Recommendation for a Medical System Concept of Operations for Gateway Missions

NASAs exploration missions to cis-lunar space will establish a permanent gateway to future transport missions to Mars. These missions mandate a significant paradigm change for mission planning, spacecraft design, human systems integration, and in-flight medical care due to constraints on mass, volume, power, resupply, and medical evacuation capability. These constraints require medical system development to be tightly integrated with mission and habitat design to provide a sufficient medical infrastructure and enable mission success. This concept of operations provides a vision of medical care needs that will be used to guide the development of a medical system for the cis-lunar Gateway Habitat. This medical system will serve as the precursor to what is implemented in future exploration missions to Mars. This concept of operations documents an overview of the stakeholder needs and system goals of a medical system and provides examples of the types of activities for which the system will be used during the mission. This concept of operations informs the ExMC systems engineering effort to define the Gateway Habitat Medical System by documenting the medical activities and capabilities relevant to Gateway missions, as identified by the ExMC clinician community. In addition, this concept of operations will inform the subsequent systems engineering process of developing technical requirements, system architectures, interfaces, and verification and validation approaches for the medical system. This document supports the closure of ExMC Gap Med01: We do not have a concept of operations for medical care during exploration missions, corresponding to the ExMC-managed human system risk: Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes & Decrements in Performance due to Inflight Medical Conditions

Medical System Concept of Operations for Mars Exploration Mission-11: Exploration Medical Capability (ExMC) Element - Human Research Program

NASAs exploration missions to Mars will have durations of 2-3 years and will take humans farther away from Earth than ever before. This will result in a paradigm shift for mission planning, spacecraft design, human systems integration, and in-flight medical care. Constraints on real-time communication, resupply, and medical evacuation are major architectural drivers. These constraints require medical system development to be tightly integrated with mission and vehicle design to provide crew autonomy and enable mission success. This concept of operations provides a common vision of medical care for developing a medical system for Mars exploration missions. It documents an overview of the stakeholder needs and goals of a medical system and provides examples of the types of activities the system will be used for during the mission. Development of the concept of operations considers mission variables such as distance from Earth, duration of mission, time to definitive medical care, communication protocols between crewmembers and ground support, personnel capabilities and skill sets, medical hardware and software, and medical data management. The information provided in this document informs the ExMC Systems Engineering effort to define the functions to be provided by the medical system. In addition, this concept of operations will inform the subsequent systems engineering process of developing technical requirements, system architectures, interfaces, and verification and validation approaches for the medical system. This document supports the closure of ExMC Gap Med01: We do not have a concept of operations for medical care during exploration missions, corresponding to the ExMC-managed human system risk: Risk of Adverse Health Outcomes & Decrements in Performance due to Inflight Medical Conditions. This document is applicable to the ExMC Element Systems Engineering process and may be used for collaboration within the Human Research Program

IMPACT Concept of Operations

NASAs future exploration missions mandate a significant paradigm change for mission planning, spacecraft design, human systems integration, and in-flight medical care due to constraints on mass, volume, power, resupply missions, and medical evacuation capabilities. These constraints require further development of the human health and performance system, which includes the medical, task performance, wellness, data, human and other systems necessary to keep the crew healthy and functioning optimally. The human health and performance system will be tightly integrated with mission and habitat design to provide a sufficient human health and performance infrastructure to enable mission success. A suite of systems engineering tools will aid in the decision making process for the development of such a human health and performance system. This Concept of Operations provides a vision for a tool suite to conduct evaluations of human health and performance system options, inform research prioritization, and provide trade study support, based on evidence, risks, and systems engineering principles. The integrated tool suite under development is IMPACT

Political Competency: Understanding How College Students Develop Their Political Identity

Constructing models of how students come to understand their identity is a hallmark of student development theory. Yet, there is little published research or institutional attention devoted to the examination of students’ political identity development. In this article, the authors apply existing student development theories to this topic and describe ways that student affairs practitioners can facilitate student growth in this important dimension of adulthood

Prospectus, September 12, 2019

PARKLAND REMOVES PRAIRIE PLOT; Opinion: Trump offends Denmark; Student Life hosts Leadership Summit; Perimeter Road: Setting the bar high; Parkland hosts health clinics at Wellness Center; Plants picked: new plot pending; Trump offends Denmark after cancelling state visit; Leadership Summit inspire students to succeed; Perimeter Road is taking over the music scene with their art.; Cobra Sportshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2019/1040/thumbnail.jp

Surrogacy: Pathway to Parenthood

Assistive reproductive technology has progressed significantly over the past few decades. In spite of the advances, people may still resort to a surrogate for bearing and birthing a baby. Surrogacy, though an altruistic act, has been commercialized in the past few years, leading to emergence of several ethico-legal concerns. Nurses care for the surrogates, the infants, and the intended parents through their journey with sensitivity, advocacy, compassion, and confidentiality. This article intends to explore the implications of surrogacy to individuals, families, nations, and health care

Prospectus, August 22, 2019

HUMANS OF PARKLAND: OFFICER SAM; Advice for New Students; Mental Health Resource on Campus; Visit the Wesley Food Pantry; Finding Home; Welcome to Parkland; Verdun, Kristensen Parkland Athletes of the Year; Parkland Honors Witruk, Norton With Scholar Athlete Award; Parkland Volleyball: Ryleigh Warfel Named AVCA Player to Watchhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2019/1037/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, September 26, 2019

BOARD APPROVES DR. LAU AS NEXT PRESIDENT OF PARKLAND; UIUC and Parkland students march for climate change; Parkland College upholds the Clery Act; No more coal, no more oil, keep that carbon in the soil! ; Parkland\u27s Daily Crime Log is public information; Opinion: Cost of college then and now; Parkland Volleyball’s Brooke Norder picks up NJCAA honor; Number one Cobra\u27s Volleyball wins eighth straighthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_2019/1042/thumbnail.jp