Health and Wellbeing

Astronomy for Wellbeing

For this year's Youth Mental Health Day (19th September) and World Mental Health Day (10th October), we've put together some of our activities that can be used to help promote good mental and physical health.

Valeri Polyakov

Valeri Polyakov
Credit: http://encyclopedia.mil.ru

Occupation: Cosmonaut

Year born: 1942

Research Areas: Medicine, Spaceflight

"We can fly to Mars."

Samantha Cristoforetti

Samantha Cristoforetti
Credit: ESA/NASA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Occupation: Astronaut, Pilot and Engineer

Year born: 1977

Research Areas: Mechanical Engineering, Aviation, Aeronautics

Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison
Credit: NASA

Occupation: Astronaut

Year born: 1956

Research Areas: Chemical Engineering, Medicine

Tim Peake

Tim Peake
Credit: NASA

Occupation: Astronaut

Year born: 1972

Research Areas: Flight Dynamics, Aviation

Human Space Flight

Astronaut Bruce McCandless floating freely
in his space suit
Credit: NASA

How many astronauts can you name? Maybe 1 or 2? Well done if you can name more than 5! But did you know more than 500 people from more than 30 countries have been to space?!