Spaceflight 🚀Where to book and what else to consider for your private #spaceflight 🚀 https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Space
#SpaceStations will be occupied by civilians as #tourists and employees. A “learning period” gives the industry considerable leeway to #experiment with humans 👨🚀. We need health ⚕️ #research now to protect future civilians in #space 🌌 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/health-research-is-needed-now-before-sending-civilians-to-space/
National Library of Medicine ⚕️ "As the scope of human #spaceflight expands, the risk ☣️ to space #travelers expands as well" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10485075/
Updates to the NASA human system risk management process for space exploration
This paper describes updates to NASA’s approach for assessing and mitigating spaceflight-induced risks to human health and performance. This approach continues to evolve to meet dynamically changing risk environments: lunar missions are currently ...
The team found that 91 per cent 📊 of genes were affected, with many switching on and off at the wrong time of day. “#SpaceTravel was once thought to be unachievable; however, the growth of the #SpaceIndustry means it is now a real possibility. In addition, new plans are in place for #UK 🇬🇧 #astronauts 👨🚀 going to the #ISS in 📆 2025 via the UK #SpaceAgency #Axiom programme.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/18/jetlag-astronauts-travel-space-lag/
"The inflatable 🎈 structures are not as fragile as they might seem. They are constructed of a fabric similar to the Kevlar material used in bulletproof vests, and their multiple layers offer a good degree of #radiation ☢️ protection. There are plans to use them to build small hotels for #SpaceTourists." https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-03-06/nasas-plans-for-the-end-of-the-iss-private-space-stations-and-hotels-with-an-earth-view.html
🇨🇳 #CAS Space said that its vehicle will include a tourist cabin that has four panoramic windows and can carry seven passengers per flight. The company plans to arrange a launch 🚀 every 100 hours from a newly-built aerospace theme park, with ten vehicles available to take tourists to the edge of space 🌌 in shifts.
Tickets will cost $415,127 💵 per person per trip https://www.reuters.com/science/chinese-state-backed-company-launch-space-tourism-flights-by-2028-2024-05-17/
#Politico 📆 11/02/2022 : Don’t count on being #rescued — by #NASA or the #SpaceForce, or even the company that built your private #spaceship.
#Seafaring ⛵ explorers traditionally sailed with #additional #ships, #Apollo missions included #redundant capsules that proved crucial in #saving the #Apollo13 astronauts. #Skylab had #rescue #rockets and #spacecraft on #standby for in-#orbit #emergencies https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/02/space-rescue-service-astronauts-00064633
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> A first step, it said, is ensuring all crewed spacecraft have common docking mechanisms so they can rendezvous in an emergency.
A lot of them already use IDSS / NDS, but wikipedia claims[1] that the ones on Dragon 2 and Starliner are active-only. If that's true, that'd be a problem during a rescue mission
Also, I don't understand why someone would install an active-only APAS derivative... is it that much cheaper than a dual-mode passive/active one?
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Docking_System_Standard
The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️@rebelrebel62 On April 29, 2002, #NASA announced that it was cancelling the CRV and X-38 programs, due to budget pressures associated with other elements of the #ISS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Return_Vehicle#Cancellation
@spaceflight Maybe it’s a use case for Dream Chaser?
@rebelrebel62 for any more reliable vehicle than Starliner 🙄, but it needs to be ready to launch
@rebelrebel62 last year #NASA "asked #SpaceX a few questions on their capability to return additional crew members on Dragon if necessary, but that is not our prime focus at this time" https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/nasa-mulls-spacex-backup-plan-crew-russias-leaky-soyuz-ship-2022-12-28/
NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia's leaky Soyuz ship
NASA is exploring whether SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Station after a Russian capsule sprang a coolant leak while docked to the orbital lab.
The #ISS isolated strains were mutated and became genetically and functionally distinct compared to their #Earth counterparts. The strains were able to viably persist in the ISS over time with a significant abundance. E. bugandensis coexisted with multiple other #microorganisms 🦠, and in some cases could have helped those organisms survive. https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/ames-science/ames-space-biosciences/multi-drug-resistant-bacteria-found-on-iss-mutating-to-become-functionally-distinct/
New #biological insights allowed to engineer phages with far superior activity against drug-resistant pathogens back on Earth. #SpaceStation phages gradually accumulated specific mutations that boosted their infectivity, or their ability to bind receptors on #bacterial 🦠 cells https://www.independent.co.uk/space/virus-bacteria-international-space-station-phages-strong-b2900199.html
During a large #solar ☀️ energetic particle event, the #radiation ☢️ dosage an #astronaut 👨🚀 receives inside a #SpaceSuit could exceed 1,000 times 📈 the dosage someone on #Earth receives. That would exceed an astronaut’s recommended lifetime limit by 10 times. Once a forecaster detects 🔭 a #SolarFlare or #CME, the high-energy particles usually arrive to Earth in less than an hour ⏱️. But astronauts on the #Moon’s 🌙 surface would need more time than that to seek shelter. https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/space-weather-forecasting-needs-an-upgrade-to-protect-future-artemis-astronauts/
"No #astronauts 👨🚀 have ever viewed Earth from the vantage point of a polar orbit. Such orbits are favored by commercial photo-reconnaissance satellites 🛰️ because they fly over the entire planet as it rotates beneath them." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-to-launch-bitcoin-entrepreneur-and-three-crewmates-on-flight-around-earths-poles/
Maybe they see more than the #HiRes cams with their 👓 ❓🤔
SpaceX to launch bitcoin entrepreneur and three crewmates on flight around Earth's poles
The historic, privately financed space flight will carry humans above Earth's ice caps for the first time.
The fatality rate of people traveling in space is about 3%. That sounds low, but it's higher than extreme sports. Since 📆 1930, improvements in technology 🔧 and safety features have lowered the number of fatal 💀 accidents in the #aviation industry per million miles flown by a factor of 3,000 〽️ https://phys.org/news/2024-09-space-spacex-polaris-dawn-mission.html
Space travel comes with risk—SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission will push the envelope further than ever
Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can't survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes. Getting to space involves being strapped to a barely contained chemical explosion.
Bernd@spaceflight the current target rate for fatal accidents for human space flights is 1 in 270, which is an order of magnitude lower than 3%, but sitll ridiculously high compared to other means of transport. Starliner wouldn't even meet that modest goal.
@hopfgeist with its “darn near-flawless” performance ? 🤔 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/boeings-starliner-crew-mission-returns-to-earth-but-its-astronauts-are-still/
