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Hurricane Harvey’s damaging reach included the simulated NASA space mission in which Richard Addante, a CSUSB assistant professor of psychology, was a crew member.
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Rick Addante, assistant professor of psychology, was part of a NASA crew that simulated a space mission called HERA XIV to an asteroid this past summer, helping the agency research the effects of long-duration space flights.
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Richard Addante, an assistant professor of psychology, was interviewed about the important role of cognitive neuroscience in deep-space missions. Addante was a crewmember on HERA XIV, a simulated space mission, this past summer.
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Richard Addante will present “Come Learn About NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog Experiment,” April 19 from noon to 1:30 p.m.at the Faculty Center for Excellence in the John M. Pfau Library.