Last 0g campaign of the year already? The year since my flight assignment has been incredible, fitting in 8 additional parabolic research flights with my teammates and research collaborators, advancing my own skill in microgravity operations & testing payloads that may come with me to space! ✨️🛬🛫🛬✨️

Microgravity game face on, let's do this! 🛬🛫🛬

Some flight days you get ahead of the weather...some days, the weather gets ahead of you... 😶‍🌫️🌬🌫🛫

Microgravity flight week in Ottawa let's goooo! 🛫🛬🛫🛬

Why do we do what we do? For moments like these...and so they can make moments of their own. ❤️🚀💫🇮🇪🍀 #yesshecan #pushthelimits #womeninstem #astronaut

Thank you to Deputy Erin Mc Greehan for hosting myself and Dr. Norah Patten at Leinster House this week to meet with leaders and dignitaries to talk about our upcoming research spaceflight & ongoing work with the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences Flight Opportunities Program! 🚀🇮🇪🇨🇦👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀

Well done to TERG PI Aamir Hameed and Lisa McNamee on organising such an interesting keynote event here in @rcsi.bsky.social today on Space Medicine, with two incredibly impressive female astronauts, Norah Patten and @shawnapandya.bsky.social speaking!

Q. Where do extreme medics practice? A. (you had to know this was coming) Thanks to all my World Extreme Medicine friends for another incredible conference! ...Same time next year? 😅🏥🌏🐍

How incredibly special to kick off Day 1 of the World Extreme Medicine Conference as a panelist & subject matter expert on the future of space medicine with my friends NASA astronaut/physician Dr. Mike Barratt and Antarctic explorer & critical care physician Dr. Carole Dangoisse! 👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏽‍🚀🏥🚀✨️

Ireland! The press & outreach you've been asking for so long is here! I am thrilled to announce that Norah and I will be doing press & outreach in Dublin & Galway Nov 17-21, more details here! See you there? 🇮🇪🇨🇦🍀🍁👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️ www.linkedin.com/posts/embass...

I had an amazing time keynoting in Calgary, sharing my lessons on success, failure, resilience, teamwork & leadership. The journey I've taken as a physician, astronaut & aquanaut has taught me so much about pushing the limits...and I hope it's inspired others, too. ❤️

This is the part they don't teach you in med school. 🫶🏽🏥

I had a blast taking the stage to talk Space Medicine the Society for Emergency Medicine of India's National Emergency Medicine conference, EMCON25, in Delhi! Same time next year?👩🏽‍⚕️ 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🇮🇳🏥

Goodbye Bangalore, hello Delhi! How cool to be taking the stage to speak about space medicine at India's national Emergency Medicine conference, EMCON 2025! Thanks to my hosts at the Society for Emergency Medicine India for having me! 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🏥🇮🇳 #emcon #emergencymedicine #spacemedicine #astronaut

"What does it mean to you to represent your work in India with your Gujurati background?" India represents my roots. Everything I know about hard work, determination & big dreams came from this background. I want Indians everywhere know that not even the sky is the limit. 🚀🇮🇳👩🏽‍🚀✨️

How wonderful to have met ISRO Gaganaut Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to visit the International Space Station! Shux was incredibly down to Earth, and we had a great conversation about India's future human spaceflight plans. Looking forward to future conversations. Jai hind! 🚀🇮🇳✨️

Happy 25th birthday @Space_Station! Incredible to think there are 25yo alive today who have never known a world without a continuously crewed presence in space, for whom it is totally normal that people just live & work in space! Excited to see what the next decade of human spaceflight brings. 🌎🚀✨️

Hopeful. Mind-expanding. Purposeful. Those are just some of the many ways to describe #Visioneering. We were able to get all three top prize ideas funded at this year’s event. Our prizes prove philanthropy can deliver 60x ROI in global impact. Learn more: www.xprize.org/news/impact-... #Innovation

Such a joy to share the stage with my friends Dr. Mariam Fardous from the @saudispace.bsky.social and Dr. Amelie Schoenenwald from @esa.int this past week during the Karman Project Fellowship Week . Next step...fly a mission together? 🤔

What an honor to be asked to share my closing reflections at the SatSure | Karman Project Gala. Coming to India this week was like coming home & the future of space in India will rest on the diverse array of talent and technology here- fueled by imagination & cooperation. 🚀🇮🇳

I've been making all sorts of friends this trip. 🥺🐇❤️

"Can you tell us about your astronaut journey?" This was my favorite audience question at The Karman Project meet and greet with our SatSure hosts to date. Here are the things no one tells you when you are assigned to a spaceflight: 1/

Goodbye Malibu, hello India! 26 hours later, I am in here to kick off Karman week with Karman Project Fellows from all around the world. We will spend the week discussing pressing topics affecting space today- and what we can do about it. I can't wait to get to work! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀🌏

We did it!! We are an @xprize.org Top 5 Finalist! Here is the full run-down on our SkinFinity prize concept: www.linkedin.com/posts/shawna...

How extraordinary to be living in an era where we are limited only by our imagination when it comes to envisioning the breakthroughs that will build the best possible future for humanity. ♥️🚀🏥 @xprize.org

What an extraordinary first day here at the @xprize.org Visioneering Session in Malibu. I can't wait to present our space health concept tomorrow, in the hopes of creating a new challenge that can revolutionize a breakthrough in 3D tissue printing for better wound care in space- and on Earth. 🚀🏥✨️

What's in a backflip? A lot, as it turns out! It looks like a lot of fun, but it also lets us test the range of motion of our new biosuits, practice joint microgravity choreography, and get familiar with stabilizing ourselves in microgravity. And it's *definitely* a lot of fun! 👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀🦹‍♀️🦹🏽‍♀️🛫🛬🛫

A very joyous & prosperous Diwali from me to you! May your hard work, aspirations and dreams soar to new heights this year...and in every year that follows. 🪔✨️🪔✨️🪔✨️

Our IIAS-02 research missions & science campaigns are the product of incredible people & partnerships, from our IIAS ground crew, to our partners at NRC Canada, to the 17 incredible collaborating scientists & 12 payloads we tested in parabolic flight this week...

The IIAS-02 down-select week is here! This week, @spacenorah and I will be testing these payloads in 0g together with our collaborators from all over the world at the National Research Council of Canada to see how these payloads fare in a space-like environment. We can't wait! 👩🏻‍🚀👩🏽‍🚀👩🏻‍🚀🛫🛬🛫🍁

Did you know that astronauts travel in packs called a constellation? That's not true, but it should be! One of the joys of events like the International Astronautical Congress and the Karman Project gala is reuniting with astronaut friends new and old! Same time next year? 🌏👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️🌌

One of my roles at IAC is sitting on the IAF Human Spaceflight Committee. Since joining last year, I've taken on preparing the annual human spaceflight briefing. One of my favorite highlights this year? Sunita Williams setting a new record spacewalk hours by a woman at 62h06min! ✨️👩🏽‍🚀🚀 Photo: IAF

It was a pleasure to meet with Western Australian Minister for Regional Development, Ports, Science & Innovation & Medical Research Stephen Dawson (right) to discuss how space-based medical & life sciences research benefits life on Earth. Thanks for hosting us! 🇦🇺🚀

One of the most meaningful parts of this role is what it means to be a Canadian on a global stage. Thank you to the High Commission of Canada to Australia & the Canadian Space Agency for having me speak on my suborbital research work at IIAS & the many synergies between Canada & Australia. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

Find yourself the kind of life where you wake up in the morning and ask yourself, "do I really get to do this?!" In my case, "this" refers to building an entire research astronautics program (!!).

I don't always do black tie...but when I do, I go all in. Had a wonderful time at the The Karman Project Space Peace Prize Gala dinner tonight. Amazing endeavors are afoot. 🚀✨️ #IAC2025 #karmanproject #space #astronaut #sydney #australia

IAC Sydney 2025 is on! Looking forward to presenting my paper on programmatic & mission updates from our upcoming IIAS-02 suborbital research mission & IIAS Flight Opportunities Program. Come check out my presentation Sept 30 at 1125 in C3.3! 🚀✨️👩🏽‍🚀

There are not many women heading up major space agencies across the world, but the Canadian Space Agency's Lisa Campbell offers so many lessons in strong leadership around intelligence, eloquence & knowledge. What a great example in quiet confidence and competence. 🇨🇦✨️🚀

Astronauts versus aliens? By popular demand, I'm back with @setiinstitute.bsky.social CEO Bill Diamond trying to tell him how amazing human spaceflight is...but man is it hard to impress a guy who measures distance not just by light-years...but hundreds of millions of light-years 🤯🌌

One of my roles as a research astronaut is to educate as to the value of space for scientific advancement & return for Earth. It was my honor to write the foreword & help launch the Forrest Research Foundation's Perth Dialogue on The Case for Space. 🚀🌏🌌👩🏽‍🚀 Read it here: share.google/gfLpWYCav09n...

My time here in Perth has been full of highlights, including spending time with the one and only @setiinstitute.bsky.social Institute CEO Bill Diamond...so of course I had to ask him where they hide the aliens. He had something to say in turn... 🤔

This job is an absolute joy, and I count myself extraordinarily lucky to be able to connect with and inspire future space explorers like Jack and Emily through my work. Maybe I'll see you in space someday? Thank you to the Forrest Research Foundation for organizing this wonderful opportunity. 🚀🏥👩🏽‍🚀✨️

Traveling for 31 hours so far with 7 more to go but I think the smile says it all. Grateful for this job that lets me travel the world that lets me talk science, exploration and innovation across borders, disciplines and cultures. 👩🏽‍🚀🚀✨️

So excited to leverage my background in space medicine to pitch a new concept for this year's @xprize.org Space & Exploration track. Amazing experience to work with an organization that I've admired for so long to catalyze exponential change against grand challenges. 🥰🩺👩🏽‍🚀🚀🏥✨️

Your friendly doctor-scientist-astronaut here, just to reassure you that I don't just hop on and off planes, sometimes I do meaningful work at my destinations, too. Here is my @xprize.org work explained in 80 seconds. 🌏🚀🏥👩🏽‍🚀✨️ #science #xprize #astronaut #medicine #spacemedicine

Another crazy weekend in the ER (apparently it's me, hi, I'm the black cloud 👋🏽🌫), so I got to thinking about how it is that I thrive in chaos- inside the ER and out. I think it's like my dad says, it's the same way you eat an elephant: one bite at a time (also pls don't eat elephants 🐘🫶🏽).

Women's health doesn't stop when the gravity does...so how might we diagnose gynecological and pelvic pathologies that happen mid-space mission? Check out our new study on PoCUS for pelvic organ imaging in microgravity! 🚀🏥🚺👩🏽‍🚀 Link to study: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40706033/

Visited my friends at Cooper & O'Hara Photography today and walked in to a familiar sight, so I had to take a picture! 👩🏽‍🚀🚀📸

🚨PSA🚨 Are you just super healthy...or have you just put off seeing a doctor for WAY too long? Late presentations to the doctor can mean catastrophic consequences for your health. Save this, share this, send it to whoever needs to hear it. You may just save a life.

Space is hard, and space is trying to kill us. Thanks, @vox.com, for including me in your write-up on the challenges of space medicine in the era of commercial spaceflight and exploration-class missions. What is space medicine? www.vox.com/future-perfe... 👩🏽‍🚀🚀🏥