Building a Space-Faring Civilization
Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight
- 1st Edition - January 29, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Michael Schmidt A, Marianne Legato J
- Language: English
Building a Space-Faring Civilization: Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine, and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight explores an expanding, unique new trajector… Read more
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Description
Building a Space-Faring Civilization: Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine, and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight explores an expanding, unique new trajectory for humankind—the settlement of space by civilians. For the first time in history, average humans can contemplate journeys to Earth orbit, the Moon, and Mars with the idea of space settlement as a plausible reality. As the numbers of spacefaring civilians grow, medical personnel will be asked to meet their complex needs through an ever-expanding discipline—space medicine. But this will require a rapidly advancing science to address what some are calling the next great age in space.
This book gathers some of the most accomplished thought leaders in the field of human spaceflight today. Collectively, they helped build the international space station (ISS), develop the field of orbital medicine, guide the development of commercial orbital platforms, plan missions to the Moon and Mars, and forge the innovation necessary for the commercial spaceflight industry to thrive today. The result is an exceptional source of wisdom, experience, and insight surrounding the current biomedical, technical, industrial, legal, and social implications of what is emerging as a true renaissance period in human history.
Key features
Key features
- Describes the lessons learned from past explorers from the Renaissance to the present, and how they can guide space exploration today
- Characterizes the risks encountered in the exploration and settlement of different domains of space
- Surveys the types of medical incidents civilian space travelers are likely to encounter, based on professional astronaut reports
- Summarizes the types of biomedical assessment civilian space travelers will require in order to ready themselves for the dangers of space
- Explores the types of preparation, training, and medical countermeasures needed to live and work in space
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Civilian spaceflight: inspiration from the arts of the Italian Renaissance
3. Space—and the third great age of discovery
4. What do we think about when we think about settling space? An inclusive perspective
5. Galileo and space colonization
6. Vast is not infinite: challenges to governance and justice due to concentrated and finite space resources
7. The frontier of mining space resources and preparing human explorers and workers for those operations
8. What the first commercial space station means for humanity
9. The human experience of conducting engineering and construction operations in space
10. Humanity in the orbital age
11. Space architecture and the four futures of human space flight
12. Insights into spaceflight team performance gleaned from the exploration of challenging environments on Earth
13. Human Systems Integration: insights from exploring the sky and space: mitigation strategies for future space operations
14. Risk and systems knowledge in human spaceflight
15. Preparing for the unpredictable: facilitating multisystem resilience in human spaceflight
16. Twin studies, biobanks, and genome engineering to enable long-duration spaceflight
17. Using functionally characterized networks in the application of precision medicine in spaceflight
18. The Astronaut Digital Twin: accelerating discovery and countermeasure development in the optimization of human space exploration
19. Lessons learned—Part I: Medical screening, standards, and in-flight medical incidents, events, or risks
20. Lessons learned part II: in-flight medical equipment, capabilities, and countermeasures; and new medical paradigms for the future flights to low earth orbit and beyond!
21. Harnessing neuroplasticity’s features for civilian spaceflight through remediation and treatment
22. The critical imperatives of behavioral resilience in civilian space flight travelers
23. The human research program for civilian spaceflight
24. Biotechnology for a spacefaring civilization—necessary and challenging
25. Foundations of a Space Bill of Rights
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 29, 2025
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
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Michael Schmidt A
Dr. Michael A. Schmidt is the CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sovaris Aerospace. He is a leader in precision medicine applied to humans operating in extreme environments on Earth and in space. Dr. Schmidt has three decades of experience working with elite performers in extreme environments including astronauts, military Special Forces, NFL, NBA, Olympic athletes, military aviators, and others. This includes his early research within NASA’s Human Systems Integration Division. Dr. Schmidt is the President of the Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and is the former President of the Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch (LSBEB) of the Aerospace Medical Association. His molecular work in space is highlighted in a special 2024 issue of Nature entitled, “Space Omics.” His recent innovations include the Astronaut Digital Twin. Dr. Schmidt is the 2019 winner of the Research & Development Innovation Award from the Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association. He is the 2020 recipient of the Marie Marving Award for Excellence in Aerospace Medicine from the Aerospace Medical Association.
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