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Building a Space-Faring Civilization
Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2025
- Editors: Michael Schmidt A, Marianne Legato J
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 5 0 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 8 5 1 - 5
Building a Space-Faring Civilization: Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight explores an exponentially expanding, unique ne… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBuilding a Space-Faring Civilization: Advancing the Renaissance of Science, Medicine and Human Performance in Civilian Spaceflight explores an exponentially 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), developed the entire field of orbital medicine, guided the development of commercial orbital platforms, planned missions to the Moon and Mars, and helped 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.
- 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
Scientists, clinicians and individuals interested in participating in space programs. practicing physicians with an interest in biology and medicine in extreme environments. There are enormous opportunities for venture capital investment, pharmaceutical research programs focusing on drug treatments adapted for administration in microgravity and the use of expertise from a whole multiplicity of specialists in the social sciences and psychology and Pharma
1. Introduction: What Are the Seminal Attributes of a Spacefaring Civiliation?
2. Why Precision Medicine is the Frontier of Medicine & Performance for Humans in Space
3. The Need for Systems Medicine and Causal Modeling
4. What is the frontier of mining space resources and the humans role?
5. Training civilian astronauts for living and working in space
6. Building a Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight
7. Multi-Omic Profiles of Human Adaptation to Spaceflight and the Contribution of the Cornell-SpaceX Aerospace Biobank to Civilian Spaceflight
8. Medical Implications of the First Return to the Moon
9. What the First Commercial Space Station Means for Humanity
10. From Training to Flight: What can a civilian astronaut expect in space?
11. Harnessing energy from space
12. Social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of civilian space travel
13. Preparing for the Unpredictable: Facilitating Multi-System Resilience in Human Spaceflight
14. Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space
15. Psychophysiology
16. How Pharmaceutical and Biological Discovery in Space Will Advance Medical Applications on Earth and in Space
17. Integrating Research into Commercial Spaceflight
18. Orbital Reef-
19. What is the frontier of biotechnology in low Earth orbit
20. Demonstration: Holographic Sensory Enrichment for Prolonged Spaceflight and Habitation
2. Why Precision Medicine is the Frontier of Medicine & Performance for Humans in Space
3. The Need for Systems Medicine and Causal Modeling
4. What is the frontier of mining space resources and the humans role?
5. Training civilian astronauts for living and working in space
6. Building a Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight
7. Multi-Omic Profiles of Human Adaptation to Spaceflight and the Contribution of the Cornell-SpaceX Aerospace Biobank to Civilian Spaceflight
8. Medical Implications of the First Return to the Moon
9. What the First Commercial Space Station Means for Humanity
10. From Training to Flight: What can a civilian astronaut expect in space?
11. Harnessing energy from space
12. Social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of civilian space travel
13. Preparing for the Unpredictable: Facilitating Multi-System Resilience in Human Spaceflight
14. Neuroplasticity as a Foundation for Decision-Making in Space
15. Psychophysiology
16. How Pharmaceutical and Biological Discovery in Space Will Advance Medical Applications on Earth and in Space
17. Integrating Research into Commercial Spaceflight
18. Orbital Reef-
19. What is the frontier of biotechnology in low Earth orbit
20. Demonstration: Holographic Sensory Enrichment for Prolonged Spaceflight and Habitation
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443138508
- eBook ISBN: 9780443138515
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Michael Schmidt A
Dr. Schmidt, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sovaris Aerospace, a US company focused on precision medicine applied to humans operating in extreme environments on Earth and in space. His clinical and research work is centered on multi-scale analytics derived from genomics, has three decades of experience working with elite performers in extreme environments including military Special Forces, NFL, NBA, US Olympic athletes, motor sports (24 Hours of Le Mans). He is currently the Chair of the Orbital & Beyond Low Earth Orbit Spaceflight & Habitation Committee for the Advisory Board for the Implementation of the Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and Habitation. He 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.
Affiliations and expertise
CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sovaris Aerospace, USAML
Marianne Legato J
Dr. Marianne Legato, Emerita Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University, is an internationally known academic physician, author, lecturer, and specialist in gender-specific medicine. She is founding member of the International Society for Gender Medicine and the founder and director of The Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University and its next iteration, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. She has published extensively on gender and sex specific medicine, both for the scientific community and for the lay public. She is also the founding editor of the Journal Gender Medicine, and the journal Gender and the Genome. In 1992, Dr. Legato won the American Heart Association’s Blakeslee Award for the best book written for the lay public on cardiovascular disease. The third edition of her textbook, Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine and her most recent book, The Plasticity of Sex., both won Prose awards from the American Association of Editors in 2021 and 2022 respectively. She is a practicing internist in New York City and has been listed each year in New York Magazine and Castle Connolly’s lists "Best Doctors" since their inception in 1993.
Affiliations and expertise
Emerita Professor, Clinical Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Adjunct Professor, Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School