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... Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. Executive Summary "To expand human presence and activity beyond Earth-orbit into the solar system"1 was the goal established by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 for the nation's program of piloted spaceflight.
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... The U.S. scientific and engineering community is obliged to provide the best and most constructive advice to help the nation accomplish its space goals, as was stressed in a 1988 space policy report to the newly elected president by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.4 To that end the National Research Council's Space Studies Board established the Committee on Human Exploration (CHEX)
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... Critical Research Issues The lack of scientific data in some areas leads to unacceptably high risks to any program of extended space exploration by humans. These critical research issues concern those areas that have the highest probability of being life threatening or seriously debilitating to astronauts and that are thus potential "showstoppers" for human exploration.
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... They could, however, result in reduced human performance in flight or on planetary surfaces and, thus, in a less than optimal return from the mission. Some of these issues may become critical research issues relative to long-term human spaceflight and return to terrestrial gravity following extended flights, or when extraterrestrial habitation is considered.
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... Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1991. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences.
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