58YRS OF HUMANS IN SPACE: Biomedical Challenge/Lessons for Interplanetary Travel

Join a DINNER & PRESENTATION series by the AIAA - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ($5 no meal, $25 with meal; see link):

5:30 - 6:40 Socializing, 6pm DINNER
6:40 - 8:30 SPEAKER
8:30 - 9:00 More Socializing, Debating, Networking

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The Interplanetary Spaceflight Implications of 58 Years of
Human Space Experience, esp Mitigating Limitations and Hazards will be discussed by

SPACE MEDICINE EXPERT: DR. JAMES S. LOGAN, MD, MS

• 22 yr career at NASA, including:
• Chief of Flight Medicine
• Chief of Medical Operations
• Mission Control Surgeon / Crew Surgeon for 25 shuttle missions
• Project Manager for the Space Station Medical Facility
• Developed initial design for telemedicine-based inflight medical delivery system for extended missions
• President, CEO & Co-Founder of Space Enterprise Institute

Broad outlines of human adaptation (or lack thereof) to the space environment have been largely delineated by over 555 crew in 275 missions yielding cumulative exposures of over 145 person-years since 1961. However, over 99% of inflight experience has been in low earth orbit, the vast majority in missions less than six months duration. Improved characterization of deep space environments (including planetary orbits and surfaces) and reasonable evidence-based extrapolation of psychophysiological realities conspire to make Biomedical constraints the chief challenge (along with Flight Dynamics) to the anticipated era of Human Interplanetary Spaceflight.

Unless sufficient proactive attention is devoted to such challenges by senior managers, mission planners, research program directors, spacecraft designers, entrepreneurs and investors, the vision of humankind as a celestial species will remain elusive. Success will require fundamental changes to human interplanetary exploration mission designs, scenarios and techniques that may be beyond the adaptive capabilities of existing organizations and agencies. The current state of preparedness for the human interplanetary spaceflight era remains woefully inadequate. Multidisciplinary systems approach, innovative mission architectures and selective technology development could, in synergistic combination, significantly mitigate known as well as anticipated biomedical limitations and hazards.
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Learn more about

• the limited experience, past and existing, we have for Interplanetary Flight.
• the challenges of the Deep Space Environment on Interplanetary Space Travel.
• the anticipated biomedical limitations and hazards
• how we could potentially mitigate those limitation and hazards.
• how our currently inadequate preparedness of Human Interplanetary Spaceflight could be improved.
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Network with the speaker, aerospace professionals, engineers, pilots, biomedical experts, scientists, educators, students, and enthusiasts etc.

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