DEFINITION:

HHP technologies is to maintain the health of the crew and support optimal and sustained performance throughout the duration of a mission.

Note: It is related with ESA’s TD 22-A

(Source: NASA TA6.3)

SUBDOMAINS:

1. Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis: This functional area provides a suite of medical technologies, knowledge, and procedures that minimize the likelihood and consequence of off-nominal medical events during exploration missions. Efforts are also focused on developing novel screening, diagnosis, and treatment technologies for conditions that drive medical risk, as well as developing the appropriate infrastructure to match the level of care required for exploration Design Reference Missions (DRMs).
2. Long-Duration Health: This area focuses on providing validated technologies for medical practice to address the effects of the space environment on human systems and countermeasures to maintain crew physical health, behavioral health, and sustained performance on extended-duration missions.
3. Behavioral Health: The objective in this area is to provide countermeasures and conduct monitoring to reduce the psychosocial, neurobehavioral, and performance risk associated with extended space travel and return to Earth. Technology advancements are needed to identify, characterize, and prevent or reduce risks associated with space travel, exploration, and return to terrestrial life on astronauts’ behavioral health and performance.
4. Human Factors: This area focuses on technologies that support the crew’s ability to effectively, reliably, and safely interact within mission environments. Elements include physical accommodation, fit, ergonomics of crew hardware interfaces, physical and cognitive augmentation, training, and Human-Systems Integration (HSI) tools, metrics, methods, and standards.