Mark Shelhamer Author

Mark Shelhamer is a pioneering human spaceflight researcher specializing in sensorimotor function and neurovestibular adaptations, with backgrounds in electrical and biomedical engineering. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins Human Spaceflight Laboratory, a professor of otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the former Chief Scientist of the Human Research Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Shelhamer serves as the Vice President for the Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and an advisor for the Organization for Space Medicine, Engineering, and Design. Brian Gallagher is a writer and editor who has commissioned award-winning stories which have been featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best Writing on Mathematics. An editor at Ergo, and former editor at Nautilus, his journalism has also been recognized by The New Yorker and others. Gallagher is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School and studied philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara.