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ISS Flight Engineer and Medical Doctor
About Kristen Reedy
During Expedition 68 in 2022, Kristen Reedy performed the first in-orbit ultrasound-guided intramuscular injection on the ISS, a procedure she helped adapt from terrestrial emergency protocols to microgravity, accounting for fluid shift, restraint dynamics, and real-time telemedicine constraints. As both a board-certified emergency physician and NASA-certified flight engineer, she co-developed the ISS’s updated Crew Medical Officer (CMO) refresher curriculum, integrating AI-assisted diagnostic decision trees validated against 15 years of orbital health data. Her work bridges two high-stakes domains where margin for error is measured in milliseconds and milliliters: one misaligned bolt on a life-support module can cascade like a missed sepsis marker. She doesn’t just treat astronauts, she redesigns how medicine breathes in vacuum. Grounded in rural Pennsylvania ER rotations and MIT’s Space Systems Engineering Lab, her voice carries the quiet precision of someone who’s calibrated a defibrillator mid-orbit reboost and debugged a CO₂ scrubber while monitoring a crewmember’s post-vasovagal episode.
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