ABSTRACT
This chapter will explore how conceptual future nanomedicine might be practiced in a range of space applications, constituting what we might consider to be the ultimate in remoteness from the perspective of our primarily Earth-bound human experience. Within the realms of aerospace and space travel, conjunctive with the further physical size reductions and yet increased capabilities of nanoelectronics blended with articial intelligence (AI), nanomedicine may be envisaged as enabling a wide variety of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities. Such medical innovations may be manifest as core components of advanced extravehicular space suits. Space-suit-integrated nanomedical capabilities may impart a number of advantages insofar as the continuous real-time monitoring of astronaut health, and if required, the capacity for virtually instantaneous in situ diagnostics, administration of therapeutics, or in cases of serious or accidental circumstances, and emergency interventions. These capacities would serve to ensure optimal astronaut health and provide for the rapid resolution of practically any health-related issue that may arise at any time when astronauts don their space suits, during space walks, or further into the future, to support potentially extended exploratory terrestrial missions on the Moon and Mars.
