MD Anderson Cancer Center & NASA visited Juntendo University to get help from children fighting cancer in the creation of a new space suit.
Inspired by the connection between, “science, technology, arts, and the human spirt” the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a Space Suit Art Project to raise awareness about childhood cancer by using children fighting cancer’s artwork to create an actual space suit. Members of the project MD Anderson Director of Arts in Medicine Program Ian SCOTT and retired NASA astronaut Nicole STOTT along with retired Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut YAMAZAKI Naoko visited Juntendo University Main Hospital Department of Pediatrics on September 8, 2016 to get the help of children in the department. The Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine Professor SHIMIZU Toshiaki gave the events opening remarks encouraging all of the children to paint their dreams. Throughout the event Director Ian SCOTT and astronauts Nicole STOTT and YAMAZAKI Naoko talked with the children and their parents while they painted, sharing smiles along the way. MD Anderson and NASA will use the artwork from the children in Juntendo University along with the painting from other children around the world to create a new space suit.
