Medicine for astronauts might expire before the first mission to Mars concludes
We want to boldly go where humanity has never gone before: Mars. A manned mission to the red planet will happen once we've gone back to the Moon via NASA's Artemis project. To make it happen, we'll have to fix a few key issues to ensure astronauts can live in space as comfortably as possible for longer periods than ever before.
It's not just about developing the spaceships that will get us to Mars, growing food in space, figuring out how to wash clothes, or possibly drinking recycled urine while on spacewalks. It's also about ensuring astronauts have access to critical life support systems, including medicines that can treat all sorts of medical conditions humans tend to encounter.
Getting drugs to the International Space Station or even a base on the Moon is manageable. While far from Earth, they can be resupplied before the medicine that astronauts have on hand expires. But a mission to Mars would probably take about 36 months. Most of the drugs the astronauts will take with them will expire before that.
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