Astronauts on missions to the moon will need training to avoid medical emergencies that would require evacuation Merlin74/Shutterstock
One in three missions to the moon is at risk of requiring an astronaut to be medically evacuated back to Earth. This process would be difficult and costly – a medical emergency in space is an altogether tougher situation than one on Earth – but a new tool to calculate the probability of such crises could help us prevent them.
Generally, major space agencies like NASA reduce the risk of medical…
