Fathi Karouia

Jun 11, 2024 | nature.com | Christopher Mason |James Green |Jordan Baechle |Mathias Basner |Susan Bailey |Joseph Borg | +34 more

AbstractThe recent acceleration of commercial, private and multi-national spaceflight has created an unprecedented level of activity in low Earth orbit, concomitant with the largest-ever number of crewed missions entering space and preparations for exploration-class (lasting longer than one year) missions. Such rapid advancement into space from many new companies, countries and space-related entities has enabled a ‘second space age’.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Keith Siew |Charlotte Nelson |Alessandra Grillo |Eliah G. Overbey |JangKeun Kim |Sanghee Yun | +41 more

AbstractMissions into Deep Space are planned this decade. Yet the health consequences of exposure to microgravity and galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) over years-long missions on indispensable visceral organs such as the kidney are largely unexplored.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Jean Calleja-Agius |Joseph Borg |JangKeun Kim |Caroline Coffey |Nathaniel J. Szewczyk |Christopher Mason | +5 more

AbstractMounting ambitions and capabilities for public and private, non-government sector crewed space exploration bring with them an increasingly diverse set of space travelers, raising new and nontrivial ethical, legal, and medical policy and practice concerns which are still relatively underexplored.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Keith Siew |Charlotte Nelson |Alessandra Grillo |Eliah G. Overbey |JangKeun Kim |Sanghee Yun | +41 more

AbstractMissions into Deep Space are planned this decade. Yet the health consequences of exposure to microgravity and galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) over years-long missions on indispensable visceral organs such as the kidney are largely unexplored.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Begum Mathyk |Alexander Quaas |Fathi Karouia |Nicolas Nelson |Ozlem Guzeloglu-Kayisli |Lauren Sanders | +12 more

AbstractAs the space industry grows exponentially and aspirations for space travel expand, we are entering a new era where we will very likely become an interplanetary species. Although reproduction is an essential human function and necessary for species survival, we have remarkably little knowledge regarding the impact of space travel on the female reproductive system.