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Extreme Environment Analogs Assessment Program (EEAAP)

OCHMO’s Extreme Environment Analogs Assessment Program (EEAAP) seeks to advance operationally relevant research to provide countermeasures and improve standards for Artemis and other missions of human exploration.

Meet OCHMO’s Lead for EEAAP about Extreme Environment Analogs Assessment Program (EEAAP)

A range of activity is needed to address challenges of radiation, microgravity, isolation and confinement, and distance from Earth. Avoidance, prevention, and treatment are the preventive medicine paradigm. From human-centric design solutions and pre-mission training specific to exploration mission challenges to in-mission diagnostics and mitigations for crew health and performance, and psychological support and medical treatments, specific research is needed to ethically address space mission challenges in the short and long term. A range of analog environments, activities, and analysis support research efforts. Research data is collected from fully controlled laboratory settings to uncontrolled extreme environments with people actively engaging in their regular, real-time work.  Analog environments, missions, and activities play a significant role in problem-solving for spaceflight research.

The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 21
The NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 21 mission began on July 21, 2016, as an international crew of aquanauts splashed down to the undersea Aquarius Reef Base, 62 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. The NEEMO 21 crew will research inside and outside the habitat during a 16-day simulated space mission.
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A participant in the current ESA-NASA bedrest study
A participant in the current ESA-NASA bedrest study at the German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) :envihab facility in Cologne, Germany.
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The aurora australis and the Milky Way fill the long winter night sky over the South Pole Telescope
The aurora australis and the Milky Way fill the long winter night sky over the South Pole Telescope. Dr. John Carlstrom, University of Chicago, leads the team researching the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation at the South Pole. Their goal is to detect all galaxy clusters in this region of the sky through the distortion they can see on the CMB. The South Pole is an ideal location for telescopes with months of darkness, a constant view of the same sky, and extremely low humidity in the air. On the lower left corner of this photo, Jupiter is visible as a bright spot.
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