Human Health and Performance
Human Health and Performance delivers research and technology knowledge and tools
in five ares of life sciences that will enable human space exploration:
- Human health countermeasures, including exercise devices and prescriptions,
recommendations for artificial gravity use, understanding and
requirements for use of drugs and nutrition, as well as countermeasures
for individual body systems
- Countermeasures and preventive tools to improve potential behavioral health
and performance problems such as poor crew psychosocial interactions,
individual psychiatric problems, and cognitive capabilities
in space exploration crews
- Tools and techniques to improve medical care delivery to space exploration crews.
These include preventive medicine strategies, tools and advanced
instrumentation for autonomous medical care, monitoring, diagnosis,
and treatment, as well as medical informatics databases
- Biomedical knowledge and tools to reduce the uncertainty of estimation of space
radiation health risks to human crews of acute and long-life
carcinogenesis, brain and other tissue non-cancer damage, as
well as heredity, fertility and sterility, and to develop and
test effectiveness of existing and novel radiation shielding
materials
- New information in exploration biology, which will identify and define the scope
of problems which wil face future human space explorers during
long periods of exposure to space
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