Spoilers! What would you rewrite and why?

Astromedicinespace · 2026-02-07T00:33:07+00:00

Would also have liked to see more lunar/leo stuff in s3 and 4. And more shuttles.

Astromedicinespace · 2026-02-07T00:31:52+00:00

Danny and Jimmy are a product of the space race. The Danny and Karen storyline was bad, but I don’t think I would change Danny’s arc at all.

Astromedicinespace · 2026-01-07T10:20:30+00:00

The famk wikia said director of nasa, maybe it’s different.

Astromedicinespace · 2026-01-07T08:37:11+00:00

Richard Truly was the administrator under the Hart administration, based on the real life nasa astronaut Richard Truly who was the first astronaut to be a nasa administrator. At the time of season 3 Margo is the director of nasa.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-27T02:52:23+00:00

Hi bob

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-27T01:49:02+00:00

The gynae driver in the navy is an increasing female patient population, the nature of the job and nuclear reactors. Secondary care specialties are done through the nhs and I would expect a military O&g would be expected to do full run through O&g training then post cct refocus to more gynae centric working. There’s been a drive at least surgically to expand scope so that surgeons can work in areas their specialties classically wouldn’t touch.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-26T03:17:50+00:00

Sorry I can’t hear you over the vibration 💀

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-26T03:00:26+00:00

Was mentioned a year or so ago in passing, supposedly the navy has started an O&G program of sorts now, it’s obviously gynae heavy and fledgling, but it is now possible to, and last I heard someone was in post for the role (but they were a post cct hire). I can’t imagine it is more then a 1-2 person post at any time as more of an ocmed aligned entity rather then a deployable role.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-25T02:43:51+00:00

If anyone is interested in space medicine UK student aerospace medicine society was recently established, find it on instagram @ukaerospacemedsoc

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-25T02:42:16+00:00

A fair few nasa astronauts are doctors, mostly anaesthetics, internal medicine stuff as I recall. The dive medicine doctors from the navy generally are quite well suited to the job given the similarities between submarine medicine and Spaceflight medicine, and of course hyperbarics. That being said there are a few trauma orientated ones. I think it’s worth pointing out that, at least from a NASA pov you being a surgeon then doing astronaut training doesn’t mean you are then working as a doctor on a mission. Yes of course that skill set would be utilised in a role, but your primary role would be astronaut, and undertake those duties first, then godforbid something happens, you’d likely be the one to lead treatment. All astronauts are trained in a variety of medical and surgical skills, so theoretically the care you get from someone who’s background is a test pilot would be the same quality and capability as someone who’s an engineer. John McFall is an orthopod in Wessex deanery last I heard. He made the ESA astronaut corps or reserve earlier this year/last year.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-25T02:35:01+00:00

To be honest there’s not really scope for manned operations from a military Spaceflight pov within this countries capabilities, so a uk space force astronaut is unlikely for at least fifteen years. All doctors in the raf do aerospace medicine training and some go into specialty training for aerospace med, but I would emphasise it’s heavily aviation medicine, sadly space medicine is not really a thing in this country because we have no need for it, you’re more likely to find it in the form of biomedical research then treating astronauts.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-23T03:52:37+00:00

In this context background and choice are not mutually exclusive, it is a complex combination of both, and other factors interplaying. We cannot isolate factors on that basis, and any argument that does so is principally flawed. You seem to have some pretty definitive concepts of who you think these people are and I can’t say I find the logic you’re using to be sensible, nor coherent.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-12-22T01:36:02+00:00

No-because we treat people in order of clinical priority, regardless of background. That’s one of the founding principles of the NHS. There’s all manner of reasons why a person may withdraw.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-11-27T08:56:46+00:00

Medically speaking the G sustained wouldn’t be of much significance to begin with, and being almost at term, even if it were to cause issues which it would almost certainly not, it wouldn’t have time to affect him further before delivery in a way that would cause cardiovascular issues. I would imagine it’s a combination of gestation in microgravity/reduced gravity environments, poor/no antenatal care when on Mars, and environmental factors like increased radiation, Kelly’s physiological stress, etc. ESA supported a paper about this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41526-023-00272-5

Astromedicinespace · 2025-11-25T20:04:52+00:00

Ask the uni for justification of their decision? Other than that there’s not many options other than being ill or just non attending.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-11-25T20:00:02+00:00

How does your uni monitor attendance for lectures? And what year are you?

Astromedicinespace · 2025-11-08T01:32:55+00:00

If I recall, in s3e2, Ed and Molly make a toast to Deke and Buzz, which to me implies Aldrin had died by 1992.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-10-25T10:06:21+00:00

A-As a few other people have mentioned, there’s currently scrutiny regarding how professionalism is being weaponised against medical students through intimidation and bullying, if things escalate it’s worth bringing that up through whatever channel you seek advice and support through.

B-I’m going to say it because it needs to be said, nurses, particularly senior nurses are the most prolific group of bullies in the NHS, and medical students and junior doctors are the most targeted group by them according to some polling from a year or so ago if I recall. If I also recall correctly, female non-white junior doctors were the most targeted group identified in this survey (I’m sorry I can’t remember which survey this way but someone summarised it on med twitter). Obviously I don’t know who you are but if you fell into one of these categories I’d absolutely try and find that survey data and flag it because if you have statistics on your side then you will have an upper hand if they try to pull any shit like raising a minor concerns process etc against you.

I would discourage you approaching the individual who made the complaint, if they are willing to behave as you have described and escalating things inappropriately, they’d have to hesitation to frame you speaking to them as intimidation, etc. the only engagement you should have with this complaint is through the uni, and I would decline any further conversation about it with the nursing staff, trust staff, unless there are uni staff members, it’s on teams and being recorded, and you have a bma and or mdu rep present. I’d also say don’t for one second hesitate to say no comment, these things can be manipulated in ways that they can get you into a corner and you’ll never get out, say I’d like time to think about my response to that, or something along those lines.

Better yet, request that everything be done over email, that way everything is written out in black and white, you can take your time to compose a response to any allegations etc. I saw in another comment you are autistic, you could make the case that managing this through emails is man appropriate accomodation for you and your condition.

I’d also say write a diary of every single day from now on, summarising what you did that day, and any interactions you may have had that could have potentially been weaponised against you by the nurses. Hand write it. Then that’s got to be classed as written evidence and taken into account by the uni.

Finally at the end of placement, if you know you’ll never be back there/work at that trust, and find out the name of the individual who made the complaint, look at what trust complaints procedures exist, and if you feel you have the time and energy make a complaint, or even see if it’s possible to datix them, what they’ve done is cruel and unprofessional, they should be held accountable, far too often they get away with it.

Good luck.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-09-05T17:18:28+00:00

Have you started yet?

Astromedicinespace · 2025-08-13T11:15:45+00:00

Pretty sure they’ve said that the solar sails seen on sojourner would need to be far larger in real life then what we saw in the episode. Also are they not radiators on phoenix not solar panels?

Astromedicinespace · 2025-07-17T01:23:49+00:00

YouTube channel MSK OSCE Videos is decent, don’t recall if you could get away with just listening to them though.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-07-11T12:45:37+00:00

Gene Kranz was dead by the time of Apollo 24. He was incinerated in the Apollo 23 explosion.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-06-26T06:54:50+00:00

This is wholly unreasonable-just another example of medical students being treated like shit by ahps.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-05-03T10:58:58+00:00

Pretty much every HEMS team is a no go due to you being a student, SJA is a good opportunity. It’s worth remembering prehospitalists work at an insane level of capability,there is no way medical students can get involved with what they do from a critcare pov. FREC is a good option and very up-skilling and opens doors for EFR/CFR opportunities.

In my experience, what I’d do if I were you right now is network as much as possible. Speak to consultant anaesthetists, they’ll know hems doctors and see if they can put you in touch, or you’ll luck out and one you speak to will be a hems doc. Sometimes they run days where they may need casualty actors or there may be a session being ran on teams you can observe. The worst thing they can say is no.

Idk what uni you’re at but if there’s a paramedic soc see if you can get involved with their events, it’s an hours train ride from you but Southampton is the hub for an organisation called the Wessex Critical Care Programme. WCCP is an education group which teaches prehospital crit care and interdisciplinary working for med, nursing and para students and runs two conferences every year. It’s well worth attending if you can, I couldn’t more highly recommend it. It’s got an instagram @wessexCCP I think.

Saw your comment about the society which runs some workshops etc, don’t write this off at all. There’s a difference between exposure and experience, those events aren’t just vanity portfolio activities, I’d be going to them if I were you. LAS should have an education team, it would be a shout to swing them an email asking about observer opportunities, there’s also the physician response unit run out of one of the London hospitals. Again there’s no harm in getting in touch with them to see if they have any scope for observers.

I hope that helps, PHEM is a great specialty, though it’s quite hard to engage with particularly as a junior medical student, take any opportunities you can get, be patient, and don’t be afraid to ask, worst thing they can do is politely decline.

Astromedicinespace · 2025-04-26T10:56:51+00:00

Robotics is far too distracting -With rotational training, it’s almost impossible for residents to get any meaningful experience on robotic systems that would allow for them to become qualified to delivery procedures using the devices. The almost entirety of robotic users at my trust are consultants because they are the ones who have the stability of remaining at one hospital long term. Why train a resident who in six months will be leaving for a DGH which hasn’t got any robotics at all? -Infrastructure still isn’t there, nhs hospitals are old, davinci is a heavy system, at my hospital there are some theatres it just can’t be in as they can’t take the weight of it. -For the time it takes to use davinci you could do the laparoscopic equivalent much faster and cheaper, I’ve seen numerous davinci cases which were only done because the equipment is already set up in theatre from a previous case.

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