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The Library of Human Spaceflight.

Sixty years of knowledge about the human body in space is held by a shrinking number of people and one retiring station. The Library is our initiative to keep that record and put it to use. This work is supported by the Evermay Future Fellowship.

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In short

Record it while it is still first-hand

The Library records practitioner knowledge, ties it to the hardware it concerns and puts it back to work with the teams maturing the replacements.

Take part
01

Oral histories

Recorded conversations with people who worked on Skylab, Mir and ISS habitation systems.

02

Practitioner archives

The working records of the architects, engineers and flight surgeons who built the field.

03

Design pattern archive

Recurring solutions to volume, stowage, privacy and crew workflow across every flown habitat.

04

The crew health record

One acquisition methodology across agency crews, commercial crews and ground analogs.