NASHVILLE — The commercial spaceflight industry is booming, making aerospace medicine increasingly relevant for physicians, a speaker at OMED said.
According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, the average number of global space launches increased from 82 launches a year between 2008 to 2017 to 133 launches a year between 2018 to 2022.
“This is a massive burgeoning industry,” Serena Aun-Chancellor, MD, MPH, a professor of clinical medicine at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and astronaut, said. “We used to only talk about NASA astronauts. Not anymore. We will (Read more...)