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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2013 Astronauts4Hire and NASTAR Center Announce Partnership Tampa, Florida – Astronauts4Hire and the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR®) Center are proud to announce that they have signed a services agreement for NASTAR Center Space Training and to collaborate on developing new A4H-branded training programs for A4H’s commercial astronaut candidates. A4H and the NASTAR Center will work together to develop A4H-specific training courses for astronaut candidates interested in aiding researchers, payload developers, and spaceflight providers with mission planning and operations support during spaceflight missions. "A4H is an ambitious organization that has demonstrated diverse interests in space applications," stated Brienna Henwood, Director of Space Training and Research at the NASTAR Center. "I look forward to their insight and am happy to support their training goals of conducting research operations in space." The ag...

The long-awaited video highlighting Astronauts4Hire's purpose, services, and the training its members undergo to become professional commercial astronauts is now available on the A4H YouTube channel . Watch now to learn about the only organization developing the next generation commercial astronaut workforce. "Astronauts4Hire is a fast-growing 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization comprised of Ph.D. level experts in a wide array of scientific fields spread all over the world. We're developing this commercial astronaut workforce to bridge the gap between researchers and the new commercial space industry. We can help your organization be highly productive on parabolic flights, suborbital or even orbital missions. Contact us today to put our team to work on your project." --Brian Shiro, A4H CEO Special thanks to Oceans Aloft and Rusty Rogers for filming and producing the video. We also thank A4H's training partners Survival Systems USA , SIRIUS Astronaut Training , a...

Dear friends of Astronauts4Hire, Reflecting back upon 2012, I am impressed by the strides Astronauts4Hire has made to firmly establish itself as an important leader in the commercial spaceflight industry. Our primary mission is to build the next generation astronaut workforce by providing skills training, networking, and other professional development opportunities to aspiring commercial astronauts. As a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, we rely upon the volunteer efforts of our members, generosity of our sponsors , and collaboration with our  partners  to meet our goals. With your help, we have achieved a lot in the past year, including: With partner Vital Space , we completed our second job as "astronauts for hire" testing the Sotera Wireless Visi Mobile biometric monitoring system on a NASA parabolic flight campaign .  The project received a great deal of TV and radio media coverage as well. We announced our commercial astronaut training programs with qualifica...

Earlier this week, A4H Training Officer Dr. Erik Seedhouse was the featured guest on The Space Show where he discussed his new book Astronauts for Hire: The Emergence of the Commercial Astronaut Corps (ISBN 978-1-4614-0519-1), which has been available since April 2012 . The interview covers suborbital and orbital spaceflight, aeromedical issues, training, safety, and the activities of the A4H organization. It's an engaging conversation that we proudly recommend to anyone interested in commercial spaceflight. Listen to the show here: Podcast Powered By Podbean

We are proud to present Astronauts4Hire's third quarterly newsletter The A4H News . Highlights in this issue include interviews with A4H Chief Operating Officer Dr. Jason Reimuller and NASA astronaut Dr. Yvonne Cagle , recaps of recent A4H activities - including the successful Vital Space microgravity research flights - and the most important news in the commercial spaceflight industry. Click below to view the newsletter in full screen mode , or download the PDF . Like this? Sign up to receive email notifications for future issues of The A4H News , or contact us to learn about advertising opportunities. Did you miss the first two issues of the newsletter? View them here and here !

On our recent NASA-funded parabolic flights with partner Vital Space , A4H helped evaluate  Sotera Wireless 's new FDA-approved biomedical monitoring system in the microgravity environment in order to advance the safety of spaceflight for everyone. The first news media stories associated with A4H's second parabolic research project are out, and we'd like to share them with you. The principal investigators of the study doctors Komatireddy and Barrett from the Scripps Translational Science Institute were on three local news programs this week talking about the project's goals to better understand and monitor the human body's response to spaceflight. Their live interviews include footage of A4H flight members Reimuller and Shiro testing the Sotera device in microgravity. You can watch all three video segments below: KUSI TV Good Morning San Diego (also watch on YouTube ): KGTV ABC 10 News San Diego ( text here , also watch on YouTube ): KSWD FOX 5 News San Diego...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 29, 2012 Advancing safe space flight for everyone, Vital Space and Astronauts4Hire test innovative Biometric Monitoring Platform in Zero Gravity Houston, Texas – Vital Space and Astronauts4Hire completed a 4-day flight research campaign consisting of 160 microgravity parabolas to validate ViSi Mobile, a cutting-edge FDA-approved vital sign monitoring system. Astronauts4Hire flight members Jason Reimuller and Brian Shiro provided operational expertise and served as subjects in the study, which aims to leverage emerging innovations in mobile health technology for spaceflight applications. "Commercial spaceflight participants present a variety of opportunities for new biomedical research," said the project Principal Investigator Dr. Ravi Komatireddy, a KL2 clinician scholar in wireless medicine at the Scripps Translational Science Institute trained in Internal Medicine. "This flight campaign lays the groundwork for future experiments that aim to...