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Brain-monitoring helmet is heading to space

STORY: This brain-monitoring helmet is going to space

to test the brain activity of astronauts

as they perform 20 minutes of tasks

YAIR LEVY, CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF BRAIN.SPACE:

"Our mission in Brain.Space is to actually provide an easy access to the human mind. what we would like to achieve, our vision, is to create a language of the brain and to allow physicians, researchers and even app developers to use this language and to create product and services based on the brain."

The electroencephalogram (EEG)-enabled helmet

has 460 airbrushes connected to the scalp

designed to collect data from the subjects

The experiment is part of a SpaceX shuttle flight

to the International Space Station (ISS)

which is expected to depart for a 10-day mission on April 3