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Revisiting decompression sickness risk and mobility in the context of the SmartSuit, a hybrid planetary spacesuit
Gas pressurized spacesuits are cumbersome, cause injuries, and are metabolically expensive. Decreasing the gas pressure of the spacesuit is an...
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Planetary extravehicular activity (EVA) risk mitigation strategies for long-duration space missions
Extravehicular activity (EVA) is one of the most dangerous activities of human space exploration. To ensure astronaut safety and mission success, it...
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Toxicology Issues of Lunar Dust Effects on Biological Objects (Literature Review)
AbstractLong-term lunar missions by humans will require a toxicological and hygienic assessment of the biological activity of lunar dust as one of...
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Overview of lunar dust toxicity risk
Lunar dust (LD), the component of lunar regolith with particle sizes less than 20 μm, covers the surface of the Moon. Due to its fineness, jagged...
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Regolith Microelements as Factors of Potential Hazard to Future Settlers on the Moon
AbstractThe microelement composition of lunar soil was evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively, and its potential hazard to health of future Moon...
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Updates to the NASA human system risk management process for space exploration
This paper describes updates to NASA’s approach for assessing and mitigating spaceflight-induced risks to human health and performance. This approach...
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Machine learning workflow for edge computed arrhythmia detection in exploration class missions
Deep-space missions require preventative care methods based on predictive models for identifying in-space pathologies. Deploying such models requires...
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Retrospective analysis of somatic mutations and clonal hematopoiesis in astronauts
With planned deep space and commercial spaceflights, gaps remain to address health risks in astronauts. Multiple studies have shown associations...
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Operator’s Spatial Orientation Ability during Remote Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Virtual Reality Environments
AbstractFunctioning of remotely-piloted (RP) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in extreme, poorly structured environments often calls for immediate...
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Medical Support of Manned Long-Duration Missions (One Year or Longer) on the Mir Orbital Space Station
AbstractWe analyzed the results of medical control (MC) and medical situations and assessed the efficacy of measures to manage the medical cases...
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Biomedical findings from NASA’s Project Mercury: a case series
The United States first sent humans into space during six flights of Project Mercury from May 1961 to May 1963. These flights were brief, with...
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European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and meagre (Argyrosomus regius) fertilized egg resistance to a spacecraft launcher vibration qualifying test
Food autonomy represents an essential challenge for the future Moon Village planned by the European Space Agency. Rearing fish on the moon to provide...
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Vegetable Health Challenges in Extraterrestrial Production
Humanity has recently entered an exciting phase of space exploration in which government and private organizations have embraced the goal of...
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Hip load capacity cut-points for Astronaut Skeletal Health NASA Finite Element Strength Task Group Recommendations
Concerns raised at a 2010 Bone Summit held for National Aeronautics and Space Administration Johnson Space Center led experts in finite element (FE)...
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Gravity and the Tonic Postural Motor System
AbstractInesa Benediktovna Kozlovskaya is the head of a branch of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of...
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A cubesat centrifuge for long duration milligravity research
We advocate a low-cost strategy for long-duration research into the ‘milligravity’ environment of asteroids, comets and small moons, where surface...
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Towards human exploration of space: the THESEUS review series on muscle and bone research priorities
Without effective countermeasures, the musculoskeletal system is altered by the microgravity environment of long-duration spaceflight, resulting in...
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Biomechanical profile of the human-spacesuit interaction
Issues of optimizing the energetic, kinematic, and dynamical structures of the free movement of a system including a human and a spacesuit...
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Adaptation of humans to walking while wearing semi-hard and flexible spacesuits under terrestrial gravity
The spacesuit (SS) donning-on procedure can be viewed as a combination of two kinematic circuits into a single human-spacesuit functional system...