Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Every Starship Enterprise needs its Bones. Part of an international team developing an Advanced Life Support Guideline for Microgravity, Christina Mackaill founded Scotland’s first space medicine society in 2016 and is now on the medical team conducting a simulated astronaut mission in Israel’s Negev Desert. She talks about her remarkable career and offers fascinating insight into one of medicine’s final frontiers.


Dr Mackaill is Clinical Fellow at Crosshouse University Hospital in Kilmarnock.