Toolkit for educators and youth – Health sciences
This web package is a one-stop resource for educators and youth who want to learn about the health research conducted in space for the benefit of Canadians on Earth.
Reading list
- Toolkit for educators and youth on astronauts' mental health and isolation
- Careers in space – Health science experts
- Canadian science in space can improve life on Earth – an article by the CSA for Let's Talk Science
- Effects of space on the body
- Improving health care
- Health in space
- Why do we conduct science experiments in space?
- Canadian science on the International Space Station
- Testing medical technologies
- Physical activity in space
Things to do
Visuals
Videos
- Why do we do science in space?
- To the International Space Station and beyond
- Artemis II vlog 13: What if we get sick in space?
- Studying eye health in space with astronaut Matthias Maurer
- Remote healthcare on Earth and in space, presented by David Saint-Jacques
- Mental health videos
- Deep Space Healthcare Challenge finalist: Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation
- Deep Space Healthcare Challenge finalist: Neursantys
- Deep Space Healthcare Challenge finalist: IndigenousTech.ai
- Deep Space Healthcare Challenge finalist: Luxsonic Technologies
- Deep Space Healthcare Challenge finalist: MD Applications
From our video archives
- Better understanding space anemia with MARROW
- The Wayfinding experiment: Studying how spaceflight affects astronauts' brains
- David Saint-Jacques explains how the Bio-Monitor smart shirt system keeps an eye on astronauts' vital signs in space
- Studying vection, an interesting optical illusion, with David Saint-Jacques
- Cosmic radiation – Questions and answers with David Saint-Jacques live from space
- Sickness – Questions and answers with David Saint-Jacques live from space
- Human space travel to Mars - Questions and answers with David Saint-Jacques live from space
- Canadian space technology helps fight breast cancer on Earth
- David Saint-Jacques on environmental conditions aboard the ISS
- Using space to fight cardiovascular disease with astronaut Tim Peake
- TBone - Effects of microgravity on bones with astronaut Tim Peake
- Studying the effects of ageing and immobility in space with Tim Peake
- The five senses in space: sight
- The five senses in space: hearing
- The five senses in space: taste
- The five senses in space: smell
- The five senses in space: touch
- Chris Hadfield on getting sick in space
- Chris Hadfield on how eyesight is affected in space
- Chris Hadfield on how the body adapts to weightlessness
- Chris Hadfield and heart health in space
- A Mission Possible: Hadfield on how ISS bio-samples can help in the battle against osteoporosis
- Chris Hadfield trains for medical emergencies
- No limits
- AI-based medical care for deep space exploration
- Health in space video series by Ingenium Canada and the CSA