Christopher Bradburne

ABSTRACT

The convergence of technologies across biology, autonomous systems, and space exploration is enabling the broad new field of ‘space biology’. Technological investments in biology and health are being leveraged to enable this new field. Astrobiology, precision medicine, and the public health concept of ‘OneHealth’ will form a foundation for combined autonomous and human presence on the moon and Mars in the near future. This talk will focus on the speaker’s involvement in recent developments in these fields, and how the space biology community is emerging to both discover life in our solar system and grow the sustained human presence beyond low Earth-orbit.