aerospace medicine

“What if somebody develops appendicitis?” says Natacha Chough, an emergency medical physician and professor of aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Over the years, it’s meant reading about everything from Egyptology to aerospace medicine.

A team of aerospace medicine professionals, flight surgeons and spaceflight experts created the exhibit featuring dozens of artifacts ranging from flight suits and space suits to tools of the trade and airsickness bags.

Keri’s husband, Stephen, chief of aerospace medicine of the New Mexico Air National Guard, had gotten a call from the state’s department of health.

An Iowa native, Norman earned his medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed a residency in family medicine in Texas - also receiving aerospace medicine training at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio.