Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration Spaceflight: Ethics Principles, Responsibilities, and Decision Framework

by Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Ethics Principles and Guidelines for Health Standards for Long Duration and Exploration, Institute of Medicine

Since its inception, the U.S. human spaceflight program has grown from launching a single man into orbit to an ongoing space presence involving numerous crewmembers. As the U.S. space program evolves, propelled in part by increasing international and commercial collaborations, long duration or exploration spaceflights - such as extended stays on the International Space Station or missions to Mars - become more realistic. These types of missions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309296579
• ISBN13: 9780309296571
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"