
    • Various previous papers.

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