Did You Know that NASA is Hiring Nurses?!

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"We choose to go to the Moon, we choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.” - JFK


Did you know that NASA hires Nurses! Yes, that is correct; nurses can work for NASA at locations around the states as researchers, educators, emergency personnel, and many other occupations. There is also the commercial space sector, with operations like Blue Horizon and Space X, which intend to have nurses head into space directly. There is no limit to how a nurse can participate in the ever-changing healthcare landscape.

For a deeper dive, working at NASA will have you training astronauts on managing medical emergencies in space and performing research to create interventions like space anemia. Scientists believe it is related to a lack of gravity affecting the production of RBCs; this creates many problems that could create a greater risk to human life and the successful completion of mission objectives as we look to the stars and the heavens beyond.

Here are some links to job postings and some information on the roles of nurses in space.


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jocn.16092
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01637-7
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/508554
https://govtjobs.us/job/spacex-hiring-for-space-operations-nurse-contract-at-cape-canaveral-fl/?utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic

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