Image above: The crew of Axiom Mission 3, from left to right: Axiom Space’s chief astronaut and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría will serve as commander. Italian Air Force Col. Walter Villadei will serve as pilot. The two mission specialists are Alper Gezeravci of Turkey and ESA (European Space Agency) project astronaut Marcus Wandt of Sweden. Photo credit: Axiom Space
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) will conduct a suite of human health and performance research projects during Axiom Space’s upcoming Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) to the International Space Station (ISS), scheduled to launch in 2024. TRISH is a consortium led by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Space Medicine with partners California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The TRISH EXPAND biomedical research projects for Ax-3 includes Space Omics + BioBank, which gathers biological specimens from astronauts before and after their mission to assess the effects of spaceflight on the human body at the genomic level.