Starr Schroeder graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1999. Her nursing experience includes critical care, emergency nursing, and nursing management. She has experience in nursing research as a Research Assistant on the RESTORE Pediatric Sedation Study, and nursing education as the Chair for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Clinical Education Committee as well as benchmarking, informing and developing PICU bedside nursing protocol and the bedside clinical reference manual for Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her outreach passions include creating accessibility and representation for underserved youth populations. She has several projects in the works to provide opportunities and mentorship to students interested in STEAM who otherwise would not have the opportunity to follow their dreams. Starr is a member of the Association of Spaceflight Professionals where she is co-lead for research involving medical guidelines in commercial space flight participants. Her team presented “Medical Guidelines for Commercial Space Flight: A Review” at the International Astronautical Congress in October 2019. She was the presenting speaker for the ASP September 2020 Space 101 lecture series with her presentation “The Ins and Outs of Space Nutrition”. Currently she is a member of the Aerospace Medical Association, National Space Society, Wilderness Medical Society, and the Moon Village Association. She is a Master’s candidate in the Human Factors in Aerospace program at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Her publications include chapters on Spaceflight Nutritional Support, Future Trends in Spacesuits, as well as The Lunar Environment in the Handbook of Life Support Systems for Spacecraft and Extraterrestrial Habitats (in review) along with a position paper on telemedicine during a pandemic in collaboration with the REPROGRAM International Consortium. Her immediate goal is to obtain her SCUBA certification to include certification in rescue diving. Starr has become an active participant in the space medicine community and is involved in multiple collaborations including research related to ECG changes during parabolic flight and spacesuit life support systems testing with Final Frontier Design in microgravity. She is working to achieve her dream of incorporating her experience in medicine into her love for space by pursuing and participating in ground breaking efforts to systematically pioneer, define, and develop the framework and role of nursing in current and future space exploration including the commercial space industry while advocating for the continued development of space medicine.