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Book Space Exploration Brings Human What Benefits

Download or read book Space Exploration Brings Human What Benefits written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write this book aims to readers feel whether space exploitation will brings human which aspects of benefits. I shall indicate these several aspects to let you think. This book divides three aspects of space exploration benefits to be explained. Firstly, I shall indicate space tourism leisure aspect benefit: Whether will future space tourism market development be popular to travelling consumers in global? What factors can influence traveler prefer to choose space tourism entertainment? How to predict future space tourism traveler individual entertainment desire whether it strong or weak? How to attract travelers to choose space tourism entertainment? What entertainment benefits to human to earn when we spend space tourism leisure. In this space tourism leisure benefit aspect, I shall apply psychologists and space tourism entertainment businessmen opinions to attempt to answer above questions. Readers will have new knowledge and mind to learn how to predict future space tourism leisure business development will bring human what aspect of benefits. Secondly, I shall indicate what aspects of related benefits which space exploration will brings related benefits to human future essential history development. In this space exploration related benefits aspect, I shall indicate whether which kind of natural resource will have potential effort to provide human to explore in order to solve energy shortage crisis. I also indicate which challenges human will face in our exploring of this kind of natural resource process and indicate opinions to solve them. Then, I shall indicate how my scientific computer industry development trend which will have related benefits from space exploration. Human can invent scientific computer products to be applied to which kinds of aspects in our daily life. Next, I shall explain how space exploration will bring future biotechnology reproductive science benefits. Finally, I shall explain why space exploration will bring global health benefits to us, as well as explain how and why space exploration will assist health science to raise excellent health service performance to serve patients efficiently and satisfactory. Thirdly, it concerns to explain this question. Can space exploration raise human standard of life quality ? In this human standard of life quality benefit aspect, I give opinions to judge whether human can get what economy or human life benefits or disadvantages to influence our society from any space resources exploration missions in possibility. Such as water, foods, energy, oil, gas, soil that human will either find or won't find in space in possibility. Thus, consequently, if human can find these any one of natural resource from space that it is worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Otherwise, consequently if human can not find these any one of natural resource from space that it is not worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Thus, the successful of space exploration possibility is not ensure. In my book, I shall also give opinions to concern how space exploration will influence humans need to be changed life style or attitude to adapt psychological and needs change to our daily life in our societies if any space exploration mission is successful. In this human standard of life quality benefit aspect, I shall attempt to give my opinions to focus to answer this central question: Can humans achieve space resource exploration aim? How do humans need to adapt to change their life style to satisfy psychological and psychological needs, during space resource exploration mission would achieve the success in the future one day ? What benefits or welfares and/or disadvantages can influence human life when space scientists are carrying on experimenting any space resource exploration mission?

Book Benefits Stemming from Space Exploration

Download or read book Benefits Stemming from Space Exploration written by Isecg and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space Exploration Brings Positive Or Negative Impact to Human Development

Download or read book Space Exploration Brings Positive Or Negative Impact to Human Development written by Johnny Ch LOK and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IntroductionCan space exploration raise human standard of life quality ? Whether it will positive or negative more impact to influence human future development.This book concerns I give opinions to judge whether human can get what economy or human life benefits or disadvantages to influence our society from any space resources exploration missions in possibility. Such as water, foods, energy, oil, gas, soil that human will either find or won't find in space in possibility. Thus, consequently, if human can find these any one of natural resource from space that it is worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Otherwise, consequently if human can not find these any one of natural resource from space that it is not worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Thus, the successful of space exploration possibility is not ensure. In my book, I shall also give opinions to concern how space exploration will influence humans need to be changed life style or attitude to adapt psychological and needs change to our daily life in our societies if any space exploration mission is successful.In this book, I shall attempt to give my opinions to attempt to focus to answer this central question: Can humans achieve space resource exploration aim? How do humans need to adapt to change their life style to satisfy psychological and psychological needs, during space resource exploration mission would achieve the success in the future one day ? What benefits or welfares and/or disadvantages can influence human life when space scientists are carrying on experimenting any space resource exploration mission?It is suitable to any readers who have interest to acknowledge more any space exploration issues how to influence human ourselves psychological and psychological needs to order to adapt to change our daily life as well as researching whether what disadvantages and/or disadvantages that we can get from space exploration.

Book How Space Exploration Brings Positive Or Negative Influences to Our Life

Download or read book How Space Exploration Brings Positive Or Negative Influences to Our Life written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction Can space exploration raise human standard of life quality ? This book concerns I give opinions to judge whether human can get what economy or human life benefits or disadvantages to influence our society from any space resources exploration missions in possibility. Such as water, foods, energy, oil, gas, soil that human will either find or won't find in space in possibility. Thus, consequently, if human can find these any one of natural resource from space that it is worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Otherwise, consequently if human can not find these any one of natural resource from space that it is not worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Thus, the successful of space exploration possibility is not ensure. In my book, I shall also give opinions to concern how space exploration will influence humans need to be changed life style or attitude to adapt psychological and needs change to our daily life in our societies if any space exploration mission is successful. In this book, I shall attempt to give my opinions to attempt to focus to answer this central question: Can humans achieve space resource exploration aim? How do humans need to adapt to change their life style to satisfy psychological and psychological needs, during space resource exploration mission would achieve the success in the future one day ? What benefits or welfares and/or disadvantages can influence human life when space scientists are carrying on experimenting any space resource exploration mission? It is suitable to any readers who have interest to acknowledge more any space exploration issues how to influence human ourselves psychological and psychological needs to order to adapt to change our daily life as well as researching whether what disadvantages and/or disadvantages that we can get from space exploration.

Book Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration

Download or read book Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as evidenced by progressively more advanced orbiting human outposts, culminating in the current International Space Station (ISS). However, of the more than 500 humans who have so far ventured into space, most have gone only as far as near-Earth orbit, and none have traveled beyond the orbit of the Moon. Achieving humans' further progress into the solar system had proved far more difficult than imagined in the heady days of the Apollo missions, but the potential rewards remain substantial. During its more than 50-year history, NASA's success in human space exploration has depended on the agency's ability to effectively address a wide range of biomedical, engineering, physical science, and related obstacles-an achievement made possible by NASA's strong and productive commitments to life and physical sciences research for human space exploration, and by its use of human space exploration infrastructures for scientific discovery. The Committee for the Decadal Survey of Biological and Physical Sciences acknowledges the many achievements of NASA, which are all the more remarkable given budgetary challenges and changing directions within the agency. In the past decade, however, a consequence of those challenges has been a life and physical sciences research program that was dramatically reduced in both scale and scope, with the result that the agency is poorly positioned to take full advantage of the scientific opportunities offered by the now fully equipped and staffed ISS laboratory, or to effectively pursue the scientific research needed to support the development of advanced human exploration capabilities. Although its review has left it deeply concerned about the current state of NASA's life and physical sciences research, the Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space is nevertheless convinced that a focused science and engineering program can achieve successes that will bring the space community, the U.S. public, and policymakers to an understanding that we are ready for the next significant phase of human space exploration. The goal of this report is to lay out steps and develop a forward-looking portfolio of research that will provide the basis for recapturing the excitement and value of human spaceflight-thereby enabling the U.S. space program to deliver on new exploration initiatives that serve the nation, excite the public, and place the United States again at the forefront of space exploration for the global good.

Book Pale Blue Dot

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carl Sagan
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2011-07-06
  • ISBN : 0307801012
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Pale Blue Dot written by Carl Sagan and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . memorable . . . revealing . . . perhaps the best of Carl Sagan’s books.”—The Washington Post Book World (front page review) In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time. Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race. “Takes readers far beyond Cosmos . . . Sagan sees humanity’s future in the stars.”—Chicago Tribune

Book Human Health and Performance Risks of Space Exploration Missions

Download or read book Human Health and Performance Risks of Space Exploration Missions written by Jancy C. McPhee and published by U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space Exploration Impossible Benefits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johnny Ch Lok
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-30
  • ISBN : 9781724569455
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Space Exploration Impossible Benefits written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I write this book aims to readers feel whether space exploitation will brings human which aspects of benefits. I shall indicate these several aspects to let you think. This book divides three aspects of space exploration benefits to be explained. Firstly, I shall indicate space tourism leisure aspect benefit: Whether will future space tourism market development be popular to travelling consumers in global? What factors can influence traveler prefer to choose space tourism entertainment? How to predict future space tourism traveler individual entertainment desire whether it strong or weak? How to attract travelers to choose space tourism entertainment? What entertainment benefits to human to earn when we spend space tourism leisure. In this space tourism leisure benefit aspect, I shall apply psychologists and space tourism entertainment businessmen opinions to attempt to answer above questions. Readers will have new knowledge and mind to learn how to predict future space tourism leisure business development will bring human what aspect of benefits. Secondly, I shall indicate what aspects of related benefits which space exploration will brings related benefits to human future essential history development. In this space exploration related benefits aspect, I shall indicate whether which kind of natural resource will have potential effort to provide human to explore in order to solve energy shortage crisis. I also indicate which challenges human will face in our exploring of this kind of natural resource process and indicate opinions to solve them. Then, I shall indicate how my scientific computer industry development trend which will have related benefits from space exploration. Human can invent scientific computer products to be applied to which kinds of aspects in our daily life. Next, I shall explain how space exploration will bring future biotechnology reproductive science benefits. Finally, I shall explain why space exploration will bring global health benefits to us, as well as explain how and why space exploration will assist health science to raise excellent health service performance to serve patients efficiently and satisfactory. Thirdly, it concerns to explain this question. Can space exploration raise human standard of life quality ? In this human standard of life quality benefit aspect, I give opinions to judge whether human can get what economy or human life benefits or disadvantages to influence our society from any space resources exploration missions in possibility. Such as water, foods, energy, oil, gas, soil that human will either find or won't find in space in possibility. Thus, consequently, if human can find these any one of natural resource from space that it is worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Otherwise, consequently if human can not find these any one of natural resource from space that it is not worth to spend money and time and human resource to invest to these space exploration missions. Thus, the successful of space exploration possibility is not ensure. In my book, I shall also give opinions to concern how space exploration will influence humans need to be changed life style or attitude to adapt psychological and needs change to our daily life in our societies if any space exploration mission is successful.

Book Space Tourism Exploration Brings Human What Benefits

Download or read book Space Tourism Exploration Brings Human What Benefits written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is space exploration preparing mission one method to raise space tourism leisure consumption strategy? Although, space tourism industry is a real enjoyment and exciting travelling leisure to human. It is possible that human will choose to consume space tourism leisure to replace earth tourism leisure, if human felt that earth tourism leisure is not attractive to them to consume to go to anywhere to travel in their leisure time.But, I believe that space tourism industry has still many factors to influence human to choose to consume space tourism leisure, even they will consider space tourism leisure consumption I is only one time space tourism in their life time. Hence, space tourism companies ought achieve this aim to persuade or attract everyone prefer to spend space tourism leisure at least one time in their life, then it can represent success. However, I think to achieve this aim, it has these challenges to influence their success, even they believe space tourism leisure business is one potential attractive travel entertainment business. These challenges include such as: expensive space tourism ticket price issue, catching spacecraft safe issue, space traveler personal body health issue, age issue, family and friend relationship influence issue, working time and holiday time arrangement issue, the space trip arrangement issue, weather issue etc. different challenges, which will have possible to influence every space tourism planner either who decide change to cancel the time space tourism plan, or forgive to choose space tourism leisure in their life forever.Hence, how to raise space tourism leisure consumption desire will be one considerable matter for any space tourism leisure businessmen. I shall indicate my personal three aspect of strategical opinions to let them to know how to raise every space tourism planner individual space tourism leisure consumption desire to avoid every time space tourism passenger number will have decrease failure chance as below: -(1) Strategic opinionOn the first aspect of strategic opinion, I feel that the space education tutor can teach new space knowledge to let every space traveler to learn any new space and earth knowledge during he/she is catching on the spacecraft in personal contact learning experience environment which can raise space tourism consumption desire. The reason is because the space tourism leisure traveler can raise extra space and earth learning knowledge when they can catch the spacecraft to fly and contact the space environment to learn and feel what the differences are between space and earth by himself or herself. Hence, it is very attractive to the space traveler student target group and I believe that their parents will encourage their sons or daughters to participate the time of space trip and they are more preferable to help them to buy the time space trip ticket, due to their sons and daughters can learn any space knowledge when they are studying. Moreover, every space traveler will feel surprise to learn any new space and earth knowledge from the space tutor's teaching, due to he/she is unknown that this space travel trip includes learning space and earth knowledge.I suggest that the space tourism leisure businessmen can give learning opportunity to every travel trip space travelers to feel that this space actual environment can bring what disadvantages or advantages to influence our earth when they are catching aircraft to fly to space to travel in every space trip. The space and earth learning knowledge can include these two aspects of space learning knowledge and experience below: On the teaching of space environment learning knowledge hand, the topics can include as below:

Book NASA s Journey to Mars  Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration

Download or read book NASA s Journey to Mars Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document communicates NASA’s strategy and progress to learn about the Red Planet, to inform us more about our Earth’s past and future, and may help answer whether life exists beyond our home planet. Together with NASA’s partners in academia and commercial enterprises, NASA’s vision is to pioneer Mars and answer some of humanity’s fundamental questions: • Was Mars home to microbial life? Is it today? • Could it be a safe home for humans one day? • What can it teach us about life elsewhere in the cosmos or how life began on Earth? • What can it teach us about Earth’s past, present, and future?

Book Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space

Download or read book Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-08-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space was written in response to a request from NASA's Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA) to evaluate its Advanced Human Support Technology Program. This report reviews the four major areas of the program: advanced life support (ALS), environmental monitoring and control (EMC), extravehicular activities (EVA), and space human factors (SHF). The focus of this program is on long-term technology development applicable to future human long-duration space missions, such as for a hypothetical new mission to the Moon or Mars.

Book The Overview Effect

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank White
  • Publisher : AIAA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9781563472602
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Overview Effect written by Frank White and published by AIAA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using interviews with and writings by astronauts and cosmonauts, discusses how viewing the Earth from space and from the moon affect space explorers' perceptions of the world and humanity, and how those changes are likewise felt in contemporary society. The author views space exploration and eventual colonization as an inevitable step in the evolution of human society and consciousness, one which offers new perspectives on the problems facing us down here on Earth. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Space Chronicles  Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Download or read book Space Chronicles Facing the Ultimate Frontier written by Neil deGrasse Tyson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling appeal, at just the right time, for continuing to look up.”—Air & Space America’s space program is at a turning point. After decades of global primacy, NASA has ended the space-shuttle program, cutting off its access to space. No astronauts will be launched in an American craft, from American soil, until the 2020s, and NASA may soon find itself eclipsed by other countries’ space programs. With his signature wit and thought-provoking insights, Neil deGrasse Tyson—one of our foremost thinkers on all things space—illuminates the past, present, and future of space exploration and brilliantly reminds us why NASA matters now as much as ever. As Tyson reveals, exploring the space frontier can profoundly enrich many aspects of our daily lives, from education systems and the economy to national security and morale. For America to maintain its status as a global leader and a technological innovator, he explains, we must regain our enthusiasm and curiosity about what lies beyond our world. Provocative, humorous, and wonderfully readable, Space Chronicles represents the best of Tyson’s recent commentary, including a must-read prologue on NASA and partisan politics. Reflecting on topics that range from scientific literacy to space-travel missteps, Tyson gives us an urgent, clear-eyed, and ultimately inspiring vision for the future.

Book Pathways to Exploration

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2014-09-30
  • ISBN : 0309305101
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Pathways to Exploration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades. Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility - the International Space Station - that is becoming the focal point for the first tentative steps in commercial cargo and crewed orbital space flights. And yet, the long-term future of human spaceflight beyond this project is unclear. Pronouncements by multiple presidents of bold new ventures by Americans to the Moon, to Mars, and to an asteroid in its native orbit, have not been matched by the same commitment that accompanied President Kennedy\'s now fabled 1961 speech-namely, the substantial increase in NASA funding needed to make it happen. Are we still committed to advancing human spaceflight? What should a long-term goal be, and what does the United States need to do to achieve it? Pathways to Exploration explores the case for advancing this endeavor, drawing on the history of rationales for human spaceflight, examining the attitudes of stakeholders and the public, and carefully assessing the technical and fiscal realities. This report recommends maintaining the long-term focus on Mars as the horizon goal for human space exploration. With this goal in mind, the report considers funding levels necessary to maintain a robust tempo of execution, current research and exploration projects and the time/resources needed to continue them, and international cooperation that could contribute to the achievement of spaceflight to Mars. According to Pathways to Exploration, a successful U.S. program would require sustained national commitment and a budget that increases by more than the rate of inflation. In reviving a U.S. human exploration program capable of answering the enduring questions about humanity's destiny beyond our tiny blue planet, the nation will need to grapple with the attitudinal and fiscal realities of the nation today while staying true to a small but crucial set of fundamental principles for the conduct of exploration of the endless frontier. The recommendations of Pathways to Exploration provide a clear map toward a human spaceflight program that inspires students and citizens by furthering human exploration and discovery, while taking into account the long-term commitment necessary to achieve this goal.

Book Space Exploration Brings Future Positive Or Negative Influences

Download or read book Space Exploration Brings Future Positive Or Negative Influences written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibilities for benefit creation, when the products of space exploration interact with the imagination and creativity present. Cultural benefits may depend on exploration mission stories and images spreading broadly across society. Education organizations can earn benefits to maximize societal impact, space agencies share space exploration results to cooperate with research institutions, businesses, universities, schools, museums to learn space science knowledge in societies. TO sum up, the direct benefits include humans are inspired, scientific knowledge is generated, innovation is transferred to applications, capacity and productivity of working in space are enhanced, markets for space products and services are created and international space exploration partnership strength as well as the indirect benefits include economic prosperity, health improvement, environmental benefit, safety and security, human experience is expanded, understanding of humankind's place in the universe is enhanced.On innovation and economic benefits hand, the challenge of space exploration needs to research how to innovate more reliable and efficient systems to prepare to carrying on experimenting space exploration missions.However, space exploration mission use the unique capabilities of humans, e.g. on the spot decision making, cognitive adaptability, versatility and robots, e.g. precision, sensory, accuracy, reliability and expandability to achieve ambitious exploration goals. Thus, maximize the productivity of these missions by demanding on effective partnership between humans and machines driving progress in human health care, robotics, automation.On creative more space technological jobs and soluble difficult space technology to human aspect, how to overcome the challenges of working, space has led to many technological and scientific advances that have provided benefits to society in earth in areas including health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer products, energy and environment, information technology and industrial productivity. For example, the technological benefits include improved solar panels, implantable heart monitors, light -based weight high temperature alloys used in jet engine turbines, cameras fond in today's mobile phones, compact water-purification systems, global search and rescue systems and biomedical technology etc. different kinds of space technological products.On space discoveries with benefits for life on earth hand, ongoing research in the space environment, in areas, such as human physiology, plant, biology, materials science and fundamental physics, insights that benefit society. For example, studies of the human body's response to extended periods in the microgravity environment in planetary evolution space environment. For another example, one of the lessons from Apollo moon exploration program is that having a visible space exploration program is important in encouraging young people to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Finally, on enlarged economic benefits hand, the early space activities have undoubtedly enlarged our economic benefits to our societies. Recently private initiatives have been launched to extend the economic sphere even further, extending to the moon asteroids, and even Mars planets in space.

Book The Human Exploration of Space

Download or read book The Human Exploration of Space written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During 1988, the National Research Council's Space Science Board reorganized itself to more effectively address NASA's advisory needs. The Board's scope was broadened: it was renamed the Space Studies Board and, among other new initiatives, the Committee on Human Exploration was created. The new committee was intended to focus on the scientific aspects of human exploration programs, rather than engineering issues. Their research led to three reports: Scientific Prerequisites for the Human Exploration of Space published in 1993, Scientific Opportunities in the Human Exploration of Space published in 1994, and Science Management in the Human Exploration of Space published in 1997. These three reports are collected and reprinted in this volume in their entirety as originally published.

Book Safe Passage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institute of Medicine
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2001-11-20
  • ISBN : 0309170311
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Safe Passage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-11-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safe Passage: Astronaut Care for Exploration Missions sets forth a vision for space medicine as it applies to deep space voyage. As space missions increase in duration from months to years and extend well beyond Earth's orbit, so will the attendant risks of working in these extreme and isolated environmental conditions. Hazards to astronaut health range from greater radiation exposure and loss of bone and muscle density to intensified psychological stress from living with others in a confined space. Going beyond the body of biomedical research, the report examines existing space medicine clinical and behavioral research and health care data and the policies attendant to them. It describes why not enough is known today about the dangers of prolonged travel to enable humans to venture into deep space in a safe and sane manner. The report makes a number of recommendations concerning NASA's structure for clinical and behavioral research, on the need for a comprehensive astronaut health care system and on an approach to communicating health and safety risks to astronauts, their families, and the public.