Wristwatch-like device enables assessment of health risks for astronauts on mission to the moon

Just hours before the Orion spacecraft streaked across the sky en route to the Moon on April 1, mechatronics engineer Rodrigo Trevisan Okamoto received the confirmation he had been waiting for since the announcement of the Artemis 2 mission in 2023. The NASA email indicated that the crew of the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in half a century would carry a device developed by Okamoto and his team from Condor Instruments, a startup based in São Paulo.