RadBREAD: Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry

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RadBREAD: Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry – A student-designed payload

Sigrid Reinsch / Kelly Wong / Simon Ng / Amalia Luthens / Ada Kanapskyte / Benjamin Heath Alva / Scott Marshall Ledford / Philip Lee / Sergio R Santa Maria / Hami Ray / ... [mehr]

Abstract

NASA uses extreme environment platforms (ground testing facilities, high-altitude balloons and aircraft, and CubeSats) to provide greater understanding of the conditions and limitations of extra-terrestrial environments. As part of a two-week flight planned for summer 2021, RadBREAD (Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry) will fly as a secondary payload consisting of a M-42C (German Aerospace Center, DLR) ionizing radiation dosimeter, UV micro-logger, and multiple desiccated yeast samples. The platform is a novel high-altitude solar-powered aircraft: the Swift Engineering High-Altitude samples. The platform is a novel high-altitude solar-powered aircraft: the Swift Engineering High-Altitude Long-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft System (HALE UAS), which offers significantly longer flight durations than other high-altitude platforms. The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae will provide meaningful biological correlation for the sensor readings, due to its resistance to extremely low temperature and pressure when desiccated, ease of genetic manipulation, and homology to human genes. The RadBREAD team comprises the 2020 cohort of NASA’s Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) research associates as well as NASA scientists, engineers and radiation experts from NASA and the DLR. Yeast survival, metabolic, and transcriptomic changes will be correlated with environmental data collected during long-term exposure to the upper atmosphere. Additionally, the team will evaluate the upper atmospheric environment (radiation, pressure, and temperature) provided by the HALE UAS platform as a Mars surface analog for biological payloads. We hypothesize that exposure to upper atmospheric conditions during the HALE UAS flight will alter the survival, metabolism, and transcriptome of desiccated wild-type S. cerevisiae upon rehydration compared to sensitive and tolerant yeast strains exposed to the same conditions, and between the flight samples compared to asynchronous ground controls.

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Titel :

RadBREAD: Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry – A student-designed payload

Beteiligte:

Sigrid Reinsch (Autor:in) / Kelly Wong (Autor:in) / Simon Ng (Autor:in) / Amalia Luthens (Autor:in) / Ada Kanapskyte (Autor:in) / Benjamin Heath Alva (Autor:in) / Scott Marshall Ledford (Autor:in) / Philip Lee (Autor:in) / Sergio R Santa Maria (Autor:in) / Hami Ray (Autor:in)

Kongress:

American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) 2021 ; 2021 ; Baltimore, MD, US

Medientyp :

Sonstige

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Sprache :

Englisch

Schlagwörter :

Life Sciences (General) , radiation exposure , stratosphere , dosimetry , solar vehicle , UV , student project , yeast

RadBREAD: Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry – A student-designed payload

RadBREAD: Radiation Biology Research at an Elevated Altitude through Dosimetry – A student-designed payload

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