Towards Human Exploration of Space:a EUropean Strategy - Roadmap
2012
Past space missions in low Earth orbit have demonstrated that human beings can survive and work in space
for long durations. However, there are pending technological, medical and psychological issues that must be
solved before adventuring into longer-duration space missions (e.g. protection against ionizing radiation,
psychological issues, behaviour and performance, prevention of bone loss, etc.). Furthermore, technological
breakthroughs, e.g. in life support systems and recycling technologies, are required to reduce the cost of future
expeditions to acceptable levels. Solving these issues will require scientific and technological breakthroughs in
clinical and industrial applications, many of which will have relevance to health issues on Earth as well.
Despite existing ESA and NASA studies or roadmaps, Europe still lacks a roadmap for human exploration of
space approved by the European scientific and industrial communities. The objective of THESEUS is to develop
an integrated life sciences research roadmap enabling European human space exploration in synergy with the
ESA strategy, taking advantage of the expertise available in Europe and identifying the potential of non-space
applications and dual research and development.
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