Join the Crusade
to Conquer the Final Frontier
The crusade to advance astronaut health is among humanity's most vital missions as we venture beyond Earth's protective embrace. While brave astronauts push the boundaries of human exploration, their bodies wage an invisible war against the harsh realities of space -- radiation damage, bone loss, muscle atrophy, and genetic mutations -- that threaten every mission to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
Yet the molecular data that would establish dominion over these cosmic challenges remains trapped within the labyrinthine bureaucracy of governments, medical institutions, and research committees.
That data is our holy grail for our conquest of the stars, and this is our rallying cry to liberate that captive knowledge from the regulatory red tape and institutional silos that confine it. Every spacewalk, every minute in zero gravity, every mission past the Kármán generates precious molecular insights that could protect future explorers -- but only if we can free this data from bureaucratic chains.
Unite with us to forge an open alliance of space medicine researchers and future space explorers. The cosmos awaits, but first we must conquer the earthbound barriers that keep life-saving knowledge locked away when our celestial pioneers need it most.
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Join, or Die on Earth.
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~Eliah G. Overbey
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Campaign Pledges
The Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) has opened a competition for seats on an upcoming Blue Origin New Shepard flight.
I am vying for that seat and pledging the following upon a successful campaign:
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1. To create a pathway for open-science sharing of molecular, particularly omics, data through the Personal Genome Project (PGP).
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2. To deposit my own molecular and omics data generated from the SERA mission into PGP.
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3. To create educational curricula to train the next generation of space researchers and explorers on molecular medicine & spaceflight using astronaut data in PGP.
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4. To recruit future astronauts to contribute their molecular and omics data through education, conferences, publications.
Mission Imperatives
I. Conquest over government censorship
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II. Distribute data to the masses
I. Conquest over government censorship
In 2024, I published the largest compendium of astronaut molecular and omics data that has ever been generated and gave it away for free to the scientific community. That is, until the government censored it.
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The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) is a collection datasets that was generated from the Inspiration4 mission. At the time of it's publication, it constituted over 90% of all astronaut data available publicly to the scientific community. Since its inception, we are now working on samples collected from the Polaris Dawn, Axiom-2 and NS-26 mission to further expand the size of the dataset.
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In it's brief time it was available, it was already being used by scientists around the world and was the backbone of a publication package with the Nature Publishing Group that included 44 distinct publications. This dataset elevated our ability to study astronaut health, or, at least, it did, until NASA scrubbed it from their database. My nonprofit BioAstra is working on pathways to restore access to this data for researchers. But open-science pathways, such as PGP, would safeguard against government censorship of future datasets.​
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II. Distribute Data to the Masses
Do you seek to wield astronaut data in the classroom? Forge educational content from these precious data? Under current IRBs (Institutional Review Boards), these noble pursuits remain forbidden. The data lies imprisoned, accessible only to researchers operating under restrictive IRB decrees.
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Publishing data to PGP breaks these chains of oversight, allowing educators and students to directly access this vital intelligence. This liberation enables the creation of curricula and academic programs that work directly with astronaut data, which will transform understanding from the exclusive domain of research fortresses to the eager minds of students.
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By opening this knowledge from the research battlements to the student ranks below, we forge a better-educated rising generation of cosmic crusaders. No longer shall promising young minds be denied the very data that could inspire their journey to the stars.
This is how we build an battalion of space medicine pioneers, armed with real astronaut insights from their very first lessons.
I want you!
Community support is vital to securing a seat on SERA's upcoming mission.
The first phase of the competition is scored like a video game. To continue to the next phase of the competition, I need to collect points called "Star Dust" to increase my competitor rank.
You can help generate Star Dust in the following ways:
(1) Follow the Campaign
Each social media view earns Star Dust. Simply follow my accounts to help the cause.
(2) Jump into the Fray
Join SERA's platform, hosted on Telegram, using my referral link. This helps in two ways:
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(1) You can use Star Dust that you generate to vote for me in later rounds of the competition.
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(2) You can post on social media with the hashtag #SERASpace and I will automatically collect 10% of the Stardust you earn. So promoting an the cause and getting views will directly help the campaign.
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Join at the Telegram referral linked here.
(Update: There's currently a bug in the SERA app. Please download Telegram first, then follow the referral link. I've been told the team is working on a fix. Thank you!)
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(3) Platform the Rally Cry
Help me find avenues to promote my message. Reach out on the contact form for podcasts, shows, and written article opportunities.
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JOIN THE FIGHT
Endorsements
Organizations
Personal Genome Project
The Personal Genome Project proudly supports Dr. Eliah Overbey’s Astronaut Campaign, a bold initiative to share astronaut molecular and omics data with the scientific community and the public. By pledging to deposit mission-generated data into PGP, Dr. Overbey strengthens our shared commitment to open science, enabling researchers, educators, and students to work with high-quality, real-world data. This campaign exemplifies the transparency, collaboration, and forward-thinking vision that will propel human health and space medicine forward. We stand behind this mission and its promise to expand access, foster innovation, and chart new frontiers for all of us.
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SOMA Astronaut Summit
The SOMA Astronaut Summit unites researchers with astronauts who have contributed molecular and omic data to scientific study. Genomic data in PGP would enable us not only to support additional research, but to create Hackathons and educational curricula using astronaut data. We wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Overbey's campaign and her vision to accelerating space medicine research and education.
Ursa Bio
Ursa Bio is happy to endorse Dr. Eliah Overbey’s astronaut campaign. As pioneers in space biotechnology, we recognize the extraordinary importance of transparent, open access to astronaut molecular and omics data. By contributing mission-derived datasets to shared platforms, this campaign will accelerate discovery in space health, improve interventions for radiation, muscle loss, bone degradation, cognitive decline, and more. Ultimately this will help us fulfill our mission of “Space Care” for long-duration spaceflight and beyond.
Individuals
George Church, PhD
Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Principal Investigator of PGP
Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek, PhD
CEO, Curii Corporation
Expert in Informatics
Co-Founder, PGP
Christopher Mason, PhD
Professor of Genomics
Weill Cornell Medicine
Expert in Astronaut Omics
Yash Shevde
Founder and CEO
Ursa Bio
Expert in Spacecare
Begum Mathyk, MD, OBGYN
Associate Prof. Obstetrics and Gynacology
University of South Florida
Expert in women's health in space
Joseph Borg, PhD
Prof. Applied Biomedical Science
University of Malta
Expert in blood disorders in space