What Are The Medical Safety Needs Of Civilian Space Travel?
Wednesday, January 14, 2015 - 20:50
in Mathematics & Economics
In space no one can hear you bleed, but what about on a private spacecraft? The commercial aviation industry has medical care standards, as does NASA for traditional space missions. Eventually someone is going to tell Elon Musk and Richard Brandon that the commercial space transportation industry will need to define medical care practices as well. There are well-known risks, of course, but there can be disclaimers 400 pages long and if an attorney stands in front of a jury and talks about what lax safety standards there are, someone with the passionate pleading skill of John Edwards will get a judgment that runs their companies into bankruptcy. read more