التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
MEDICAL CERTIFICATION OF A MIXED COMMERCIAL CREW FOR SPACEFLIGHT, FROM SELECTION TO FLIGHT. |
| المؤلفون: |
Marshall, John, Hong, Michelle, Powers, Williiam |
| المصدر: |
Aerospace Medicine & Human Performance; Aug2024, Vol. 95 Issue 8, p498-499, 2p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ASTRONAUTS, ULTRA high net worth individuals, SPACE flight |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
SAUDI Arabia |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
UNITED States. National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
| مستخلص: |
BACKGROUND: The Axiom-1 (Ax-1) crew was comprised of three "Ultra High Net Worth Individuals" (UHNWI) and one veteran, Axiom employed astronaut. This mission demonstrated the successful medical certification of self-selected individuals that ultimately executed a successful mission of outreach and science. The Axiom-2 (Ax-2) mission again demonstrated a successful science and outreach mission but with a dramatically different crew contingent and medical selection process. OVERVIEW: In mid-2023, Axiom Space, Inc. launched Ax-2, its second mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The selected crew was especially diverse, comprised of one UHNWI, two government employed astronauts from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)-one of civilian and the other of military background-and one veteran, Axiom employed astronaut. The crew selection methods were also diverse. In contrast to Ax-1, the Ax-2 crew selection mixed UHNWI self-selection with an Axiom led selection campaign executed in cooperation with the KSA's then Saudi Space Commission (SSC). Axiom then undertook the final medical certification process of all Ax-2 crewmembers for risk acceptance by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Multilateral Space Medicine Board (MSMB). In doing so, Axiom combined and applied known medical standards, aerospace medicine physician training and experience, and targeted medical consultant knowledge to assess astronaut medical and mission risk and safely certify a multitude of medical comorbidities. DISCUSSION: The Ax-2 mission represents a number of operational firsts, the most significant of which involves the first time a commercial space entity has led large scale medical selection efforts with a foreign government to select foreign government astronauts. In doing so, Axiom successfully collaborated with multiple government agencies to risk assess both career and non-career and government and private astronauts under one mission umbrella. These efforts required Axiom to establish a selection process that accommodated widely different customer backgrounds and mission goals in the face of diverse astronaut demographics. Learning Objectives 1. The audience will understand the complexities of medically certifying commercial, private astronaut crewmembers for missions to the International Space Station. 2. The audience will understand the role that Axiom Space plays in advising burgeoning space agencies on the medical selection process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |
