Jon B. Olansen began his career in NASA's Mission Control, supporting 32 space shuttle missions. He then obtained his Ph.D. as a National Instruments Fellow at Rice University, where he specialized in biomedical experimentation in electrophysiology and cardiopulmonary dynamics. He has since returned to NASA, representing the Astronaut Office in the design, development, and operation of human life sciences experiments on the International Space Station. Olansen is also president of VBI Development Company, which provides biomedical software design and consulting services. Eric Rosow has over 16 years of experience in biomedical engineering and life science applications of virtual instrumentation. Rosow is Director of Biomedical Engineering at Hartford Hospital, where he introduced virtual instrumentation into the hospital environment. He is also a co-founder of Premise Development Corporation, a software company for the biomedical and healthcare industries. Rosow holds six patents and has published over 45 academic papers.