›Space Medicine: On Earth and Beyond

Advances in space exploration have led to extended capabilities for longer, further-afield and more accessible space flights. With that come new challenges posed to the human physiology and new responsibilities to ensure crew safety. This lecture will focus on how advances in space medicine have addressed these challenges and the underlying changes to the human body in low-Earth orbit and long-distance space missions. Such advances have become increasingly important for extending human endurance beyond our planet as well as on it...