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Future Human Exploration Challenges: An Overview

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Human Space Exploration beyond low Earth orbit could include a return to the moon, exploration of Mars, and stay in cis-lunar space and at Lagrangian points, as well as exploration of asteroids.

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  1. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mark J. Shelhamer

  2. BioScience Research Collaborative, National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), Houston, TX, USA

    Graham B. I. Scott

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Laurence R. Young

  2. Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Jeffrey P. Sutton

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    Graham B. I. Scott

  2. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mark J. Shelhamer

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Shelhamer, M.J., Scott, G.B.I. (2020). Future Human Exploration Challenges: An Overview. In: Young, L.R., Sutton, J.P. (eds) Handbook of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_123-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_123-1

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