Founder & Director @ASRI4SPACE, Researcher, Pilot, Speaker
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Joined September 2016
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Astronauts returning to Earth take a while to adjust to Earth’s gravity. This is for a healthy adult who spent a relatively short amount of time in low g. Imagine how difficult it would be for a child born in a lower gravity environment to come to Earth. That might be impossible.
Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride (except for maybe gravity!). Here’s a peek into our first @Space_Station post-flight data collection session, immediately after landing in the helicopter after our @SpaceX Dragon splashdown last Thursday. The heel toe walk with eyes open was doable, but definitely off my balance game once they had me repeat with eyes closed (shown here). Exponentially better performance even just the next day, such an interesting recovery process! Stay tuned for the week’s recap of science and rehabilitation.
Alex Layendecker retweeted
After three straight months of massive job growth, and over a HALF MILLION jobs created, even the mainstream media can’t deny it:
President Trump has brought the Great American Job-Creation Machine back to life!
Alex Layendecker retweeted
I’m devastated. A good friend and dormmate of mine, Amin Pourfarhang, has been sentenced to death after protesting in Iran 😭 He’s one of the kindest people I’ve ever known.
Please share. Visibility raises the cost for the Islamic Republic and may stop this execution!
Alex Layendecker retweeted
🚨 URGENT:
She’s been sentenced to be stoned to death in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 for being a woman Taekwondo 🥋 coach and training young women .
Her name is Khadija Ahmadzada and she’s only 22 years old .
Her only chance of survival is if you can share this post,create awareness❗️
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Amazing time (finally) recording this podcast with Dr. @AlexLayendecker, Dr. Simon Dube & producer Stavroula Toska on sexuality and reproduction in the spaceflight environment today! Can't wait to share more! 🏥🚀❤️
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One action today can protect decades of discovery.
RR-20 showed that spaceflight may change life across generations — a breakthrough we can’t afford to lose.
Help protect the science that protects our future.
Donate: savethespacemice.com
🐭 #SaveTheSpaceMice #GivingTuesday 🚀
We do what we can with the time that we have, so that we might make the biggest impact in this life. This #GivingTuesday2025, please consider contributing to saving a crucial scientific experiment that has just begun to bear its greatest fruit for humanity. #SaveTheSpaceMice
This #GivingTuesday, help protect a piece of human history.
RR-20, NASA’s final rodent mission, holds irreplaceable science about how life adapts in space. Losing this data means losing a decade of progress.
Be part of the mission: savethespacemice.com 🐭✨
Alex Layendecker retweeted
✨ Cosmic fact: RR-20’s space-flown mice had grand-pups who showed gene-expression changes… despite never going to space. 🧬🐭
Space didn’t just touch them — it echoed through generations.
Help protect their story and our future: savethespacemice.com 🚀
#SaveTheSpaceMice
Alex Layendecker retweeted
The RR-20 mice launched to help answer a single question: Can life continue beyond Earth?
Now their research is in danger.
Join ASRI’s #SaveTheSpaceMice campaign and keep this mission alive.
Donate: savethespacemice.com 🚀🧬
Alex Layendecker retweeted
Earth raised us. Mars calls us.
RR-20’s space-flown mice helped reveal how life adapts beyond gravity—but their research is now at risk.
ASRI is calling on all of us to protect this science and #SaveTheSpaceMice.
Support the mission: savethespacemice.com 🚀
Alex Layendecker retweeted
I want to make the world a little safer before I become a mom.
And mind your business.
Alex Layendecker retweeted
RR-20’s ISS mice revealed how life adapts across generations in space—but their irreplaceable data is at risk. 🌍✨
ASRI is launching a 42-day global campaign to #SaveTheSpaceMice and protect this crucial research for our multiplanet future.
Join us: asri.space/save-the-space-mi… 🚀
Alex Layendecker retweeted
Introducing the Cosmouse Mission Series, the next phase in humanity’s study of life beyond Earth. Building on decades of space biology, these missions will explore how mammalian reproduction and adaptation unfold across generations in orbit. 🐭#ASRI #SaveTheSpaceMice #Cosmouse
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In 2023, 40 female mice flew aboard SpaceX CRS-29 for NASA’s final Rodent Research mission, RR-20. For 42 days on the ISS, they helped uncover how life adapts and reproduces in microgravity—a $16 million legacy of data now at risk of being lost. #ASRI #SaveTheSpaceMice #RR20
Alex Layendecker retweeted
A statement from the family of Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell on his passing:
"We are saddened to announce the passing of our beloved father, USN Captain James A. "Jim" Lovell, a Navy pilot and officer, astronaut, leader, and space explorer. He was 97.
We are enormously proud of his amazing life and career accomplishments, highlighted by his legendary leadership in pioneering human space flight. But, to all of us, he was Dad, Granddad, and the Leader of our family. Most importantly, he was our Hero. We will miss his unshakeable optimism, his sense of humor, and the way he made each of us feel we could do the impossible. He was truly one of a kind."
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Listen to the full episode for a mind-bending, often hilarious, but ultimately sobering look at the real “final frontier. The Weekend Intelligence – Can we make babies in space?
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