‘Impossible to Call a Doctor’: NASA and Google Are Developing an AI Lifeline That Will Save Astronauts Heading to Mars

‘Impossible to Call a Doctor’: NASA and Google Are Developing an AI Lifeline That Will Save Astronauts Heading to Mars

NASA and Google have teamed up to develop the “Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant” (CMO‑DA), an AI-based clinical support system designed to assist astronauts on missions where reaching a human doctor is literally impossible. This proof of concept illustrates a quietly brilliant step forward in space exploration. Why an AI Physician Makes Sense on Mars Imagine being millions of kilometers from Earth, experiencing a sudden health issue, and r…