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Synthetic Torpor as a Strategy for Survivability of Long Duration Human Exploration Missions: The Need for Fundamental Investigations in Rodents

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Synthetic Torpor as a Strategy for Survivability of Long Duration Human Exploration Missions: The Need for Fundamental Investigations in Rodents

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  • Author: Yuri Griko, Viktor Stolc, Ph.D., Luis de Lecea, David J. Loftus.
For the very longest exploration missions to Mars and beyond, the risk of deleterious health effects will probably never be acceptable unless something new comes along to help NASA deal with these problems. The most glaring issue is space radiation. Given the slow pace of development of radiation countermeasures and the difficulty of validating these countermeasures in clinically-relevant settings that are meaningful to NASA, it seems unlikely that risk reduction will be possible any time soon (NCRP 2014).

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