Comments on: Carrying Humanity to Mars

By: alisha

alisha — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:35:13 +0000

i love the space ships and i would like ore information about it

By: mohamed hamdy

mohamed hamdy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:29:48 +0000

hello
السلام عليكم
thanks for that and we need to more efforts
i love space and science
mohamed
egypt
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By: Rakesh Bhandari

Rakesh Bhandari — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:14:44 +0000

Hello Dr. Wolpe,

its great to know NASA is already thinking of all these questions , what i feelabout the such missions is that the people who sign up to go have to really agree to the terms and agreement of the missions,

these have to be special events or missions and the crew should eb aware that and agree that the mission should be of most importance, and nothing gets priority over it,
and since mankind is going to spend so many $ on this it cant be aborted if someone is not well or develops a severe illness, the pre mission process should define wht shd be done in these cases and the mission head shpuld be empowered to take decision on their own since they wouldbe too far from the ground control.

if i were to be a crew, i would give in 100% commitment to the mission and its sucess , and i think star trek is a good example and model to follow. wish i could be one of these missions.

Dr. Wolpe, i think we should push ahead and get these missions rolling these, mission will be and will decide the future of humanity.

Rakesh

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:54:47 +0000

there is a propable solution to muscle waist and bone density…if there could be a solution, thus the question arrises…Artificial Gravity..would’nt this solve much of the problems with long distance and time in space?

By: Aaron J. Shileikis

Aaron J. Shileikis — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:22:44 +0000

Hello Dr. Wolpe. I wonder, are astronauts and flight surgeons still justified in their strict interpretation of the Privacy Act of 1974 as that all medical information exchanged between the crew and the flight surgeon remain strictly confidential? I would argue that this interpretation is no longer justified as the both the motivations and limiting factors of the manned spaceflight program are about to change as we engage in exploratory missions. Whereas the equipment and technology were the main concerns in past missions (Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Spacelab, Shuttle and ISS), the Bioastronautics Roadmap clearly shows that the “Human System” is now the limiting factor in the continued exploration of space.

Astronauts and Flight Surgeons may have been justified in respecting astronauts’ autonomy in the past, seeing as the justice served by minimal (and, I assume, perhaps less than optimal) scientifc returns did not outweigh the experience of a well trained (and expensive) astronaut. In other words, medically-oriented safety was clearly a lesser concern in the earlier days of the space program, and thus privacy was justified.

However, in order to overcome the physiological problems inherent to spaceflight NASA now needs to make more astronaut biomedical data available. Clearly, my brief analysis is incomplete, but would you agree that (given more concrete reasoning behind these assertions) that it justifies moving in the direction of decreased privacy regarding in-flight astronaut biomedical data and that the principle of justice now clearly outweighs the principle of autonomy?

Thoughtfully,
~Aaron Shileikis