Aurora Aerospace partners with Astrowright to offer microgravity flight promotion

Posted on 09.14.2011 by astrowright

Astrowright has partnered with Aurora Aerospace to offer a limited-time promotion.  Through October 31, all participants in Astrowright’s preflight fitness program will receive a redemption code good for a 20% discount on a microgravity “zero-g” flight experience from Aurora Aerospace!

Aurora Aerospace's Rockwell microgravity flight aircraft.

Touting a high-degree of customization and no interference from other participants, Aurora Aerospace’s microgravity flights are composed of 10-12 parabolic maneuvers, each offering roughly 10 seconds of “true” weightlessness.

This makes for nearly two full minutes of zero-g!

In order to qualify for the discount, take advantage of Astrowright’s preflight fitness training!  Whether a professional astronaut or an upcoming or hopeful spaceflight participant, Astrowright’s pioneering fitness programs include a custom, in-person or video-chat-based exercise regimen tailored to suit you, no matter your fitness level, age, or background.

From the comfort of your own home, train to minimize your recovery time from the forces of launch and reentry, and develop agility useful for microgravity movement and orientation – all while developing habits for life-long health and fitness.  For more information, see our preflight fitness program informational packet and fitness package pricing sheet.

Contact Astrowright at info@astrowright.com today and mention this promotion to get started!

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Florida-based Aurora Aerospace is the world’s only civilian space training center to offer both flight and ground-based training, with a combined experience of more than 40 years in education, medicine, and aviation.  Additionally, Aurora Aerospace staff were recently selected as Space Ambassadors by the National Space Society in conjunction with Virgin Galactic.  For more information about Aurora Aerospace, visit www.aurora-aerospace.com.

Astrowright Spaceflight Consulting LLC offers industry-leading custom preflight fitness, personal space radiation dosimetry, spacecraft habitability, and microgravity product testing services.  Based in Las Vegas, NV, Astrowright’s mission is to promote spacecraft human integration and ergonomics best practices; to promote space radiation awareness and protection; to enable researchers, professionals, and ordinary individuals to maximize their time in space through preflight fitness training; to assist in the efficient operation of commercial and academic research payloads, and to help to develop superior microgravity products and instrumentation.  For more information about Astrowright’s history, staff, or services, visit www.astrowright.com.

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Astrowright researcher appears in Newsweek

Posted on 07.11.2011 by astrowright

McGee at left, all systems go. (Credit: Andrew Hetherington for Newsweek)

While not by name, look for Astrowright Research Scientist Ben McGee in the July 18, 2011 hardcopy edition of Newsweek magazine.  (The article is available online now.)  Entitled, “The Next Space Race – Private Companies Fill the Void Left by the Space Shuttle,” the article details commercial scientist-astronaut training at the NASTAR Center and the role of private space in the post-Shuttle era. 

Credit: Andrew Hetherington for Newsweek

As a participant in the training cadre along with Newsweek author Tony Dokoupil, McGee appears in the article twice.  The first appearance is in the article’s second image at far left (above) and in the third image as the trainee fourth from the left (image at right). 

As the article explains, the advent of commercial spaceflight will necessitate the rise of private support service providers as well as the development of commercial spaceflight professionals.  In providing industry-pioneering preflight fitness training, personal spaceflight radiation dosimetry, spacecraft ergonomics assessments, micro and high-g product testing services, and charter payload specialists, Astrowright Spaceflight Consulting LLC aims to play a significant role in this “Next Space Race.” 

For more information on Astrowright’s mission, services, or staff, please visit www.astrowright.com.

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Astrowright joins NASA’s NHHPC

Posted on 06.15.2011 by astrowright

We are pleased to report that Astrowright Spaceflight Consulting LLC has been accepted as a corporate member of the NASA Human Health and Performance Center (NHHPC).

The NHHPC was launched in October of 2010 to coordinate global human health and performance efforts in spaceflight and foster open collaboration between NASA, academic institutions, and member organizations.  Current members of note include Nike, the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and the Southwest Research Institute.

The benefits of Astrowright participation with NHHPC will be threefold.  First, such participation will provide an open forum for Astrowright to share findings and promote fitness process improvements derived from our industry-leading Preflight Fitness Program.  Secondly, Astrowright will benefit from the exchange of human performance research developments disseminated by NASA and other member organizations.  Lastly, NHHPC membership with enable Astrowright to participate in collaborative government-industry-academic projects that aim to advance human spaceflight capabilities.

We are excited to come aboard and look forward to future collaboration with NHHPC.  For more information about Astrowright’s history or services, please visit our website at www.astrowright.com.

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McGee completes high-altitude, G-tolerance astronaut training

Posted on 05.14.2011 by astrowright

Astrowright Principal Research Scientist Ben McGee recently completed the Suborbital Scientist – Astronaut Training Program at the National AeroSpace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center in Southampton, PA.

The program, which is the only FAA-certified offering of its kind, includes a rigorous combination of high-altitude and motion physiology coursework, hypobaric chamber extreme-altitude hypoxia training, distraction factors exercises, and centrifuge-based G-tolerance conditioning.

While undergoing the high-altitude portion of the program, McGee was trained to recognize the individualized effects of oxygen deprivation by removing his oxygen supply at an equivalent pressure-altitude of 25,000 feet and performing color, dexterity, and cognition tests.  McGee’s G-tolerance training, which emphasized both the G-x and G-z components, culminated with a full-strength, full-duration simulated sub-orbital space flight that precisely mimicked the forces experienced by pilots of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipOne.

The completion of this training establishes cornerstone technical proficiencies for Astrowright’s charter suborbital payload specialist program.  For more information on Astrowright products and services, please visit www.astrowright.com.

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