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Clinical articles (1)

Medical standards overview

What NASA's crew health standard actually requires, how astronauts are medically selected and recertified, and what that means for a clinician who sees space travelers.

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Equipment guides (1)

SMF-E-0002 · reference · draft

What medical equipment, drugs and supplies are carried on suborbital flights, short commercial orbital flights, a low Earth orbit station, lunar and Gateway missions, and Mars-class missions, and how distance, duration, drug shelf life and the loss of evacuation change the kit.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F C E

Research pages (9)

RES-00 · guide · draft

How evidence works

Why space medicine evidence is thin, what analogs and models can and can't tell us, how NASA rates risk, and how to read SMF's certainty grades.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F A M C E

RES-02 · studies · draft

Landmark studies

The studies that shaped what we know: the NASA Twins Study, the Inspiration4/SOMA package, ISS long-duration cohorts and bed-rest research.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F A

RES-03 · analogs · draft

Earth analogs

Bed rest, Antarctica, HI-SEAS, NEEMO, Mars-500, HERA, CHAPEA and parabolic flight. What each models well, and what it misses.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · A E

RES-04 · data directory · draft

Datasets & resources

Where to find space medicine data: NASA LSDA and LSAH (via the Life Sciences Portal), OSDR/GeneLab, ESA HREDA, the SOMA portal, and NASA's evidence and task records.

◆◆◆◆ High · E

RES-05 · open questions · draft

Open questions

The biggest unknowns, in plain language, each linked to NASA's official knowledge gaps and the matching Risk & Gap Atlas page.

◆◆◆◆ High · E

STU-01 · landmark study · draft

NASA Twins Study

One identical twin spent a year on the ISS while his brother stayed on Earth as a genetic control. Most changes reversed within six months, but some did not.

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STU-02 · landmark study · draft

Inspiration4 & SOMA

The 2024 Nature package on the first all-civilian orbital crew. It found that most changes from a 3-day flight reversed, and it launched an open atlas of astronaut biology.

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STU-03 · landmark study · draft

ISS long-duration cohorts

Most of what clinicians know about 6-month spaceflight comes from cohorts of 4 to 46 ISS astronauts. Key studies, what they found, and their limits.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F

STU-04 · landmark study · draft

Bed-rest studies

Lying in bed tilted 6° head-down for weeks reproduces many effects of weightlessness. It is the workhorse for testing countermeasures, with important blind spots.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · A