Space Explorers: Our Solar System

About the Author

Dr. Vienna Tran MBBS (Hons.), DAME, is an Australian Medical Doctor and Space medicine researcher. Vienna now works as a medical doctor in Mount Gambier, South Australia with a dream to pursue a road less travelled: space medicine. She is also a Designated Aviation Medical Examiner and has worked for the Australian Space Agency. She has published research on the use artificial gravity to maintain the muscle health of astronauts.

Vienna has undertaken postings with the Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). She is an alumnus of the International Space University’s Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program (ISU-SHSSP 2020) and the South Australian Space School.

As a passionate educator, Vienna enjoys mentoring school-aged students, giving public talks and writing articles on space health, industry and STEM.

Donough O’Malley is an Irish illustrator and designer currently based in the UK. With over seventeen years’ experience working for clients across the world, his work is used in a wide variety of areas such as editorial, advertising, fiction, and children’s picture books. As well as producing work for commercial clients, he has taken part in exhibitions in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the UK, and the USA.