Roads to Resilience: Lessons from Science and Life

Attendance is open to Stanford Medicine alumni and a limited number of Stanford Medicine students.

Alumni to Alumni Speaker Series

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. In May 2020, SpaceX returned America’s ability to fly NASA astronauts to space on American vehicles for the first time since 2011. In addition to carrying astronauts to space for NASA, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft can also carry civilians to Earth orbit, the ISS or beyond. This fall, SpaceX will launch Inspiration4 – the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit. During their multi-day journey, the Inspiration4 crew will conduct in-flight experiments and contribute to biomedical research. This novel commercial space research effort, led by SpaceX and in conjunction with TRISH and other partners, will help pave the way for more frequent scientific research in space. SpaceX is also leveraging its experience in building rockets and spacecraft to deploy Starlink – a global space-based broadband internet system. Unbounded by traditional ground infrastructure, Starlink can deliver high-speed broadband internet to locations around the world where access has been unreliable or completely unavailable, with the potential to transform telehealth and medicine for Earth and space alike.

Lessons Learned - Preparing for a Brighter Tomorrow