<p dir="ltr">This commentary piece responds to Dr. Konrad Szocik's 2025 critique of our earlier article published in <i>npj Microgravity</i> under the title 'Medical ethics of long-duration spaceflight' [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-023-00333-9].</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p>
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Siddharth Rajput; Victor Cole
