Space medicine relates to promoting human health, preventing illness, diagnosing illness, and to treating illness in space. An important part of this is the manufacture and provision of medicines in space. - **Keeps us healthy** - Inadequate nutrition and food (see [[Space Food Old]]) - Different and new conditions (see [[Isolation and confinement]] and [[Gravity fields]]) - Unknown accidents / conditions - **Prevents infections or illness** - [[Space Health Hazards]] - **Treats illness or injuries ** - Space doctors - Space Healthcare Equipment - Resources - Costs ~1.3m dollars to launch a 1 kg of materials to Mars - in situ resource utilisation - focuses on using materials found on the surfaces of the moon and on mars and utilising it for agriculture, building, manufacturing, etc. - Launching resources from Earth to do with - **Manufacturing medicines** - [[Space 3D Printing]] to make medicine **Pregnancy and Early Life** - Is it possible to give birth on space? - What are the impacts of space life on pregnancy? - What are the potential ramifications of bringing up children in space? #pn #wip Sources [https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace](https://www.nasa.gov/hrp/bodyinspace)