John Christy Johnson

Mission AstroAccess is an organization dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space exploration. In October 2021, the pilot cohort of Disabled Ambassadors were launched into orbit on a Zero Gravity Corporation parabolic flight to experience weightlessness and investigate microgravity accessibility solutions. The second AstroAccess Flight will take place on November 19, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This book serves to outline the stories and perspectives of those who participated in this historical initiative. Several of the authors have shadowed, interviewed, and studied the members of the Mission AstroAccess crew and have been involved in extensive research surrounding the mission, the team, and their backgrounds. Over the course of this book, we will be introduced to several characters that have played critical roles in the shaping of Mission AstroAccess.

Let's talk about e-mental health - our psychological well-being in an electronic space. This electronic space can be any aspect of the digital world, including virtual reality, social media, apps, and websites. While we explore its developments, we face its dangers as well. From the individual psyche to our shared social systems, E-Mental Health and the Modern Mind: Developments, Dangers, and Destruction looks at the factors that adversely affect one's mental health in an electronic space. As this digital world grows more prominent in our everyday lives, we must look at our evolving environmental contexts and rethink our conventional delivery methods of mental health care.

E-mental health has brought about massive changes to the landscape of healthcare delivery, social health, and even on the geo-political scale. Along with these massive technological leaps, there are accompanying repercussions that are not all beneficial. When we break it down, the prefix e- indicates electronic and mental health refers to our psychological well-being. When combined, we draw the expansive definition for e-mental health: our psychological well-being in an electronic space. This electronic space can be any aspect of the digital world - virtual reality, social media, entertainment, apps, websites, etc. As it entrenches itself into our everyday life, we must explore its benefits but stay skeptical to its detriments.