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Astronaut Life Expectancy and the Limits of General Population Comparisons
2026-02-12
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>NASA's rigorous medical selection has successfully prevented in-flight medical emergencies throughout six decades of human spaceflight, but its effectiveness in identifying individuals with exceptional long-term survival remains unquantified. We estimated age-specific mortality rates based on 299 male US astronauts selected 1959–2021, using mortality data through 2022 (9,602 person-year...
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- c84ba551-ca10-51ce-9c2f-f78b68cc715a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8485586/v1