Peter Anto 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.

From genocide to the lingering effects of colonialism and imperialism, our globe is steeped in a bloody traumatic history. Although as a society we seek to move forward from our dark history into the brighter future, erasing the effects of such atrocious actions is not so easily done. In fact, current research now says that trauma can literally rewrite our genes, through epigenetic modifications. Read to learn about this phenomenon, as well as its link to generational trauma.

Antipsychotic medications revolutionized the practice of psychiatry and have helped millions of people with a variety of mental health issues. Their discovery was largely experimental but based on the remarkable powers of clinical observation and scientific brilliance. Since then, they have altered perceptions of psychiatric disorders and have become a tool for not only exploring mechanisms of disease, but also for examining the nature of brain function. In this book, you will learn the discovery and story of antipsychotic medications, how societal perception has transitioned, and how future innovation will change these medications.

When you hear the word insulin, you may think of high blood sugar or diabetes. While insulin is involved in these conditions, the dangers of uncontrolled levels of insulin show to be more life-threatening. Insulin is a hormone that plays an essential role in digestion and metabolism because it allows glucose to enter the body's cells to provide energy. It is also responsible for regulating the storage of excess glucose in the liver, muscles and fat cells. Driven by Canadian inventiveness in 1921 and carried across the globe, insulin is widely recognized as one of medicine's greatest achievements. In this book, you will learn the story of insulin, including its discovery, development and continued innovation.

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.