Boryung Hosts HIS Youth Final...Korean Students' Works to Be Sent to the Moon for the First Time

Final Round of Space Medicine Competition

Theme: "Solving Humanity's Health Issues on the Moon"

Award-Winning Works to Be Sent to the Moon via NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Time Capsule

Boryung announced on August 3 that it held the final round of the 3rd Humans In Space Youth (HIS Youth) competition at Yonsei University on August 1.

Participants of the 3rd HIS Youth are taking a commemorative photo after the final competition. Boryeong

HIS Youth is a youth space medicine competition co-hosted by Boryung and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity starting in 2024. This year, around 1,700 participants—including elementary, middle, and high school students and their teachers from across the nation—took part. Under the theme of "Solving Humanity’s Health Issues on the Moon," participants presented creative ideas in the form of artworks and research projects. At the final, Dr. Parthie Karouia from NASA’s Space Biology Portfolio delivered a lecture on space life sciences.

This year’s award-winning works will be sent to the Moon for the first time in Korea. Through the IM-3 mission of the U.S. space company Intuitive Machines, which is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, they will be delivered to the lunar surface in the form of digital storage media. The lunar space environment monitor "LUSEM," developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, will also be onboard.

Winners in the middle and high school division will be offered an opportunity to visit major U.S. space agencies and companies, including NASA and Intuitive Machines, this coming October. During the trip, students will experience space medicine research sites firsthand and participate in a ceremony attaching the lunar time capsule storage device to the lunar lander.

Kim Jeongkyun, CEO of Boryung, said, "I hope the students’ creative ideas will lead to the advancement of future space life sciences," and added, "We will continue to support the cultivation of future space experts."

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