Sufficient sleep duration and good sleep quality are crucial to ensure normal physical and
mental health, cognition and work performance for the common people, as well as …

Ground-based rodent models have established that space radiation doses (approximately
those that astronauts will be exposed to on a mission to Mars) significantly impair …

The recently renewed focus on the human exploration of outer space has boosted the
interest toward a variety of questions regarding health of astronauts and cosmonauts …

Astronauts on deep space missions will be required to work autonomously and thus their
ability to perform executive functions could be critical to mission success. Ground-based …

Abstract When the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine was awareded in 2017 to Jeffrey C.
Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young, the new era of chronobiology and medicine …

The circadian clock is an endogenous time-generating system accountable for the
synchrony between the internal and the geophysical time. In recent years, chronobiology …

In April 2010, President Obama declared a space pioneering goal for the United States in
general and NASA in particular." Fifty years after the creation of NASA, our goal is no longer …

The NASA commitment to human space flight includes continuing to fly astronauts on the
ISS until it is decommissioned as well as possibly returning astronauts to the moon or having …

The type, quality, and quantity of psychological support can have a significant, positive
impact on those living and working in extreme environments. Using the programs in the …

This document is based on many sources of information, including the nutritional
requirements defined in 1991 for Space Station Freedom missions (2, 4), the updated set of …