Few doctors get to go on real space missions, but they do conduct space research, often in extreme locations, Mun-Keat Looi reports
### Biographies
#### Mission control: Sushmita Ramanujam
Radiology specialty registrar at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Sushmita has worked for the independent UK organisation Space Health Research as first aider in the Mission Control team for analogue missions.
#### Antarctic explorer: Beth Healey
Emergency medicine doctor working in Switzerland.
As research MD for the European Space Agency (ESA), Beth spent a winter at the Concordia base in Antarctica, known as “White Mars.”
#### Chief medical officer: Rochelle Velho
Clinical teaching fellow with experience in acute medicine, anaesthesia, and intensive care medicine.
Rochelle was chief medical officer for the Austrian Space Forum and has participated in expeditions to test space suits in extreme environments such as the Dhofar desert in Oman.
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