title: Biomedical results of the Space Shuttle orbital flight test program.
abstract: On July 4, 1982, the Space Shuttle Columbia landed at Edwards Air Force Base, CA, thus successfully completing the fourth and last in a series of Orbital Flight Tests (OFT) of the Space Transportation System (STS). The primary goal of medical operations support for the OFT was to assure the health and well-being of flight personnel during all phases of the mission. To this end, crew health status was evaluated preflight, inflight, and postflight. Biomedical flight test requirements were completed in the following areas: physiological adaptation to microgravity, cabin acoustical noise, cabin atmospheric evaluation, radiation dosimetry, crew exercise equipment evaluation, and a cardiovascular deconditioning countermeasure assessment.
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D004032:Diet; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009041:Motion Sickness / Q000188:drug therapy; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology; D013026:Space Flight; D014481:United States; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014893:Weightlessness / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants