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Cardiovascular adaptation to spaceflight

Medicine &amp Science in Sports &amp Exercise, 1996
This article reviews recent flight and ground-based studies of cardiovascular adaptation to spaceflight. Prominent features of microgravity exposure include loss of gravitational pressures, relatively low venous pressures, headward fluid shifts, plasma volume loss, and postflight orthostatic intolerance and reduced exercise capacity.
A R, Hargens, D E, Watenpaugh
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Sensory-Based Alterations and Countermeasures in Spaceflight and Spaceflight Analogs

Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance
INTRODUCTION: Long-duration spaceflight and isolated, confined, and extreme environments present various challenges to crewmembers. One less-frequently discussed challenge is altered sensory inputs and how they can adversely affect cognition and performance.
Bryan M, White, Aleksandra, Stankovic, Stijn, Thoolen, Nataliya, Kosmyna, Vladimir, Ivkovic, Gary, Strangman   +5 more
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Pharmacokinetic Consequences of Spaceflight

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1991
Spaceflight induces a wide range of physiological and biochemical changes, including disruption of gastrointestinal (GI) function, fluid and electrolyte balance, circulatory dynamics, and organ blood flow, as well as hormonal and metabolic perturbations.
L, Putcha, N M, Cintrón
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Spaceflight-associated pain

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology
Purpose of review Consequences of the expanding commercial spaceflight industry include an increase in total number of spaceflight participants and an accompanying surge in the average number of medical comorbidities compared with government-based astronaut corps.
Ariana M, Nelson, Ryan A, Lacinski, Jonathan G, Steller   +2 more
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Automation in manned spaceflight

Acta Astronautica, 1992
With the ever increasing complexity and use of advanced technologies in the development of equipment and experiments in spaceflight, the possibility offers itself to automating repetitious or very sensitive operations. The implementation of such automation lends itself well to teleoperations and the eventual introduction of artificial intelligence ...
J R, Kass, E, Schafhauser
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Orientation Illusions in Spaceflight

Journal of Vestibular Research, 1997
Investigations of spontaneous illusory reactions were carried out during spaceflights of various durations by ANKETA questionnaires (104 cosmonauts). From a total of 104 cosmonauts, 24, in addition, used a dictaphone to record a verbal description of the illusions and their sensations on tape.
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Spaceflight

2018
A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo ...
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Surgical Capabilities in Spaceflight

Surgical Clinics of North America
The current missions to Low Earth Orbit do not require surgical intervention or training owing to fast evacuation times to Earth. Long mission durations to the Moon, Mars, and beyond will require increased surgical training and capabilities for the crew.
Carlo A, Canepa, Kaleigh A, Stabenau
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Women’s Health in Spaceflight

Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine, 2014
To review the current state of knowledge with regards to clinical challenges related to women's health during spaceflight.Articles were reviewed relevant to "women", "sex," and "gender" in "microgravity," "weightlessness," and "spaceflight" in the English and Russian languages.There were 50 papers identified.
Laura, Drudi, S Marlene, Grenon
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Spaceflight

2009
This book is a comprehensive history of the first six decades of space exploration, from the end of World War II to the modern era of routine international cooperation in space. From Sputnik to Soyuz, Mercury 7 to the International Space Station,Spaceflight: A Historical Encyclopediaspans the entire half-century of space travel like no other ...
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