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Awards 2020 APS honors members in the earliest stages of their careers as well as accomplished leaders with the field’s most prestigious awards and recognitions. See the full list of 2020 award recipients Page 27 IN THIS ISSUE (CONT.) MAY/JUNE 2020 44 How Do We Get to Mars? (And How Do “ There are many reasons We Stay Psychologically immigrants have a hard Healthy in the Process?) time—discrimination, low Mars missions are likely to last resources, lack of cultural 30+ months. The Translational capital. However, one Research Institute for Space Health aspect of many immigrant wants to find and fund disruptive, breakthrough approaches that reduce challenges is not feeling risks to astronauts’ psychological and or not being perceived as behavioral health and performance. feeling in the ‘right’ way; the way that is culturally attuned in the majority 50 Teaching Current Directions in culture environment. 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