return to Earth relatively quickly, arriving at a DMCF within 24–48 h.
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Future exploration beyond LEO to the Moon and Mars will present many challenges, including communication delays, minimal to nonexistent resupply, long transfer times to definitive medical care, and significant limits on mass, power, volume, and data.
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These factors plus the extended durations of future missions to the more hazardous and less explored environments of cislunar space and beyond change the paradigm for medical risk and make medical evacuation simultaneously more likely