Mission Series:  Hephaestus

 

Scientia Et Inventio Nos Ad Astra Tolle -- “Science and Invention Take Us to the Stars”

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The Hephaestus Mission Series is designed to....... 

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Hephaestus was the Greek God of ____, and was said to be the purveyor of invention and technology.  Hera is a nod to the legacy of NASA's Human Research Program (HRP) Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) facility in Houston, Texas.

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ASRI's Cosmouse missions will examine each stage of mammalian gestation in Low Earth Orbit spaceflight, culminating with the launch of MICEHAB, a NASA-conceived orbital rodent colony that will allow scientists to observe the impacts of long-term exposure to microgravity and Galactic Cosmic Radiation to mammalian reproductive health over the course of multiple generations.  These experiments will take crucial steps in determining safe and viable parameters for human reproduction in space environments in the coming decades.​​

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Projected Missions:

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Eileithyia - 1  (2047)

Eileithyia - 2  (2049)

Eileithyia - 3  (2051)

Eileithyia - 4  (2053)

Eileithyia - 5  (2055)​​