New aerospace medicine program to study long-term effects of space travel

How to deal with the harmful effects of space on the human body? In Planica, they are looking for ways to curb the negative effects with various training strategies. The second phase of the BRAVE research is currently underway there in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

This initiative seeks to address health challenges experienced by astronauts, who face multiple physical and psychological risks after long periods of microgravity

New aerospace medicine program to study long-term effects of space travel

A new program at Texas A&M University will charge doctors with discovering more about the effects of long-duration space flight.

Impact of Female Space Travel on Progeny Health

Spaceflight presents unique microgravity, hypergravity, radiation, and isolation hazards for astronauts. Notably, spaceflight impacts on many life sustaining physiologic systems (e.g., cardiac, musculoskeletal) are known, while impacts on the reproductive systems and progeny of space travelers ar...

How Do We Do Research in Zero Gravity? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 62

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) How do we do research in zero gravity? Actually when astronauts do experiments on the International Space Station, for instance, to environment on organisms, that environment is actually technically called microgravity. That is, things feel weightless, but we’re still under the influence of Earth’s gravity. Now, the very microgravity that we’re trying to study up the…

Astronauts undergo years of rigorous training to be sent to the International Space Station. Yet their bodies undergo many changes in microgravity. Texas A&M University’s aerospace medicine program is putting long-duration spaceflight at the center of its research, a first of its kind.