Humanitas, Astra, Ingenium

Building human-centered innovations for space and extreme environments.

A Nurse-Led Aerospace Company

Mission: Advancing human health and safety in extreme and terrestrial environments through innovative R&D in life-support, sensing, and decision-support systems. Designing and validating high-reliability solutions with a focus on aerospace nursing science and countermeasures to enhance performance across the spaceflight continuum.

Vision: Becoming the leading R&D partner for human-systems technologies in aerospace, clinical, and industrial domains, setting standards for cross-disciplinary research, systems integration, operational readiness, and circular economy principles to promote sustainable resource use and waste minimization.

Philosophy: Combining first-principles science, rigorous verification, and human-centered design to deliver reliable, safe, and reproducible solutions. Pioneering aerospace nursing and countermeasures ensures effective, usable, and clinically meaningful systems for mission-critical environments.

NAICS: 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

AUTHENTICATION NUMBER: 100008861507

Nurses must first establish a strong footing in the booming commercial space industry, where our capabilities are unmatched. We need to clearly demonstrate how our talents translate into innovative solutions by engineering ideas into reality and simulating futures once never imagined. Today we forge the path. Tomorrow we define the horizon.

Hi, I am Dr. J. P. Hernandez, founder and CEO of Stellar Life Support Technologies LLC in New York City.

I am an academic nurse educator, researcher, technology visionary and futurist, and entrepreneur in space health and simulation technologies. I bring interdisciplinary expertise in aerospace physiology, human systems integration, simulation, nursing, and translational space health research.

The image of me in the spacesuit represents the bold foresight of a nurse who dares to go beyond traditional nursing education.

As a Filipino-American, I am driven by the aspiration to fly in space and to demonstrate this expertise through interdisciplinary research on human caring and performance in outer space using novel technologies conceptualized from a nursing perspective. This includes specialized knowledge in human adaptation to microgravity, spaceflight stressors, and biological risk mitigation.

I am a NASA Twins Study contributor and recipient of the Aerospace Physiology Research Excellence Award from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (April 29, 2026).

I have served as Co-Author on a NASA L’SPACE funded proposal, Data Analyst and Simulation Specialist for a NASA L’SPACE project, and currently lead multiple spaceflight research proposals as PI/Co-PI, including a Philippine 3U biological CubeSat focused on radiation protection and life support using bryophytes and fungi.

Additional biographical details and professional profile are available at the Lifeboat Foundation and on LinkedIn.

Caring Innovation for Nursing in the Space Age

Exploring how nurses can lead the future of healthcare through compassion, technology, and innovation as human spaceflight enters the commercial era.

Joannes Paulus Tolentino Hernandez, DComm, MSAP(c), MAN, RN, CHSE

1 Helene Fuld College of Nursing (HFCN), New York, NY, United States

2 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, OH, United States

3 Advanced SpaceLife Research Institute (ASRI), Cape Canaveral, FL, United States

4 Philippine Space Biosciences Society Inc. (PSBIOS), Manila, Philippines

Building on nursing’s proven legacy of adapting to diverse care environments from hospitals to telehealth and military operations, the aerospace nursing workforce brings essential capabilities in health promotion, spaceflight physiological monitoring and adaptation (e.g., microgravity and radiation countermeasures), performance optimization, behavioral support, rehabilitation, telehealth coordination, and continuity of care. These strengths enable nurses to deliver compassionate, holistic support across the entire spaceflight journey, complementing flight surgeons’ focus on medical clearance and acute treatment while extending care into extreme environments.

This emerging field offers exciting roles such as Commercial Spaceflight Nurses, Space Health Coordinators, Human Performance Specialists, Aerospace Rehabilitation Nurses, and Space Health Educators. Through innovation, simulation, research, and interdisciplinary leadership, nurses are designing the health systems that enable humans to not only survive but thrive in space. The future of nursing is not leaving bedside care behind. It is extending our core mission of caring, advocacy, and innovation into the growing space economy.

Featured in the forthcoming textbook: Aerospace Health Systems and Space Operations Nursing by Dr. Joannes Paulus Tolentino Hernandez.

Inaugural Space Project Now Open for Funding

We are seeking visionary investors and partners to support our inaugural space project. This initiative advances innovative life support and radiation protection technologies for commercial spaceflight.

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