February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
... risks of genetic mutations, so protecting plants from radiation should be a priority One of the main issues for astronauts’ health in microgravity is bone density loss. Our bones are constantly balanced between growth and resorption, allowing bones...
October 2024
Revolutionising space medicine and global health through virtual and augmented reality
... and knowledge gaps. GE Healthcare’s wearable biomedical devices have been used to enable NASA flight surgeons to monitor astronauts’ health in real-time during critical aspects of missions, such as spacewalks, and allow for further analysis of data...
February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...-divisional team of operations experts integrating and testing ISS operations hardware in domains of crew operations or astronaut health, including both in-house and external developments concentrates on ESA activities that are closely related to the...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...-could-happen-sooner-than-expected/ 2 Tripathi, Ram K., Principal Investigaor,”Meeting the Grand Challenge of Protecting Astronaut Health, “Electrostatic Active Space Radiation Shield for Deep Space Missions” NASA National Innovative Advance Concepts...
27 October 2015
Skin deep: news study of the ISS and Actinobacteria
... based on Earth. The study authors hope to contribute to a greater understanding of what it means to preserve astronaut health. This is especially important, considering humanity’s continued longing for Mars. By better understanding the environment...
