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08/12/2022 – 14:54
Colgate-Palmolive announced this Wednesday (7) an agreement with NASAthe US space agency, to explore innovative solutions to promote oral health, personal care and skin health for astronauts in space and people around the world.
The agreement between the company and the space agency was called the Space Act Agreement (SAA, or Space Act Agreement, in Portuguese) and provides for the testing of Colgate’s technologies – in the categories of oral health, skin health and personal care products can help to maintaining or improving the health and well-being of future low-orbit space travelers, either before, during, or after long-duration missions.
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Colgate will also use the International Space Station (ISS) as an experimental testing ground, enabling new discoveries and accelerating innovations that will promote health and wellness for everyone on Earth.
Consultation by an astronaut
Former astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman will work alongside Colgate as a consultant to help lead the research project and provide insight into the realities of space travel and life in microgravity. A polymer chemist in the Air Force, Coleman spent more than 180 days living and working in space on three missions between 1995 and 2011, when he conducted more than 100 different experiments.
The possibilities of a space laboratory
Colgate and NASA have worked together before. In 2021 they conducted the first private sector oral hygiene experiment on the ISS to study how plaque grows in microgravity with the aim of developing more effective oral hygiene solutions on Earth.
Earlier this year, the company’s PCA SKIN brand launched the first private sector health investigation on the ISS to better understand the effects of microgravity on genes and overall skin health. A common complaint from astronauts is that their skin becomes dry, flaky and thin in space, as we age, which led Colgate researchers to wonder if the microgravity environment is an accelerator of what happens in Earth, opening up a host of opportunities for new experiments.
