Are We Ready For Mars What Do The Engineers Think From Mark Shelhamer

Biomedical engineer and human spaceflight expert Mark Shelhamer guides readers through—and beyond—the available datato the research and planning that’s underway for deep space voyages, showing how medicine, engineering, mission operations,and artificial intelligence must be integrated to make these explorations successful. A voyage to Mars is our next step in exploring the universe. For the astronauts brave enough to venture 35 million miles from home and into such an extreme environment, the journey will be the ultimate test of endurance—of their bodies and minds, and the materials and technologies developed to protect them. Many of the risks they’ll face, both physical and psychological, remain unknown or understudied; mitigating the dangers—especially when no rescue or resupply missions will be possible—is a challenge that’s equally as demanding, and fascinating, as designing the rockets and landers that will ferry them. Are We Ready for Mars? offers a rare look at what it will truly take to safely reach this storied planet—and how those efforts might then transform the ways we approach human health here on Earth. Shelhamer argues that the traditional, siloed approaches to human health that got us to the Moon and have kept us safely aboard the International Space Station will no longer be enough. What Mars will demand instead is intense resilience—of the crews’ stamina and risk management skills, and of the spaceship’s integrated ecosystem—to support the mission goals, provide comfort, and cope with crises.

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