Human Spaceflight
ASCEND is committed to collaborating on Human Spaceflight to explore the future of humanity in space.
HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT
Human presence in space demands solutions to some of the most complex engineering, medical, and operational challenges of our time. As missions extend beyond low Earth orbit to the moon, Mars, and beyond, ensuring crew health, safety, and performance — and the systems that sustain them — is paramount.
ASCEND explores the technologies, systems, and research enabling safe and effective human spaceflight, including:
- Behavioral health in space
- Human health, performance, and countermeasures
- Human systems integration
- Human-machine teaming
- Life support and bioregenerative systems
- Rescue and emergency operations
- Spacesuits and EVA
- And much more
Join the engineers, researchers, medical experts, and mission architects, managers and more preparing crews to live, work, and thrive farther from Earth than ever before.
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Building our sustainable off-world future through collaboration.
ASCEND connects the civil, commercial, and national security space sectors along with adjacent industries, to embrace the opportunities and address the challenges that come with increased activity in space.
Building our sustainable off-world future requires long-term thinking. Strategic planning, innovation, scientific exploration, and effective regulations and standards will help us preserve space for future generations. ASCEND enables the technical exchanges, debates, and collaboration that will help forge a sustainable off world future for all.
