National Aeronautics and Space Administration
OrganisationROR
Trials
Collaborator, Phase 1, Completed, 26 people, 19 Jan 2024
Collaborator, Phase 2, Status unknown, 30 people, 2 Jun 2023
Collaborator, Phase 2, Status unknown, 80 people, 10 May 2023
Phase 4, Completed, 99 people, 22 Apr 2008
Awards made
Senescent cell targeting to alleviate space radiation induced neuroinflammation, 80NSSC24K0287, US$475k, 2024–2027, 7 Dec 2023
National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurements
Purpose to determine by record-linkage studies of doe worker populations whether dementia and related conditions can be associated with high-let alpha-particle doses to brain, 80NSSC19M0161, US$5.1m, 2019–2027, 16 Aug 2019
The ultimate goal of the studies proposed here is to establish temporal profiles of human telomere length dynamics and dna damage responses of importance for maintenance of human health and…, 80NSSC19K0434, US$1.6m, 2019–2027, 21 Mar 2019
The present application seeks to study the long-term consequences of cosmic radiation exposure, 80NSSC19K0436, US$457.3k, 2019–2023, 14 Mar 2019
Spaceflight imposes a unique set of stressors on astronauts as a result of mechanical unloading due to microgravity conditions while tissues are bombarded by galactic and solar radiation, 80NSSC17K0118, US$179.9k, 2017–2023, 17 Jul 2017
Sources: usaspending.gov
Papers
PloS one, 2 Oct 2026
Preprints.org, 30 Sept 2026
Astronaut life expectancy and the limits of general population comparisons
NPJ microgravity, 9 Jun 2026
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 26 Nov 2025
Nanobioreactor detection of space-associated hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell aging
Cell stem cell, 6 Sept 2025
Accelerated Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging in Space
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 1 Feb 2024
Long-term simulated microgravity fosters carotid aging-like changes via Piezo1
Cardiovascular research, 25 Jan 2024
Interrelationship Between Sex, Age, Blood Volume, and Vo2max
Aerospace medicine and human performance, 1 Apr 2019
Radiation research, 23 Nov 2010