Striving for Mars: What are acceptable risks?

M Shuchman - Canadian Medical Association. Journal, 2014 - search.proquest.com
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Abstract "NASA ca nnot sa y, ' We ll, if an astronaut volunteers to go beyond a set of safety …

Mars mission could bring health benefits on Earth

M Renault - Nat Med, 2022 - nature.com
Atrip to Mars will cost the human body more than time. After the initial days of motion
sickness, an out-of-this-world physiological transformation sets in. Without gravity's …

[PDF][PDF] A journey to Mars: The medical challenges associated with deep space travel and possible solutions

C Galts - University of British Columbia Medical …, 2017 - med-fom-ubcmj.sites.olt.ubc.ca
UBCMJ Volume 8 Issue 2| March 2017 39 recently, far more complications have been
discovered, including visual, psychological, and cardiovascular pathologies. The plans of …

[HTML][HTML] Astronaut health beyond earth orbit

JR Ball, CH Evans Jr - Safe Passage: Astronaut Care for …, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND For more than three decades the US space community has been planning
to send humans on exploration-class missions to Mars (Burrows, 1998). In the post-Apollo …

Physicians called upon to help chart future space effort

C Marwick - JAMA, 1986 - jamanetwork.com
CONGRESS, THE PRESIDENT, and a task force of NASA's Advisory Council are studying a
report that looks beyond the present gloom and offers a glowing forecast—with implications …

After the Challenger

AL Hillman - New England Journal of Medicine, 1986 - Mass Medical Soc
THE tragic loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its crew intensifies the need to identify
meaningful long-term goals for the space program. The current hiatus in activities in space …

Medical issues for a human mission to Mars and martian surface expeditions

JA Jones, M Barratt, R Effenhauser… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The medical issues for an exploratory class mission to Mars are myriad and challenging.
They include hazards from the space environment, such as space vacuum and radiation; …

[PDF][PDF] The medical implications of space tourism

R Tarzwell - Aviation, space, and environmental medicine, 2000 - researchgate.net
Commercial space travel may soon be a reality. If so, microgravity, high acceleration, and
radiation exposure, all known hazards, will be accessible to the general public. Therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Physicians as astronauts

R Thirsk - McGill Journal of Medicine: MJM, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Romanow Commission:“I believe that the success of our Health Care System as a whole will
be judged not by the quality or service available in the best urban facilities, but by the …

Preparing for Mars: the physiologic and medical challenges.

JC Buckey Jr - European journal of medical research, 1999 - europepmc.org
As the twentieth century closes, retrospectives cite the Apollo moon missions as one of the
important events of the past 100 years. A trip to Mars, however, would be even more …