Space tourism appears to be safe for civilians

A new study has revealed that space tourism and brief trip of weightlessness appears to be safe for most of the ordinary citizens.

The research by James Vanderploeg and colleagues, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, outlined the study that has been done to identify the risks and challenges involved in human commercial spaceflight.

The authors described the development of wearable biomedical monitoring equipment for spaceflight participants and of a medical and physiological database. And they also discussed topics such as the risk of electromagnetic interference and ionizing radiation to implanted medical devices.

Editor-in-Chief of New Space Prof. Scott Hubbard, Stanford University wrote that one of the most important areas of New Space research was to determine whether there are biomedical conditions that would disqualify ordinary citizens from a short ride to the edge of space and this first rigorous, peer-reviewed work on a broad range of volunteers indicated that most people can take the brief trip.

The study is published in the New Space, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.