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Don’t Fall for the Impossible Promise of DNA Ancestry Kits – Pajiba

Posted: June 24, 2020 at 6:04 am

As a Black woman descended from enslaved people, I often see ads for DNA ancestry kits that promise they will connect me to my roots, and I feel sorely tempted. Where in Africa were my ancestors stolen from? What languages did they speak, what beliefs did they hold? Could I somehow recover even the tiniest little piece of those identities stolen so long ago?

It is not a yearning exclusive to the Black community by any means, considering the various populations across the globe that have been forced from their ancestral lands and/or had their heritage and culture forcibly suppressed throughout the ages, but it is particularly common to the Black community. While I dont have hard statistics, from personal experience and anecdotal evidence I do feel that at-home DNA kits have been targeting Black consumers on the ancestry front more and more, realizing the particular allure their claims have for the many descendants of enslaved ancestors stolen from their homelands and purposefully stripped of their identitiestheir beliefs, their families, even their names. Ive started hearing more friends and family talking about using at-home DNA kits; I see more and more Black actors in DNA kit advertisements; at a Juneteenth celebration I attended one speaker openly encouraged the practice, enthusiastically sharing her own results.

I understand the yearning. I feel it myself and I know both sides of the coinI know exactly the sense of place and heritage Im missing on my fathers side because I have it on my mothers. While my fathers ancestry is full of questions and a surname that once belonged to a white man who owned my forebears, my mother is Irish, born and raised in a small town on the same land her family has farmed for generations. I spent most of my childhood summers there, exploring the dilapidated farmhouse that started off as a one-room stone cottage predating the Irish Potato Famine, hearing about how (for reasons I have never uncovered) my ancestors fared better when the blight came than several other nearby tenant farmers, who, so the story goes, would rummage through our garbage heap in search of turnip peels.

There is a sense of belonging and legacy in knowing a place like that, in being able to go to exactly where your ancestors lived and died, to sit in the shade of a tree you know a forebear planted. It is a privilege so widespread in some communities they have little notion of its specialness, or how many people have had that privilege stolen from them, sometimes several times over.

The prospect of being able to reclaim some of that privilege through genetic ancestry testing is hugely alluring. Unfortunately, it is also too good to be true, a promise that cannot really be kept, a stack of half-truths and statistical guesswork presented under a false veneer of certainty.

Consumer genetics companies sell us all a narrativea narrative of ourselves, of science certified self-discovery. Its a very tempting narrative, and theres now a multi-billion dollar industry that indicates they have gotten very good at selling it.

Most of these companies really sell three different thingsancestry, health information, and genealogy (i.e. connecting family trees)and sell them as if all three are equally accurate and scientifically backed. This is absolutely false. If connecting relatives and flagging genetic alleles of potential medical concern is like going outside and seeing what the weather is like, attempting to trace ones ethnicity and ancestral heritage via genomics is a lot more like looking at the tail end of a 30-day forecast. Theres a scientific basis to the projection at some level, but also significant room for error and, in the case of ancestry testing, lots of suppositions at play that can never be fully verified.

Theres been some reportage in the past few years regarding how DNA kit consumers have actually seen their ancestry results shift enormously as companies revamp their predictive models, but not nearly enough discussion of what that means, and exactly what it says about the half-truths and misconceptions on which this hugely profitable sector of the genomics industry is based.

Sure, companies lie through their teeth in advertising all the time, but theres something particularly disgraceful and infuriating about building an entire business around the impossible promise of revealing the truth, so lets break it down.

No matter how tempting the find your heritage message may be, or how adept DNA testing kit companies have gotten at pushing it, the thing that always stops me from succumbing to the siren song is a memory of a single PowerPoint slide from a Genetics course I took in college.

Theres a concept known as gene flow that refers to the transfer of genetic variation between different populations, and on that particular slide was a maxim so popular its often abbreviated: One migrant per generation is enough to conserve gene flow between populations, or OMPG. In other words, if there is any interbreeding at all between two groups, they are not going to diverge in any genetically distinguishable way. To apply this to the big picture, all human beings are 99.9% identical, and the variation in that remaining 0.1% really doesnt break down in a way that will tell you much about an individuals ancestral origins since our species, generally speaking, has long had a propensity for moving around and procreating with other human populations encountered along the way.

At this point, you might be wondering what ancestry DNA tests are actually testing, then, and how exactly they generate all those impressively specific percentages and spiffy graphs they give you in your results. The answer to that involves a whole lot of statistical calculations and banking on frequencies.

Heres a quick, hugely simplified run-down: there are regions within the human genome known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs (snips). These are basically hotspots for genetic variation, places where its particularly common for random mutation to lead to one nucleotide being swapped out for anothera C to a T, for examplein a way that usually has no impact on an individuals health or development but is from there passed down through the generations (unless, of course, another mutation occurs somewhere down the line). SNPs are, in other words, silent mutations, but they are the lifeblood of ancestry testing because having a lot of SNPs in common suggests shared ancestry. The more SNPs in common, the more recently individuals likely shared a common ancestor. As for what a lot means in this context, of the 3.2 billion nucleotide base pairs in a human genome, some DNA ancestry tests analyze half a million or more SNPs.

As described earlier, there arent specific Somalian or Nigerian or Irish or Italian genes to look for in the DNA itself. What these companies do is take known reference populations to identify SNPs and patterns of SNPs that are particularly prevalent within particular ethnic groups and then analyze a customers DNA for the presence of these.

So, where do these known reference genomes come from and how can we all be so sure these people accurately know their ancestry dating back hundreds of years when the rest of us are being marketed kits to figure that out? The answer is we dont know, and these companies are incredibly tight-lipped about the whole thing.

I tried clicking around the 23andMe website for a while and eventually came to a very long, graph-filled page about the companys state-of-the-art geographic ancestry analysis which quickly boasts about the 14,000 people with known ancestry providing the basis for their analysis. The page then spends several thousand words giving an introductory genomics lesson that manages to not address how their analysis actually works at all, or why anyone should actually put any stock in the results it spits out. When the foundational reference data-set is brought up again, it is described as including genotypes from 14,437 people who were chosen to reflect populations that existed before transcontinental travel and migration were common (at least 500 years ago), which really, if anything, just begs more questions instead of providing any meaningful answers.

On the one hand, if you really believe in the unparalleled integrity of large corporations, you could make the case that such obfuscation is necessary to protect valuable trade secrets and there is nothing more to it than that. On the other, there is room to suspect between the handwaving and the support pages with fine print disclaimers like predicting inheritance is not an exact science that the secrecy might also have something to do with not wanting potential customers to cotton on to the fact that theyre selling a service that is one part science and two parts snake oil. Regardless, theres a distinct irony to having a whole industry built on the assumed accuracy of a known ancestry reference pool that most frequently promotes its product with ads about people thinking they know their heritage and discovering they were wrong.

Genetic testing isnt fundamentally evil or bad. There is a long list of privacy and ethical concerns surrounding the practice that have worryingly not yet been addressed in any meaningful way, but there are a number of legitimate applications for genetic testing that have the potential to do a lot of good if regulated appropriately. I, myself, have taken a particular kind of genetic test before and found it helpful. I deal with depression, and when trying to find a medication that was a good fit, my psychiatrist at the time suggested I do pharmacogenomics testing, or drug-gene testing, which specifically looks at your genes for variations known to be correlated with limited efficacy or experiencing side effects from a range of medications. My results indicated that the mechanism of action at work in many common antidepressants would be likely ineffective in my case, so the psychiatrist ended up prescribing a relatively new drug that worked differently. It ended up being a good fit for me. Odds are she would have suggested something else if I hadnt done the testing, and I ultimately think the test was worth it.

Genetic testing is a powerful tool, and only growing more so as our understanding of genetics evolves and methods become more and more sophisticated. But genetic testing is not all-powerful. There are certain things it cannot really tell us, not because we need bigger data sets or are still waiting on crucial breakthroughs, but because the shoe just doesnt fit, and it never really will.

Heres the thing about race, ethnicity, and culture: its not genetic. Yes, when you look at things like skin color and hair texture, there are connections, but its a Venn diagram with limited overlap. Thats not to say that race, ethnicity, and culture are somehow not real or not important. They are all very real and incredibly important. They just are not ultimately geneticalthough sometimes genetic-adjacent, if you will.

Were clear upfront that DNA is not identity. DNA is not culture, Robin Smith, the head of 23andMes Ancestry Division told STAT News for an article published last year, although clearly not the companys marketing department. Like other DNA ancestry kit companies, it rakes in millions of new customers every year with the allure of discover who you really are, not well send you a guess of who we think you might be based off of contested hypotheses and dodgy methodologies, then sell your genetic data to third parties for hundreds of millions of dollars because somehow people might not be as interested in forking over $100 or so when presented with the second option.

There are a lot of stories out theresome heartwarming, others heartbreakingabout DNA kit results completely reshaping a persons sense of self and family history. Now, if the results tell you that youre positive for a BRCA1 mutation or you have a long-lost cousin or your uncle is actually your dadthats all relatively straightforward, cut-and-dry genomics, and unless a lab technician processed your tube of spit wrong somehow, the findings are almost certainly accurate. But ancestry is a different matter. If you want to do a DNA ancestry kit as a bit of a lark or out of idle curiosity, thats one thing, but know that whatever results come back are just guesses, and can never be anything more.

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Century Therapeutics Canada will develop induced pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-derived allogeneic immune cell therapies against glioblastoma (GBM)

PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA I June 23, 2020 ICentury Therapeutics today announced its acquisition of Empirica Therapeutics to leverage its iPSC-derived allogeneic cell therapies against glioblastoma (GBM).

We are pleased to welcome the Empirica team to the Century family. Their deep expertise and unique capabilities will allow us to accelerate efforts to develop iPSC derived immune effector cell products designed to treat and potentially cure brain cancer, said Lalo Flores, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of Century Therapeutics. GBM is a particularly aggressive, often treatment-resistant form of adult brain cancer with an average survival time of under two years. Together, we are in a stronger position to develop potentially curative cell therapies for this devastating disease.

Empirica Therapeutics was founded by Dr. Sheila Singh, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry and chief pediatric neurosurgeon at McMaster Childrens Hospital, and Dr. Jason Moffat, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto and an expert in functional genomics and gene-editing platforms. The companys science is based on a powerful integrative multi-omics platform, combined with its unique patient-derived, therapy-adapted models of recurrent GBM, that has led to the discovery and validation of novel brain tumor targets. Empiricas cutting edge preclinical models of recurrent GBM, have demonstrated the potential of CAR-T cell therapy in GBM, as published in a May 2020 Cell Stem Cell paper.

Our team is excited to become part of Century Therapeutics, whose iPSC-derived allogeneic cell therapies show immense potential for treating solid as well as hematologic malignancies, said Dr. Singh. Dr. Singh served as Empiricas CEO after co-founding the company with Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Moffat. We look forward to combining our unique patient-based cancer models with Centurys platform to create promising treatments for the patients who need them most, Singh said.

Janelle Anderson, PhD, Chief Strategy Officer at Century Therapeutics, shepherded the deal forming the subsidiary, which will be known as Century Therapeutics Canada and based in Hamilton, Ontario. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

About Century Therapeutics

Century Therapeutics is harnessing the power of stem cells to develop curative cell therapy products for cancer that overcome the limitations of first-generation cell therapies. Our genetically engineered, universal iPSC-derived immune effector cell products (iNK, iT) are designed to specifically target hematologic and solid tumor cancers. Our commitment to developing off-the-shelf cell therapies will expand patient access and provides an unparalleled opportunity to advance the course of cancer care. Century was launched in 2019 by founding investor Versant Ventures in partnership with Fujifilm and Leaps by Bayer. For more information, please visit http://www.centurytx.com.

About Glioblastoma (GBM)

Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most common types of primary brain tumor in adults and is almost uniformly lethal, with less than 5% of patients living beyond five years. GBM has an incidence rate of 3 per 100,000 people annually in the United States of America. The standard of care for GBM consists of tumor resection following by chemotherapy and radiation. Despite aggressive multimodal treatment, almost all patients experience relapse 7-9 months post-diagnosis and median survival has not extended beyond 16-20 months over the past decade. Recent studies suggest that the primary GBM tumor evolves significantly during the course of therapy and presents itself as a much more aggressive tumor at the time of recurrence. The treatment-resistant nature of GBM to standard therapies provides compelling motivation for developing novel treatment approaches.

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ArcherDX drops IPO plans in favor of a $1.4B takeover by Invitae – FierceBiotech

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Personalized cancer test developer ArcherDX is walking away from plans to take itself public and into the arms of genetic testing company Invitae.

Earlier this month, ArcherDX announced it was filing for a $100 million Nasdaq IPObut instead it will reap a deal worth $1.4 billion, counting upfront cash, Invitae shares and future milestone payments. The two companies plan to integrate their genomics, tumor profiling and liquid biopsy technologies through one, overarching service.

"From the beginning, Invitae's goal has been to aggregate the world's genetic tests into a single platform in service of our mission to bring comprehensive genetic information into mainstream medicine. Today, we take another major step forward in that effort, Invitae co-founder and CEO Sean George said in a statement.

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The transaction begins with $325 million in cash plus 30 million shares of Invitae common stock; an additional 27 million shares are linked to milestones. The move has been approved by the boards of both companies and is expected to close within several months, the companies said.

To help carry the acquisition, Invitae has set up a strategic financing with over $400 million in commitments from investors, led by Perceptive Advisors. Invitae has agreed to sell $275 million of stock in a private placement at $16.85 a share, supported by Casdin Capital, Deerfield Management, Driehaus Capital Management, Farallon, PBM Capital, Redmile Group, Rock Springs Capital, Soleus Capital and an unnamed institutional investor.

RELATED: ArcherDX expands co-marketing, in vitro diagnostics partnerships with Illumina

Invitae has also secured a credit facility for up to $200 million with Perceptive Credit Opportunities Funds. Following the deals announcement, Invitaes stock rose nearly 50% from about $18 to over $26 a share.

We are thrilled to unite with Invitae to form the leading hub for precision oncology, diagnostics, therapy optimization and monitoring, with an opportunity to accelerate both patient care and shareholder value," said ArcherDXs co-founder and CEO Jason Myers.

ArcherDX currently counts over 325 unique products in its research services catalog and is developing in vitro cancer diagnostics with FDA submissions slated for later this year. The companys Stratafide DX and Personalized Cancer Monitoring efforts have both received breakthrough device designations from the agency.

ArcherDX also recently launched separate collaborations with AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb to apply its minimal residual disease assays to the drugmakers clinical cancer research.

RELATED: Invitae to buy DNA-counseling chatbot developer Clear Genetics for $50M

Together, the two companies aim to offer research and clinical trial support to biopharma companies as well as biomarker identification and companion diagnostic development while providing test reports, consultations and genetic counseling through Invitaes central laboratory.

"Integrating all aspects of cancer genetics can transform care for patients and the flexibility that comes from both centralized and decentralized capabilities will uniquely position Invitae to meet the needs of customers worldwide," said George. "By joining together, we will unite world-class capabilities in the hands of a talented team with complementary expertise and strong brands in service of a shared goal to improve healthcare for patients."

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Novak Djokovic tests positive for COVID-19, joins list of infected tennis players who appeared in Adria Tour – DNA India

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Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has been tested positive for coronavirus, joining a slew of other infected players who took part in his Adria Tour exhibition tournament in the Balkans.

"Novak Djokovic tested positive for a virus COVID-19," read a statement from his staff. "He is not showing any symptoms," it added.

Djokovic's wife Jelena also tested positive while the results of their children are negative, the statement read.Everything we did in the past month we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions, the statement reads.

I am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection.

The other tennis stars who have been tested positive are Grigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric, and Viktor Troicki

The tournament, which also had top names such as Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev, was held in Belgrade, and Zadar and the players were also pictured playing basketball and dancing together without following social distancing protocols, Reuters reported.

As for Zverev, the German tennis star on Monday confirmed that he and his team have tested negative for coronavirus.

"I have just received the news that my team and I have tested negative for COVID-19. I deeply apologize to anyone that I have potentially put at risk by playing this tour. I will proceed to follow the self-isolating guidelines advised by our doctors. As an added precaution, my team and I will continue with regular testing. I wish everyone who has tested positive a speedy recovery. Stay safe," Zverev wrote on Twitter.

The ATP and WTA Tours, which were suspended in March due to the pandemic, are set to resume in August with the US Open and French Open beginning on August 31 and September 27, respectively.

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Research on DNA and Gene Chips Market (impact of COVID-19) with Top Players: Bio MrieuxSA, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Savyon Diagnostics, Agilent…

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The report claims to split the regional scope of the DNA and Gene Chips market into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America & Middle East and Africa. Which among these regions has been touted to amass the largest market share over the anticipated duration

How do the sales figures look at present how does the sales scenario look for the future?

Considering the present scenario, how much revenue will each region attain by the end of the forecast period?

How much is the market share that each of these regions has accumulated presently

How much is the growth rate that each topography will depict over the predicted timeline

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It helps in making informed business decisions by having complete insights of market and by making in-depth analysis of market segments

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Chapter 2: Global Economic Impact on Industry

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Chapter 6: Global Production, Revenue (Value), Price Trend by Type

Chapter 7: Global Market Analysis by Application

Chapter 8: Manufacturing Cost Analysis

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Making the future of space exploration a more inclusive one – Arizona State University

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June 22, 2020

When youre an astronaut, whom do you represent? Do you represent the citizens of the country whose flag is emblazoned on your suit? Or do you represent a larger group of people, all those billions of humans whose lives light up the planet below you?

That was Juan Villoros first question for Cady Coleman, ASUs Global Explorer in Residence and a former NASA astronaut, in Wednesdays virtual Convergence Lab event. ASUs Convergence Lab, a series of events usually held in person in Mexico City, brings together communities across borders to learn from each other with the ultimate goal of building a better, shared North American future.

Villoro, a renowned Mexican journalist, novelist and playwright, spoke with Coleman about her experiences in space, and together the two discussed ways to make the future of space exploration a more inclusive one.

I have my U.S. patch on my sleeve, Coleman said, pointing to the American flag on her uniform. It's hard to say this without sounding like you don't appreciate your home, or the fact that we all come from somewhere. But looking back at the Earth, we're all from the same place were all from there.

Though Mexico doesnt have a national space program equivalent to NASA (the Mexican Space Agency is focused principally on research and education and doesnt send humans to space), the country has a long history of looking toward the stars, Villoro said from Mayan astronomers to present-day visionaries like Alfonso Cuarn, director of the film Gravity, which Coleman consulted on.

Cady Coleman, ASU's Global Explorer in Residence and former NASA astronaut, and Juan Villoro, award-winning writer and journalist, discuss international collaboration and our shared future in space in a virtual Convergence Lab event June 17.Screenshot courtesy of Mia Armstrong

When Cuarn won an Oscar for Gravity,many people thought, 'Well, how come a Mexican is so deeply interested in outer space and is so accurate in his redemption of what's going on out there?' Villoro said.

The answer, he said, is because this adventure has been important for the whole human race.

Villoro was 12 when Apollo 11 reached the moon, he remembered, and for my generation that changed the whole idea of the universe.

This shared idea of the universe is a constantly shifting one, Coleman said, especially as we push existing barriers and discover new limits to our knowledge of space, and also incorporate new perspectives into our exploration of it.

What I discovered when I got to go to space was I used to think that we're here on Earth, and then space is somewhere else, and some people go, she said. But actually, Earth and the place that we call home is just bigger than we thought, and just not enough people have been to these edges yet.

Through its School of Earth and Space Exploration and Interplanetary Initiative, ASU is trying to bring more people toward those edges. The ASU-led NASA Psyche Mission, set to launch in summer 2022, for example, offers free online classes that allow people from around the world to participate in the mission.

Villoro and Coleman discussed private-sector participation in space exploration: I would go with whatever vehicle is leaving I really love these additional collaborations, Coleman said; human rights in space: Its a totally new turf, Villoro said, which needs to be solved by the whole community of the Earth; and experiments on the International Space Station: Were learning things in space that really we cant learn down here, Coleman said.

One audience member, a psychology student from Mexico, asked Coleman for her advice to endure the social and physical isolation many of us have found ourselves in over the last several months. Colemans response? Focus on the mission.

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Right now, there are many different important individual and societal missions, Coleman said. One is trying to keep ourselves, our families and our communities safe in the face of a global pandemic. Another is educating ourselves about our roles in systems that perpetuate racial inequality and injustice, and working to change that.

When asked by audience members whether they would jump on the opportunity to go to space again for an important mission, or accept a one-way ticket to Mars, Coleman and Villoro had different answers.

Yes and yes, Coleman said immediately.

I will write about going to Mars, and I will write about somebody who has a single ticket to Mars, but I will never go there, Villoro said, laughing.

The truth is, Villoro, the storyteller, and Coleman, the astronaut, both have equally important roles to fill. Art and storytelling, Coleman said, are crucial to building our future in space.

When people see themselves in a story, in problem solving, then they think, Oh, maybe this could be me, she said.

So whether youre writing a book or directing a commercial or illustrating a cartoon, Coleman urged, Please, please, please include other people that really don't look or feel like you, because they're part of the equation. And by them seeing themselves in your story, it makes all the difference.

In space, said Coleman, the thing that links everyone to each other, despite different government positions or priorities, is the passion for exploration. That passion is what spurred collaboration on the International Space Station, she remembered.

It's always the people between each other that build those bridges, Coleman said.

Those are bridges we can build from anywhere in the universe.

Watch the full event.

Written by Mia Armstrong.

Top image:Cady Coleman, ASU's Global Explorer in Residence and former NASA astronaut, shares a photo from the International Space Station and talks about the time she spent there during a binational Convergence Lab event June 17. Through two Space Shuttle missions and an almost six-month stint on the ISS, Coleman has logged a cumulative180 days in space. Images courtesy of Cady Coleman and Mia Armstrong.

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Redwire Acquires Made In Space, the Leader in On-orbit Space Manufacturing Technologies – PRNewswire

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Redwire, a new leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has acquired Made In Space, Inc. ("MIS"), an innovative provider of industry-leading on-orbit space manufacturing technologies. The acquisition also includes Made In Space Europe, based in Luxembourg and a sister company to the U.S. organization, which provides space-capable robotic systems to the global space industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 2010, MIS was the first company to perform additive manufacturing in space and specializes in on-orbit manufacturing and assembly, zero gravity materials development, and human space exploration manufacturing solutions. Over the last 10 years, MIS has teamed with NASA on several space manufacturing projects including the Archinaut program, an in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly capability that builds large scale space assets on-orbit. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, MIS has additional offices in California, Alabama, and Ohio.

The acquisition demonstrates Redwire's continued investment in differentiated space technology that enables next generation space infrastructure and exploration solutions. MIS products and technologies will enhance Redwire's existing technology portfolio which includes space sensors and payloads, flight hardware, and exploration spacecraft.

AE Industrial Partners, LP ("AEI"), a private equity firm specializing in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services, Power Generation, and Specialty Industrial markets, launched Redwire in June 2020 through the combination of portfolio companies Adcole Space and Deep Space Systems. Both companies were acquired by AEI earlier this year.

"To truly realize the full potential for space exploration, innovation must change the economics," said Peter Cannito, CEO of Redwire. "Made In Space has been driving these innovations and is now positioned to revolutionize the industry."

"Joining Redwire is an exciting opportunity to be part of a new company taking an innovative approach to address the needs of today's space industry," said Andrew Rush, President and CEO of MIS. "Redwire provides us with the scale and space heritage we need to take our technology to the next level."

"We share Redwire's vision to push the boundaries of technological innovation in space to enable greater opportunities for positive economic impact on Earth and advance exploration," said Michael Snyder, MIS Chief Engineer. "With strong support from Redwire and AEI, we look forward to accelerating our efforts and delivering new capabilities to the market."

"Combining the game-changing innovations of Made In Space with the unmatched flight heritage of Adcole Space and Deep Space Systems creates a truly unique space platform," said Kirk Konert, Partner at AEI. "Additionally, gaining a European presence through Made In Space Europe will allow us to better serve the global space community. We look forward to working with Andrew, Mike and the MIS team."

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP served as the financial advisor and Kirkland & Ellis LLP served as the legal advisor to Redwire. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP was the legal advisor to MIS.

About Redwire

Redwire is a new leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy. With decades of flight heritage combined with the agile and innovative culture of a commercial space platform, Redwire is uniquely positioned to assist its customers in solving the complex challenges of future space missions. For more information, please visit http://www.redwire.space.

About Made In Space, Inc. ("MIS")

MIS is the industry leader for space manufacturing technologies, delivering next-generation capabilities on-orbit to support exploration objectives and national security priorities. As the first commercial company to additively manufacture in space, MIS is advancing the commercial space economy through its expansive technology portfolio. With a focus on industrializing the space environment, MIS specializes in on-orbit manufacturing, space-enabled materials development and exploration manufacturing technology. With offices in Florida, California, Alabama, and Ohio in the United States and Luxembourg, Europe, MIS is empowering a highly talented workforce to realize the Company vision of sustainably building off-Earth manufacturing capabilities to enable the future of space exploration. For more information, visitwww.madeinspace.us.

About AE Industrial Partners

AE Industrial Partners is a private equity firm specializing in Aerospace, Defense & Government Services, Power Generation, and Specialty Industrial markets. AE Industrial Partners invests in market-leading companies that can benefit from its deep industry knowledge, operating experience, and relationships throughout its target markets. Learn more at http://www.aeroequity.com.

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For Redwire/AE Industrial Partners:Lambert & Co.Jennifer Hurson(845) 507-0571[emailprotected]orKristin Celauro(732) 433-5200[emailprotected]

For Made in Space:Austin Jordan321-536-8632[emailprotected]

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Don’t expect NASA’s 1st Artemis astronauts to drive on the moon in a fancy lunar car – Space.com

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Last year, NASA set itself an ambitious goal: Send astronauts to walk on the moon in 2024. Now, the agency is busy planning what astronauts will do during those excursions.

NASA hasn't landed humans on another world in nearly 50 years, not since 1972's Apollo 17 mission to the moon. But that's the agency's goal for its Artemis program. So, the agency is combining that Apollo experience with what it has learned during decades of living and working on the International Space Station, and sprinkling in some challenges it wants to tackle in preparation for the next major exploration milestone, a human mission to Mars.

Science isn't the limiting factor, of course: Scientists have been itching to get back to the moon's surface for ages. But discussions surrounding the Artemis program have tended to focus on the challenges that need to be tackled before the first crewed landing in 2024 or on the agency's long-term vision for the moon, rather than on the practical details of taking advantage of early moonwalk opportunities.

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In a series of presentations made last month, NASA personnel described some of the details of the agency's vision for a new era of moonwalks. In particular, representatives offered a sense of how extravehicular activities, or EVAs, during the first landed mission, Artemis 3 in 2024, could unfold.

First, the basics: During the mission, two astronauts will spend up to about 6.5 days on the lunar surface, Lindsay Aitchison, a spacesuit engineer at NASA, said during the Lunar Surface Science Virtual Workshop held on May 28.

That's nearly twice the duration of the longest astronaut stays during the Apollo missions. During that stay, the astronauts will conduct about four extravehicular activities, each of which could last about six hours, Aitchison said, matching the duration of typical excursions outside the International Space Station.

On the first crewed landing mission, astronauts will have to use their own two feet to get around the lunar surface. NASA isn't expecting to have a large rover on the surface and ready to assist exploration until the second crewed landing at the earliest. "We will be limited to just the crew and how far they can walk on their own two feet," Aitchison said. "That's still a fairly wide distance, but it is somewhat limited until we get to the further phases of exploration."

Given that constraint, Aitchison said, NASA has calculated that during each EVA, the crew should be able to cover about 10 miles (16 kilometers) round-trip. (For comparison, during their single milestone lunar excursion on Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin covered about 3,300 feet, or 1 km, in 2.5 hours.)

The astronauts' explorations will also be limited in terms of where their suits can keep them safe. The Apollo missions all landed in the equatorial region of the moon, but the Artemis missions will go someplace entirely new, the south pole region, where extremely cold temperatures may pose problems for spacesuits.

That's a calculated decision on NASA's part. The south pole is tantalizing because scientists have confirmed that water ice lurks frozen below the moon's surface in deep southern craters that never see direct sunlight. Would-be explorers hope that such ice could be mined and processed into drinking water or rocket fuel, facilitating more ambitious missions.

But the same conditions that would foster such ice would make direct exploration by astronauts difficult. The spacesuits on the first landed mission won't be able to withstand such cold temperatures, Jake Bleacher, a geologist and chief exploration scientist at NASA, confirmed during the same meeting. Even on subsequent missions, astronauts may still need to stay in warmer, sunlit areas and leave direct work in the permanently shadowed regions to robotic assistants.

The first Artemis spacesuit will be a model called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU, which is based on the EMU suits astronauts currently use during spacewalks on the International Space Station while incorporating some moon-specific lessons from the Apollo program.

"This is where we're going to test out technologies, utilize lessons learned from EMU and obviously Apollo, in order to get to 2024," Natalie Mary, an EVA systems engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, said during a Committee on Space Research meeting held virtually on May 20 focusing on human missions to Mars. "We do have some things that we are holding off [on] for sustained lunar [exploration]."

In particular, throughout the xEMU design process, spacesuit engineers have focused on fit and mobility in order to facilitate exploration. Unlike Apollo and space station suits, the xEMU suits emphasize lower-body movement, meant to ensure that astronauts can walk around the surface with relative ease.

However, the xEMU will be an evolving technology, and NASA already plans to make certain changes to support longer lunar stays for later Artemis missions, including beefing up the suit's protection against vicious moon dust. Later suits could also be programmed to verify their condition, rather than requiring precious astronaut time for a detailed inspection to ensure safety.

One of the components of the xEMU suits that NASA is most carefully analyzing is the gloves, Tamra George, a tools specialist at Johnson Space Center, said during the Lunar Surface Science Virtual Workshop.

"One of the biggest things that limits our designs of EVA instruments and tools is the gloved hand," George said.

Suit gloves must navigate a tricky balance, George said, since they need to be flexible to facilitate astronaut activities but also tough enough to keep astronauts isolated from the harsh lunar environment. And between the bulk of the gloves themselves and the pressure of the suit, space handiwork can be both difficult and draining.

And, of course, the lack of transportation on the lunar surface affects the kinds of instruments astronauts can bring on the moonwalks just as it limits the ground they can cover. Because astronauts on the Artemis 3 mission will need to carry their toolkits themselves, heavy or bulky equipment won't be an option until later missions.

Those constraints, plus moonwalk experience during the Apollo era, have led to NASA settling on an initial set of eight basic science instruments for astronauts to bring on these excursions, Adam Naids, a hardware development engineer at Johnson Space Center, said at the same meeting. Those tools include geology staples like a hammer, rake, scoop and tongs.

Of course, the Artemis 3 mission is still more than four years away, so NASA is still early in the planning process of every aspect of its spacewalks.

"The idea here was just to get us started on developing some of the tools that had a high probability of flying based on what was done in Apollo," Naids said. "This isn't meant to be an all-inclusive list. There's going to be dozens and dozens of other tools and equipment that's going to be made, but it got us started."

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There are still many of you reading this who are old enough to remember 1968, perhaps one of the most important years in the nations history. Its striking resemblance to this year is hard to ignore the protests, the riots, the war and space exploration its all there.

Could it be that 2020 is an incarnation of that seminal year? There may be no way to know just yet because 2020 is only about halfway finished. A long view of 1968 can offer this lesson perspective can shape attitude because when viewed from a distance, the events of 1968 provided combustion for great change that helped the nation tremendously, and that perspective came from events on Earth and in space.

Nineteen sixty-eight was an election year, the same as this year. Sen. Robert Kennedy was on his way to winning the Democratic Presidential nomination. He was killed in June. Chicago was the site of the Democratic National Convention, scheduled for August of that same year. Police and war protesters fought each other outside the convention.

It was a violent time. Two months later came the decision to increase the number of troops in Vietnam, to more than half a million. Todays war in Afghanistan currently involves 14,000 troops, down more than 100,000 in 2012, but war was a feature of American life during both those years.

Then theres the chaos that comes with a pandemic. The coronavirus has killed more than 120,000 Americans. The H3N2 virus in 1968 killed 100,000 Americans.

The year came to a close while Apollo 8 astronauts were soaring through space to become the first men to orbit the moon. Anyone who was alive with access to a television set had the opportunity to witness spectacular images, impossible for human eyes to see prior to the mission. One of those images was the sight of the Earth, rising from the moons horizon. It was Christmas time and on Christmas Eve each of the astronauts read a passage from the book of Genesis, then-Commander Frank Borman ended the transmission with these words, And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a merry Christmas and God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth.

The world looks differently from space than from where the rest of us stand. Astronauts see a blue pearl, dotted with white clouds and continents, surrounded by water. Life at ground level is full of more grit. Whats the difference? Perspective.

The S&P 500 index first crossed the 100-point barrier in June 1968 despite all that was happening, and the same index has recovered from much of the decline that happened at the outbreak of coronavirus. When viewed as daily, weekly or even monthly trends, the recent stock market volatility can be jarring, even frightening. When viewed from a longer lens, it can be less so, because over time, markets tend to reward investors.

This not meant to be a primer on investing, but rather a note about perspective and context.

Trends typically do not move in a straight line, at least not in the realm of economics and maybe so too in greater society. There are fits and starts, ups and downs, ebb and flow, and sometimes severe gyration. The optimistic among us will say that Americans will find ways to overcome new diseases, improve race relations and build roads that lead to economic fairness. But even the most optimistic might say that there will be missteps and setbacks along the way. Theres no getting around that, but we humans can achieve great things with enough determination from everyone here, on the good Earth.

Harlan is a financial planner who lives in Little Italy.

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