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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 expanding, unique new trajector… 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 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), develop the field of orbital medicine, guide the development of commercial orbital platforms, plan missions to the Moon and Mars, and 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. Icarus Revisited: Exploring the New Frontier of Space. 21st Century Achievements. 22nd-Century Goals and Challenges
2. Terrestrial Space and Celestial Space in Renaissance Art
3. Space – and the Third Great Age of Discovery
4. What do we think about when we think about settling space? An inclusive perspective
5. Reconfiguring Space in Early Modern Europe
6. Vast is not Infinite: Challenges to Governance and Justice due to Concentrated and Finite Space Resources
7. What is the frontier of mining space resources and the human's role
8. What the First Commercial Space Station Means for Humanity
9. The Human Experience of Conducting Engineering and Construction Operations in Space
10. Humanity and the Orbital Age
11. Space Architecture and the Four Futures of Human Space Flight
12. Human Systems Integration I: Lessons Learned from Exploration on Earth
13. Human Systems Integration II: Lessons Learned from Exploration in the Skies and in Space
14. Risk and systems knowledge in Space
15. Preparing for the Unpredictable: Facilitating Multi-System Resilience in Human Spaceflight
16. Multi-Omic Profiles of SpaceX and Axiom Astronauts and the Cornell Aerospace Biobank
17. Using Functionally Characterized Networks in the Application of Precision Medicine in Space
18. The Astronaut Digital Twin: Accelerating Discovery and Countermeasure Development in the Optimization of Human Space Exploration
19. Lessons Learned Part I: Medical Screening, Standards, and In-flight Medical Incidents, Events, or Risks
20. Lessons Learned Part II: In-flight Medical Equipment, Capabilities, and Countermeasures; and New Medical Paradigms for the Future Flights to LEO and Beyond!
21. Harnessing Neuroplasticity's Features for Civilian Spaceflight through Remediation and Treatment
22. The Critical Imperatives of Behavioral Resiliency in Civilian Space Travelers
23. The Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and Habitation
24. Biotechnology for a Space Faring Civilization - Necessary and Challenging
25. Foundations of a Space Bill of Rights
2. Terrestrial Space and Celestial Space in Renaissance Art
3. Space – and the Third Great Age of Discovery
4. What do we think about when we think about settling space? An inclusive perspective
5. Reconfiguring Space in Early Modern Europe
6. Vast is not Infinite: Challenges to Governance and Justice due to Concentrated and Finite Space Resources
7. What is the frontier of mining space resources and the human's role
8. What the First Commercial Space Station Means for Humanity
9. The Human Experience of Conducting Engineering and Construction Operations in Space
10. Humanity and the Orbital Age
11. Space Architecture and the Four Futures of Human Space Flight
12. Human Systems Integration I: Lessons Learned from Exploration on Earth
13. Human Systems Integration II: Lessons Learned from Exploration in the Skies and in Space
14. Risk and systems knowledge in Space
15. Preparing for the Unpredictable: Facilitating Multi-System Resilience in Human Spaceflight
16. Multi-Omic Profiles of SpaceX and Axiom Astronauts and the Cornell Aerospace Biobank
17. Using Functionally Characterized Networks in the Application of Precision Medicine in Space
18. The Astronaut Digital Twin: Accelerating Discovery and Countermeasure Development in the Optimization of Human Space Exploration
19. Lessons Learned Part I: Medical Screening, Standards, and In-flight Medical Incidents, Events, or Risks
20. Lessons Learned Part II: In-flight Medical Equipment, Capabilities, and Countermeasures; and New Medical Paradigms for the Future Flights to LEO and Beyond!
21. Harnessing Neuroplasticity's Features for Civilian Spaceflight through Remediation and Treatment
22. The Critical Imperatives of Behavioral Resiliency in Civilian Space Travelers
23. The Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and Habitation
24. Biotechnology for a Space Faring Civilization - Necessary and Challenging
25. Foundations of a Space Bill of Rights
- 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. Michael A Schmidt is the CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Sovaris Aerospace. He is a leader in precision medicine applied to humans operating in extreme environments on Earth and in space. Dr. Schmidt has three decades of experience working with elite performers in extreme environments including astronauts, military Special Forces, NFL, NBA, Olympic athletes, military aviators, and others. This includes his early research within NASA’s Human Systems Integration Division. Dr. Schmidt is the President of the Human Research Program for Civilian Spaceflight and is the former President of the Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch (LSBEB) of the Aerospace Medical Association. His molecular work in space is highlighted in a special 2024 issue of Nature entitled, “Space Omics.” His recent innovations include the Astronaut Digital Twin. Dr. Schmidt 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, USA; President, Human Research Program for Civilian SpaceflightML
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