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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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Correspondence to Graham B. I. Scott .

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  1. Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Apollo Program, 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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  1. BioScience Research Collaborative, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, (NSBRI), Houston, TX, USA

    Graham B. I. Scott Ph.D.

  2. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Mark J. Shelhamer

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Shelhamer, M.J., Scott, G.B.I. (2021). Future Human Exploration Challenges: An Overview. In: Young, L.R., Sutton, J.P. (eds) Handbook of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12191-8_123

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