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Stopped in to record with the Asia Pacific Foundation Canada in Asia Conference Podcast while in Singapore. Here's a peek behind the scenes from the episode - will share the recording when it's out!

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10 years at the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences already! Looking forward to reminiscing on our evolution as an institute on our webinar scheduled February 24 at 1700 PST/2000 EST/February 25 0630 IST. Register here to attend: form.jotform.com/250473855171... See you there! 👨🏽‍🚀🚀🌠🌎

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As my commitments in Singapore wrap up, I am looking forward to my next destination: Mumbai, India! My next 2 weeks will include talks, meetings, interviews and outreach, including an invited lecture at the Nehru Planetarium - hope to see you there! 👨🏽‍🚀🇮🇳🚀✨️🌠

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How wonderful to take the stage at the Canada in Asia Conference in Singapore Gala tonight for a fireside chat alongside the legendary Koichi Wakata of Axiom Space, moderated by Ambassador & Special Envoy Ian McKay. 🚀👨🏽‍🚀✨️ Thank you Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada for hosting! #CIAC2025

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Hello, Singapore! 🇸🇬🚀✨️

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How special to be a part of the Council of India Societies of Edmonton India Day Awards Ceremony 2025! So amazing to see so many brilliant and talented students and youth being recognized. Thank you for including me. 🙏🏽🇮🇳🏆

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Delighted to be headed to Singapore for the Canada-in-Asia conference this week, where legendary Axiom astronaut Koichi Wakata & I will take the stage to discuss opportunities for Canadian-Asian investment, innovation & collaboration in space. See you there! 🚀🌠👨🏽‍🚀

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From 0g to under the sea, I have proudly brought the red and white of the Canadian flag with me wherever I go. From its first unfurling 60 years ago to the next, here's to taking our beloved maple leaf to every corner of this Earth - and beyond. Happy Flag Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #flagday

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It's fitting to end a week celebrating the International Day of Women & Girls in Science with a reminder that there are 24 hours left to submit your proposal for science to our upcoming! You can apply here: 🚀🏥👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀 astronauticsinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

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✨️ It's your favorite iconic trio's...favorite iconic trio.✨️ There's no way I can cap off an amazing week celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science without giving a shout-out to my amazing crew. Norah, Kellie - this one's for you. ✨️👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀✨️🚀

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This is what strength, perseverance and hope look like. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

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Remember those movies growing up where you saw an array of women space explorers leading the way? This is it. It's here in 2025. And no matter who's trying to cover it up, tear it down, hide it away...it's already here. And it's not going away. 🌠🚀👩🏽‍🚀

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This International Day of Women and Girls in Science, remember to uplift and amplify the amazing women scientists around you. According to a 2024 UNOOSA report, women still only make up 20% of the technical workforce across the space sector globally. We still have work to do. 🚀🌠👩🏽‍🚀

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New York bound! I'm incredibly honored to be recognized at the United Nations for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science this week! You can watch live on UNTV this Tuesday, February 11th, starting at 1610 EST. 🌎🚀🌠👩🏽‍🚀 webtv.un.org/en/schedule/...

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I like to make my patients laugh. At the end of a visit in the ER, I often say, "and if your symptoms aren't better, just come back and yell at us to do our job!" Most patients laugh, but some are shocked that anyone could do that to another human, and say, "I would never!"

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Follow along with me on my day at the NASA Ames Research Center. From incredibly cool buildings (what do they store in there? 🤔) to even cooler discussions on off-world biomanufacturing, every second here was a (figurative) blast. 🚀🌠👩🏽‍🚀

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Imagine meeting for two days with experts to discuss & brainstorm Mars-shot ideas pertaining to sustainability, life support systems, Earth-independent operations, energy & infrastructure on Mars. And you get to do it at @setiinstitute.bsky.social. This is stuff dreams are made of. 🚀🌠🏥🔴

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Career tip: Aim to build yourself the kind of life where you get to work on roadblocks hindering a viable Mars Exploration architecture with leading experts under the Drake Equation at a @exploremars.bsky.social workshop at the @setiinstitute.bsky.social 🚀👩🏽‍🚀🏥🩺🔴🌠

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Such a delight to moderate and emcee Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk as he talked about his training for his upcoming ISS mission at @ualberta.bsky.social tonight! 🍁🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀✨️

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Wondering what space medicine has done for you lately? Tune in to our "Space Medicine for Earthlings," virtual panel next Tuesday, February 11, at 1800 EST. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🩺🏥 You can register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bbef0d...

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Here's to yesterday's astronauts, today's astronauts...and tomorrow's astronauts ✨️🚀👩🏽‍🚀

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Why do we practice formation floating, crew interaction, and joint payload operations in microgravity in advance of our spaceflight? Microgravity experience is key. As we prepare for our IIAS-02 spaceflight, not only do myself, Norah & Kellie need to be comfortable in the microgravity environment...

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What else did 👁 get up to at the NASA Investigators Workshop? I presented our IIAS work on the 0g testing of the Solvemed.AI smartphone app, to look for pupillometric changes in the 0g environment, which can potentially be used to monitor brain health over long-duration spaceflight! 👁🧠🚀👩🏽‍🚀

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From conception to delivery! How stellar to be able to present our work on IUD insertion in microgravity at the NASA Investigators Workshop this week! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀🔴✨️

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Hot off the press! The deadline for submissions for science aboard our IIAS-02 research spaceflight has been extended until February 15, 2025. You can apply here 🚀✨️ astronauticsinstitute.org/wp-content/u... FAQs here: astronauticsinstitute.org/wp-content/u... Looking forward to your submissions!

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Excited to be in Galveston, Texas for the 2025 NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop. I'll be here presenting 3 posters on our work on space health and crew operations at the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences - come say hi if you're around! 👩🏽‍🚀🏥🚀👩🏽‍⚕️🧬

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4 reasons to go to Mars in 15 seconds. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🔴🏥✨️

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Generations upon generations of astronauts. This is the world you live in now. ❤️🚀👨🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏾‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀👩🏼‍🚀👨🏻‍🚀🌎🌕 L->R: Henry Wolfond, me, Dr. Sian Proctor, Sarah Gillis, Anna Menon, Charlie Duke wife Dorothy

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"Can Humans get to Mars and Back?" Excited to take part in this panel at the AstroAwards tomorrow with Sian Proctor, Paul Wooster & Robert Zubrin, moderated by Ambre Trujillo. What topics should we cover during this session? 🚀🌠🔴 www.astroawards.live/schedule

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Looking forward to the AstroAwards in Austin this weekend, then presenting 3 projects from the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences at the NASA Human Research Program Investigators Workshop in Galveston next week. Come say hi if you are around! www.astroawards.live

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Sold out! Thank you, Edmonton Public Library for having me kick off your 2025 speaker series with my lessons on Success, Failure, Resilience, Pushing the Limits and Leveling Up. What an amazing night. Let's do it again sometime. ❤️👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

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Thanks @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social for having me on this morning! I am so looking forward to my Edmonton Public Library keynote tomorrow as part of the EPL Forward Thinkers series! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀🏥 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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I had such a stellar time going deep into the weeds of space medicine -and benefits for Earth- on the @criticalcaretime.bsky.social podcast with Drs. @nickmark.bsky.social and Cyrus Askin. Thanks for having me on, this was so much fun! 🏥🩺🚀👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏽‍🚀 shows.acast.com/649181182c96...

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Emergency medicine increasingly leads me to believe that wives are the leading cause of longevity in husbands. 🤔🏥🩺

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4 things I think it takes to succeed in 9.99 seconds flat. 🖤🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏽‍⚕️🏥 #pushthelimits #astronautmentality #showup #workhard #levelup #perseverance #nevergiveup

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Okay okay sometimes my Dad gives good life advice... ❤️ #dad #advice #loveyoudad #lifeadvice

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

A wonderful message to our excited 'Junior Einsteins' from the inspirational Dr. @shawnapandya.bsky.social Thank you Shawna ! Your journey is a powerful example of what our 'Junior Einsteins' can achieve, especially girls who dream of a future in STEM #STEMeducation #Womeninstem #junioreinsteins

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This struck me as I was leaving the hospital, so I wrote it down on the closest thing at hand. Just don't ever forget - no matter how today went, whether you won, lost, or just coasted...tomorrow is an opportunity to one-up yourself. #pushthelimits #daretoexplore #beextreme #levelup #bettereveryday

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Your daily reminder to go out and build the life you want for yourself. You've got this. 🚀🌠👩🏽‍🚀

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

8 years as a professional speaker with the National Speakers Bureau already! From Mexico to Qatar to everywhere in between, it has been incredible sharing my lessons on success, failure, resilience & most importantly, pushing the limits. I can't wait to do more in 2025 and beyond. 🎤🗣👩🏽‍🚀🚀🌠

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I'm honored to be named the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences 2024 Awesome PoSSUM of the year, IIAS' top award for leadership, dedication and service to the community. 2024 was a big year, and we're just getting started. Here’s to the sky and beyond in 2025 - thank you, IIAS! 🚀✨️👩🏽‍🚀

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Q. What did the astronaut say when they crashed into the Moon? A. They Apollo-gized! 🚀🌕🤭 #sorrynotsorry

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I wrote this Rocky quote down on a cue card a long time ago and stowed it with my stationary. Every time I need a pen or notebook, I see it and am reminded that it's up to me to determine what I'm worth...and then go make it happen. Consider this your reminder. ❤️🚀 #getit #pushthelimits

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