[Some magnetic-biological problems of distant and long-term space flights].
Some magnetobiological problems of orbital (in the geomagnetic field--GMF) and interplanetary (in hypomagnetic conditions) flights are considered. The influence of electromagnetic fields (EMF) created by systems and equipment of the space vehicle (SV) are touched also. A level of the geomagnetic field (GMF) onboard during the orbital flights is discussed. Its periodic variations onboard owing to movement of SV on an orbit are analyzed. The reader's attention in attracted to the papers by R.M. Baevsky et al. in which the influence of magnetic storms and periodic variations of GMS on the cardiovascular system of astronauts onboard are shown. Possible ways and mechanisms of the influence are discussed. The wrong assertions in a number of works namely that at orbital flights an appreciable electrical field is induced in an organism of an astronaut in a space-craft and the electrical field may by responsible for some biological impacts are analyzed. The situation at the future in the terplanetary flights (for example Martian missions) when a crew and biological objects for a long time will be in the interplanetary magnetic field (by several orders less then GMF) is considered. As applied to the flights the opportunities of generation onboard the "artificial" GMF are outlined. The ensuing biological and technical questions are discussed.
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State Research Center-Institute for Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 123007 Russia. trukhkt@com2com.ru
D018480:Astronauts; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D018535:Mars; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013026:Space Flight; D018531:Spacecraft; D013997:Time Factors; D014893:Weightlessness