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MISSION: All Systems GO!

NASA’s ‘MISSION: All Systems GO!’ is a multimedia program of custom videos, space-themed imagery and tangibles specially developed to ease anxieties of young patients facing prolonged cancer treatment therapies and other intense medical protocols by likening their upcoming challenge to that of a NASA astronaut’s mission.

The Story Behind Our Mission

How It All Started

Inspiration for our program.

Young patients ages 5-17 can spend as much as an hour tightly strapped into state-of-the-art medical treatment machines (think MRIs) for as many as 42 consecutive days. Many patients claimed these hi-tech machines looked just like “spaceships”. This observation served as the inspiration for this project. NASA thanks the Seattle Fred Hutch Cancer Center and National Association for Proton Therapy staff whose dedicated assistance made this project a success. The videos, and accompanying products, are a new resource for treatment centers, and support President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden’s Cancer Moonshot. 

Learn more about NASA's Space Act Agreements about How It All Started
Illustration of patient receiving treatment.
NASA / Hannah Obremski

Mission Posters

Additional posters are available for download in the media toolkit.

Pillars of Creation

Pillars of Creation, in the Eagle Nebula more than 6,500 light-years from Earth as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

Michael Hopkins

A "selfie" of NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, on an EVA (extra-vehicular activity) outside the International Space Station (ISS).

Ingenuity Mission

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, as viewed by NASA's Mars Rover Perseverance, on the Red Planet in 2023.

Kjell Lindgren

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren with newly-arrived fresh citrus brought to the International Space Station (ISS) by an uncrewed cargo ship.

NASA’s “MISSION: All Systems GO!” Participant Terms and Conditions

NASA’s MISSION: All Systems GO! is a set of images, videos, certificates and related materials (the “Materials”) intended for use by healthcare providers to assist in reducing the anxieties of children and other patients facing difficult treatment protocols for cancer and other maladies by comparing their challenges with those of NASA astronauts about to embark on a mission to space.

To read the full Terms and Conditions, click here.

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