Her academic background includes a bachelor's in biomedical engineering from Vanderbilt University, a master's in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT, and a PhD in
bioastronautics from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.
NASA SP-300 6,
Bioastronautics Data Book, National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Scientific & Technical Information Div, 1964.
Proceedings of the Universities Space Research Association
Bioastronautics Investigators' Workshop; 2005 Jan 10-12; Galveston, Texas.
These
bioastronautics research programs aimed at the minimum requirements to put humans in space and return them safely to Earth.
NASA's
Bioastronautics Roadmap addresses areas of risk associated with long-duration spaceflight and proposes interventions ("countermeasures") to address or overcome them (10).
Early this year, in a document called a
Bioastronautics Roadmap, NASA described the health risks of long-duration space travel.