Alex Layendecker
@AlexLayendecker
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Founder & Director @ASRI4SPACE, Researcher, Pilot, Speaker
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Joined September 2016
🚨 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: https://t.co/6s4E2uJcmj 🐭 #SaveTheSpaceMice #GivingTuesday 🚀
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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: https://t.co/6s4E2uIEwL 🐭✨
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✨ 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: https://t.co/6s4E2uJcmj 🚀 #SaveTheSpaceMice
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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: https://t.co/6s4E2uIEwL 🚀🧬
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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: https://t.co/6s4E2uIEwL 🚀
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I want to make the world a little safer before I become a mom. And mind your business.
@SaraWahedi And it says no children. She wont have any because she will have a superiority complex.
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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: https://t.co/oqYOcjMIzO 🚀
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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
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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
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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? https://t.co/kzt2Oz1Q73
economist.com
Doing it dolphin style
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Share and repost even if you're not American! I wanna hear EVERYONE 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Let your kids dream big dreams. Teach them to work really, really, really hard. They'll learn that not even the sky is the limit, and that where they end up...will surpass even their wildest expectations. Trust me on this one. 👨🏽🚀🚀✨️
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Why study human reproduction in space? 🌌 Humanity’s long-term survival beyond Earth depends on solving these key challenges: 🚀 Microgravity impacts on human health 🚀 Space radiation risks 🚀 Psychological and behavioral factors #SpaceScience #ASRIMission
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Remember those movies growing up where you saw an array of women space explorers leading the way? This is it. It's here in 2025. And no matter who's trying to cover it up, tear it down, hide it away...it's already here. And it's not going away. 🌠🚀👩🏽🚀
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🌟 ASRI Spotlight: Karsen Kitchen! 🚀 We're proud to celebrate Karsen Kitchen as she’s honored at the United Nations for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🎉 Her dedication to science and space is truly inspiring.
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