Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 243, from Stars to Scans.

I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and

astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

For more than 21 years the International Space Station has been continuously

occupied and thousands of experiments have taken place.

Sometimes technologies develop for experiments on one thing can be used for an entirely different thing.

And this was the thought for one doctor who was intrigued with

NASA Goddard's webinar over X-ray communications as he explains the design

originally for astrophysics and how it could be translated into the medical field to save human lives.

Dr. Rajiv Gupta, director of the Advanced X-ray Imaging Sciences Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is currently using a

patented modulated x-ray source or MXS to help develop a more compact and faster CT scanner for humans.

Funny enough, the MXS was developed for a star gazing experiment called NASA's

Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer or Nyser, which observes neutron stars from aboard the International Space Station.

To explain more about MXS and Nyser, we have Dr. Keith Gendro, principal investigator of Nyser, and the Station Explorer for X-ray timing and

Navigation Technology, or Sextant from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and he's talking about

what's happening in space with these technologies.

And of course we also have Dr. Rajiv Gupta talking about the benefits here on Earth

and in the medical field. With that, let's get right into it. Mark.

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