宇宙航空環境医学 Vol. 60, No. 1, 15, 2023

Commercialization of LEO:Unleashing the Potential of Aerospace Medicine

Dorit Donoviel

Translational Research Institute for Space Health, Baylor College of Medicine

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health（TRISH）at Baylor College of Medicine established the first-of-its-kind research platform to study humanhealth and performance in private space flight participants in 2021. Working with commercial space flight providers and their passengers, TRISH’sEXPAND（EnhancingeXplorationPlatformsandAnalogDefinition）Program collectspre-, in-, and post-flight health data from multiple commercial space flight sand data is housed it in a centralized research database.
　EXPAND research addressesawiderange of challenges that humans face on long duration space missions:early detection and treatment of medical conditions, protection from radiation effects, mental health, team dynamics and more.TRISH pioneered a way to combine the studies of multiple researchers to streamline the process for space flight participants.
　The first commercial space flight carrying TRISHEXPAND health research was the three-day long Inspiration 4 mission that launchedon Sept. 16, 2021.
　In addition to new experiments, TRISH’s goal is to provide a state-of-the-art integrated medical and environmental research knowledge bank as well as a repository for biological samples. EXPAND captures research, medical data and biospecimens from all volunteering commercial spaceflight participants.　TRISH selected Trial X to build the centralized database.