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Letter Report
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... These issues relate to the safety of shuttle crews on short-term as well as extended duration flights. Both the CSBM and the SSB are concerned with the adequacy of the proposed EDO Medical Research Program to support the development of appropriate countermeasures against physiological adaptations to microgravity and allow for the enhancement and prediction of crew performance during and after the critical phases associated with orbiter landings.
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... ATTACHMENT A The Committee on Space Biology and Medicine offers the following comments and recommendations as a possible approach to addressing the near term safety issues associated with shuttle landings and the EDO Medical Research Program. A prerequisite for the success of the program is access to all pertinent individual data characterizing physiological functions, crew performance, and their interrelationship during the critical return to the 1-g environment.
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... The aviation research capabilities of Ames and Dryden could prove useful in this regard. Related to this, there should be review of the FAA database relative to crew performance under a variety of environmental conditions including fatigue and circadian dysrhythmia.
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