{"id":156033,"date":"2026-10-21T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=156033"},"modified":"2026-10-21T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:52:32","slug":"space-capsule-lands-at-ucf-college-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/space-capsule-lands-at-ucf-college-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Capsule Lands at UCF College of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><em>Landing humans on the moon was just a dream when UCF was founded in 1963. But we dared to believe \u2014 developing the talent and inventing the technologies to make it reality. That same spirit still drives us today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We are&nbsp;America\u2019s Space University. And we celebrate UCF Space Week to honor our origin as we dare to build what\u2019s next.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t<section class=\"ucf-section ucf-section-space-week \" style>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"bg-inverse text-inverse\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row no-gutters\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\" col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media-background-container h-100\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-Image-810x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"UCF student adjusts equipment on a large telescope at night, surrounded by cables and machinery, with a starry sky in the background.\" class=\"w-100\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"UCF student adjusts equipment on a large telescope at night, surrounded by cables and machinery, with a starry sky in the background.\" class=\"w-100 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-Image-810x400-1.jpg\"><br>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\" col-md-6\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"media-background-container h-100 d-flex flex-column align-items-center justify-content-center text-center\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-BG-800x400-1.jpg\" alt class=\" media-background object-fit-cover\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt class=\" media-background object-fit-cover lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-BG-800x400-1.jpg\">\n<div class=\"w-75 mx-auto pt-3\">\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-Lockup.png\" alt=\"UCF Space Week Oct. 25-30, 2026\" class=\"w-100\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"UCF Space Week Oct. 25-30, 2026\" class=\"w-100 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/09\/2608-BNR-Today-Story-Promo-Space-Week-Lockup.png\">\n<p class=\"text-center pt-4 line-height-1 font-size-sm\">Where Global Leaders Unite to Forge the Future of Space<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\n<hr>\n<p>A space capsule is becoming the UCF College of Medicine\u2019s newest classroom and research lab.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Space, a Colorado-based private aerospace and defense technologies company, donated the 22-foot-long life-sized model of their Shooting Star cargo module, which is capable of delivering supplies and equipment to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156035\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img size-full wp-image-156035 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine.jpg\" alt=\"A white cone-shaped craft with the words &quot;Sierra Space&quot; displayed on the body of the structure\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img size-full wp-image-156035 img-fluid lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"A white cone-shaped craft with the words &quot;Sierra Space&quot; displayed on the body of the structure\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/Sierra-Space-Capsule-Ship-ucf-medicine.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">The model of the Sierra Space Shooting Star cargo module will soon be a unique, interactive classroom and research facility at the UCF College of Medicine. (Photo by Eddy Duryea \u201913\u202f)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The gift recognizes UCF\u2019s reputation as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/space\/\">America\u2019s Space University<\/a> and the medical school\u2019s emerging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/the-future-of-aerospace-medicine-starts-here\/\">aerospace medicine program<\/a>, which is exploring how space flight impacts the human body and how that knowledge can drive innovation into diagnostics, treatment and disease prevention for patients on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The model was housed at Kennedy Space Center \u2014 located roughly 30 miles from UCF\u2019s campus \u2014 where it was used as a design reference for engineers and a training tool for in-space cargo transfer. The module attaches to a Sierra Space Dream Chaser spaceplane and in the future could potentially to deliver up to 12,000 pounds of cargo, including science experiments, research equipment and medical supplies to space stations.<\/p>\n<p>The mockup is almost identical to a real module with a hatch that docks with the spacecraft and a section of storage lockers that hold resupply materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s only a handful of ships that can take payloads to low Earth orbit,\u201d says Emmanuel Urquieta, the College of Medicine\u2019s vice chair for aerospace medicine and director of UCF\u2019s new Center for Aerospace and Extreme Environments Medicine (<a href=\"https:\/\/med.ucf.edu\/aerospace-medicine\/caseem-center-for-aerospace\/\">CASEEM<\/a>). \u201cThis module is a true-to-size mock-up that is fully aligned with what will actually fly into space.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156036\" style=\"max-width: 1200px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-156036 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian man with cropped, gray hair and brunette woman lay on stomachs, propped on their elbows, in long metal chamber\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-360x240.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-156036 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"An Asian man with cropped, gray hair and brunette woman lay on stomachs, propped on their elbows, in long metal chamber\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%201200%20800%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine-360x240.jpg 360w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2026\/10\/interior-sierra-space-capsule-ucf-medicine.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">The module is almost identical to what actually will fly in space and will allow UCF students and faculty to better understand the logistics and practicalities of maintaining the health of space travelers. (Photo courtesy of Sierra Space)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Dedicated to Keeping Space Travelers Healthy<\/h2>\n<p>CASEEM is a multidisciplinary center that includes UCF faculty experts in medicine, engineering, computer science, psychology, arts and educational leadership who will work together to research and develop new technologies for keeping space travelers healthy as well as soldiers on military missions, deep sea explorers and mountain climbers.<\/p>\n<p>UCF will use the module to give students and faculty precise training to address medical events in the confines of a spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The model also will help researchers create technologies for improving payloads and establishing protocols to send materials into the tight spaces of intergalactic travel. Such technologies and strategies also could be used in combat zones, on submarines and in remote and isolated areas of Earth, Urquieta says.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is a rare piece of technology that the UCF Aerospace Medicine program is privileged to use for research.\u201d \u2014 Ed Powers, CASEEM\u2019s medical director<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis module brings human spaceflight to life for students and researchers at UCF,\u201d says William (Ed) Powers, CASEEM\u2019s medical director, who worked as director of flight medicine for Axiom Space and chief of NASA\u2019s Medical Operations Branch before joining UCF. \u201cIt is a rare piece of technology that the UCF Aerospace Medicine program is privileged to use for research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university is working to create a location for the module.<\/p>\n<p>The donated module grew out of a longstanding professional relationship between aerospace medicine faculty members with Tom Marshburn, chief astronaut and vice president of programs at Sierra Space. Marshburn spent 28 years at NASA, where he was on three space flights and served as medical operations lead for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSierra Space is proud to support the UCF\u2019s College of Medicine and its aerospace medicine program by providing our life-size mockup of our Dream Chaser cargo module,\u201d Marshburn says. \u201cHumans will interface with the actual Dream Chaser spaceplane and its cargo module when it arrives at the ISS or a commercial LEO destination, and we look forward to working with UCF medical students, physicians and faculty on the insights the mockup vehicle can provide for human factors studies, in aerospace and mechanical engineering, and in potential space medical capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Space has donated a life-sized cargo module that will serve as an immersive classroom, research center and a visual testament to UCF\u2019s emerging aerospace medicine 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