A space experiment from the living room | Matej Poliaček | TEDxBratislava

Matej Poliaček, Flight Director and researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), oversees the daily operations of the European Columbus laboratory module on the International Space Station. He connects astronauts with mission control teams in Europe and NASA in Houston, and studies the human body in microgravity. The talk asks how space missions could be made accessible to people with common conditions such as asthma. The RESPIRE project tracks aerosol movement to explore how inhalers could work in space.

• Flight operations for the Columbus module on the ISS
• Access to space missions for people with common health conditions
• RESPIRE project: aerosol tracking and inhalers in space

[SK] Čo keď vznikne potreba vyslať do vesmíru experta s astmou? Matej skúma, ako sprístupniť misie do vesmíru aj ľuďom s bežnými diagnózami. [EN] What happens when we start seeing the body as a system, not a collection of muscles? Michal shifts our perspective on why movement begins not with muscles, but with how we think about the body. [SK] Matej Poliaček, riaditeľ letovej prevádzky a výskumník v Nemeckom centre pre letectvo a kozmonautiku (DLR), riadi každodenný chod európskeho laboratórneho modulu Columbus na Medzinárodnej vesmírnej stanici (ISS). Prepája astronautov s riadiacimi tímami v Európe a NASA v Houstone. Zároveň skúma ľudské telo v mikrogravitácii. Projekt RESPIRE sleduje pohyb aerosólov a skúma, ako by vo vesmíre fungoval inhalátor a čo to znamená pre budúcnosť letov. [EN] Matej Poliaček, Flight Director and researcher at the German Aerospace Center, oversees the daily operations of the European Columbus laboratory module aboard the International Space Station. He connects astronauts with mission control teams in Europe and NASA in Houston. He also studies the human body in microgravity. The RESPIRE project tracks aerosols and explores how inhalers could work in space and what this could mean for the future of space travel. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx