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Space engineers helped design heart pumps now used to keep people in need of heart transplant alive until a donor heart becomes available. [28] Discoveries concerning the human body and space, particularly the effects on the development of bones, may provide further understanding of biomineralization and the process of gene transcription. [29]
Since the early 1990s, research began on the salutogenic (or growth-enhancing) aspects of space travel. One study analyzed the published memoirs of 125 space travelers. [29] After returning from space, the subjects reported higher levels on categories of Universalism (i.e., greater appreciation for other people and nature), Spirituality, and Power.
Aldrin held that reusable spacecraft were the key in making space travel affordable, stating that the use of "passenger space travel is a huge potential market big enough to justify the creation of reusable launch vehicles". [76] Space tourism is a next step in the use of reusable vehicles in the commercialization of space.
Eventually, White wrote about the effect in his book The Overview Effect — Space Exploration and Human Evolution (1987), [13] which has a fourth edition (2021). [11] White's work did not attain broad influence until the 2010s—a period of increased societal divisions and a new prospect of private space travel. [14]
Space travel also happens to be a great business opportunity. Helping power Europa Clipper into space was a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Elon Musk's company has won plenty of government contracts ...
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void is a nonfiction work by science author Mary Roach.. Published in August 2010, Packing for Mars was recognized in "Amazon's Best Books" of that month, it quickly became a #6 New York Times bestseller, [1] and it was chosen as the book of the year for the 7th annual One City One Book: San Francisco Reads literary event program.
The Complete Book of Outer Space is a 1953 collection of essays about space exploration edited by Jeffrey Logan. It first appeared as a magazine, published by Maco Magazine Corp. The first book publication was by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 3,000 copies.
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