Dr. Farhan Asrar

let's say, continue with the mission itself without causing any harms or challenges to the astronaut themselves.

However, if there is a risk of we don't know what could happen, could they possibly worsen?

Or even from a medical side of view, we would say that, oh, there is a risk of something going wrong.

That's when we would be like, we need to evacuate immediately.

And it varies because even with the medical evacuation, if there was an immediate emergency, we could have brought that astronaut back in a matter of hours.

Well, there are actually all kinds of contingencies already that have been planned out, again, as a whole.

And then when a mission does take place, they kind of look at the specifics of that mission itself.

So in those plans, there are actually situations where how do you address with a medical emergency?

It's basically even looking at how do you address with, let's say, palliative care situations where there is basically something that could be significantly concerning, or if someone would be passing though as well, how do you kind of like

let's say even address those situations.

So those plans are always in those situations.

Like how do you like, again, not to go grim, but if terms of something happens to someone, how do you kind of address, help support the person or even basically handle, let's say the body itself and then kind of bringing them back though on earth.

So again,

All these things are already planned out from the simplest issue to the most grim or dire situation as well.

And it just kind of depends on that situation.

The one thing that you did kind of mention was that, yes, by all means, Artemis 2 is going further than we have gone before.

And this is really opening the gates to a whole new frontier, even in space medicine, where traditionally we have been very close to what we call low Earth orbit.

So even at the ISS, if there was an emergency situation, we could bring an individual back in a matter of hours if that was needed.

However, when we're talking about the moon or even ideally when we are looking at Mars, it could take several, well, it could take

Even Mars, if we look at the appropriate time window for us to come back, it might even take like almost a three years window for somebody to come back.