Abstract:The world community continues to move towards exploring the solar system, with exploration of our immediate solar system aimed at establishing intra-planetary colonies, first perhaps on our nearest Earth neighbour Mars. Long haul and intergenerational space flight, with intra-and perhaps extra-planetary colonisation, at the current level of technology, will probably create the need for geriatric space travel.Humans are uniquely adapted to a live, survive and thrive in Earth gravity (1g) of approximately 9.8m 2… Show more
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