The team will acquire new knowledge on health risks associated with the spaceflight environment. Tracking that interaction will reveal changes caused by weightlessness in space, which could help ensure astronaut health and fitness.ĭr. They will investigate how the cardiovascular and respiratory systems interact with the blood pressure control system, using measurements taken by the Bio-Monitor. The team will observe astronauts as they exercise before, during and after spaceflight. With this technology available onboard the Station, the Canadian Space Agency ( CSA) is funding two new Canadian studies to help mitigate health risks for future space travellers and contribute to the well-being of people on Earth. It was designed to help keep an eye on astronauts' health by continuously monitoring and recording their vital signs while they are in space. The Bio-Monitor is a wearable Canadian technology that consists of a smart shirt, a head band and a dedicated tablet application.
But the space station, as these photos show, is definitely worth flying as long as it remains capable of doing so.As we celebrate 20 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station ( ISS), Canada's space science community is pursuing its mission to improve the life of humans, on Earth and in space, with new research aboard the orbiting laboratory. The United States must still forge agreements with its international partners to keep the station flying for this decade, and there may be some heavy lifting to bring Russia along. Recently, at the urging of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, the Biden White House agreed to extend the space station to 2030. The space station, therefore, offers humanity a pathway toward cooperation and sustainability in spaceflight. Hundreds of people have now lived on the station, providing biological information that will inform future spacecraft and exploration missions. With its pioneering experiments on human health and microgravity, too, the space station is providing a template for understanding how humans can live and work and thrive in space for months or even years.
But in this century they have worked together and contributed money and hardware toward the construction of something greater than each nation could have made on its own. Many of these countries warred in the 20th century. It has brought together the United States and Russia in space, as well as a host of other European nations alongside Japan and Canada. In many ways, the International Space Station offers a hopeful vision for what our future in space could hold. NASA's Johnson Space Center recently posted the photos on its Flickr page. Most recently, the Crew 2 mission led by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough undocked from the space station on November 8, and the crew was able to capture multiple views of the space station. But thanks to the emergence of SpaceX's Crew Dragon vehicle, astronauts have started circumnavigating the station once again after undocking and before heading home. For more than 20 years, these harsh conditions have worn on the station, inducing stress fractures and other damage.įollowing the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA lost the ability to fly humans around the station to catalog these changes with highly detailed photographs. Over this time the station has begun to show its age, being exposed to the extreme hot and cold temperatures of space, a vacuum environment, and micrometeoroid debris.
And while primary construction of the orbiting laboratory ended a little more than a decade ago, before the retirement of NASA's space shuttle, the station has continued to evolve with smaller modules and an ever-changing array of visiting spacecraft. The International Space Station is now more than two decades old.
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