{"id":521544,"date":"2026-06-27T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521544\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:48:11","slug":"nasa-tests-ai-medic-for-astronauts-too-far-from-earth-to-call-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/521544\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA tests AI medic for astronauts too far from Earth to call a doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"kicker \" style=\"\">AI AND ML<\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle \" style=\"\">Please state the nature of the medical emergency<\/p>\n<p>NASA researchers are testing an AI clinical decision support system to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during deep-space missions.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/blog\/moon-and-beyond-ramalama-being-tested-nasa-potentially-support-medical-ai-assistant-future-deep-space-missions?sc_cid=RHCTG0180000354966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant<\/a> (CMO-DA) is powered by a Red Hat-backed open source tool called RamaLama, designed to simplify how developers run, pull, and serve AI models. While it&#8217;s no Star Trek-esque Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) quite yet, it could be a boon to ailing astros far from home.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, NASA decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/offbeat\/2026\/01\/12\/ill-astronaut-prompts-crew-11-to-return-to-earth\/4289972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bring Crew-11 back<\/a> from the International Space Station (ISS) early because of a medical concern. As missions venture further afield \u2013 to the Moon, Mars, and beyond \u2013 an early return may no longer be practical, while communication delays can rule out real-time consultation with doctors on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Red Hat says that CMO-DA started life as a proof of concept before moving from a cloud-dependent model to a fully disconnected edge deployment. It currently runs on a terrestrial twin of the HPE Spaceborne Computer aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Inference is multimodal. &#8220;RamaLama provides the engine to run both large language models (LLMs) for complex medical reasoning and Vision Language Models (VLMs) for image-based symptom analysis,&#8221;\u00a0Red Hat stated. &#8220;This allows the CMO-DA to process both text and visual data without needing a massive infrastructure footprint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CMO-DA runs locally on the device, which means responses do not depend on a connection to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the system has yet to leave Earth. Testing on the Spaceborne twin allows the system to be refined before any potential deployment to the ISS. &#8220;Once validated on Earth, the CMO-DA will be demonstrated to NASA leadership so that they can evaluate its further use,&#8221; Red Hat said.<\/p>\n<p>HPE&#8217;s Spaceborne project is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpe.com\/us\/en\/newsroom\/press-release\/2024\/01\/hpe-spaceborne-computer-2-returns-to-the-international-space-station.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its third iteration aboard the ISS<\/a>. Built from off-the-shelf components, the system is based on HPE Edgeline and Proliant servers and is more than capable of machine learning and AI workloads.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, the team plans to integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI for the next iteration of the CMO-DA. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there appears to be no chance of a virtual Robert Picardo turning up to dispense medical advice to stricken astronauts. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI AND ML Please state the nature of the medical emergency NASA researchers are testing an AI clinical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-521544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}