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Episode 104: 378 Days on "Mars" and Back in the ER by Morning: The Resilience Blueprint of Dr. Nathan Jones
Dr. Nathan Jones is an ER physician, SWAT medic, and NASA CHAPEA Mission 1 medical officer — and his life reads less like a résumé and more like a dare. In this episode, he traces the thread from a rural Midwest childhood shaped by his father's international eye missions, to overnight shifts in central Illinois, to practicing medicine in the jungles of Honduras, to 378 days sealed inside NASA's simulated Mars habitat with 22-minute communication delays and no hardware store within 140 million miles. It's not a story about credentials — it's what happens when you spend a lifetime saying yes to…
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