[The first experience using soft contact lenses during long-term space flights].
During a long-term flight on Salyut-7 and Mir orbital stations a contact lens was used for the first time in order to correct mild ametropia of one of the crew members. He used a soft contact lens for 5 hrs on flight days 10, 30, 45 and 60. As a result, acuity of vision of the treated eye increased to 1.5. This study showed that contact lenses can be employed in space flight.
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D000337:Aerospace Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000592:standards*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013026:Space Flight; D013997:Time Factors; D014586:USSR; D014792:Visual Acuity
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