The evidence reports reviewed in this IOM report are part of a larger roadmap process developed and under implementation by NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP). The goals of the HRP are to “provide human health and performance countermeasures, knowledge, technologies, and tools to enable safe, reliable, and productive human space exploration” (NASA, 2014e). As outlined in Figure 1, the evidence reports are the first part of the roadmap, which is followed by clarifying the risks, specifying the research gaps to address those risks, implementing research tasks, and obtaining deliverables. These steps are then assessed to ascertain progress in preventing or mitigating the risk to astronaut health. NASA updates its progress on risk reduction for four design reference missions: (1) 12-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS); (2) lunar (outpost) mission; (3) deep space journey mission (e.g., near earth asteroid); and (4) planetary mission (e.g., Mars) by identifying the extent to which there is evidence that the plans for that mission will meet existing crew health standards or that countermeasures exist to control the risk (NASA, 2013c).
Review of NASA's Evidence Reports on Human Health Risks: 2014 Letter Report
2015
92 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Environmental & Occupational Factors , Clinical Medicine , Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Job Environment , Industrial Safety Engineering , Occupation safety and health , Health risks , Injury , exploration spaceflights , Dynamic loads , Clincial medicine , Behavioral health , radition , Radition effects , HUMAN FACTORS , National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) , Spaceflight-induced Intracranial Hypertension