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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 618-626Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.054
Keywords
Torpor; Hypometabolism; Storage fat; Human space exploration; Mission design
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- European Space Agency (ESA)
- SciSpaceE programme
- ESA [4000117771/16]
- German Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi ) [50WB1622, 1931]
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Long-duration space missions to Mars will create extreme physical and psychological stress on the crew, as well as logistical and technical challenges. ESA's study has shown that biological hibernation can reduce crew metabolism and stress, but will require monitoring and AI assistance.
Long-duration space missions to Mars will impose extreme stresses of physical and psychological nature on the crew, as well as significant logistical and technical challenges for life support and transportation. Main challenges include optimising overall mass and maintaining crew physical and mental health. These key scopes have been taken up as the baseline for a study by the European Space Agency (ESA) using its Concurrent Design Facility (CDF). It focussed on the biology of hibernation in reducing metabolism and hence stress, and its links to the infrastructure and life support. We concluded that torpor of crew members can reduce the payload with respect to oxygen, food and water but will require monitoring and artificial intelligence (AI) assisted monitoring of the crew. These studies additionally offer new potential applications for patient care on Earth. Keywords: Space flight, concurrent design facility, metabolic reduction
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