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How To Train for a Mission to the ISS: Medical Mayhem
Astronaut Chris Hadfield with biomedical equipment attached to his forehead. Credit: Chris Hadfield.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is scheduled to launch on Decemer 19 with crewmates Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko on a Soyuz rocket, heading for a long-duration 5-month mission on board the International Space Station. We’re taking a look back at his 2-plus years of training for this mission, which Hadfield shared via Twitter and Facebook, letting the public get an inside look at what it takes to prepare for a long-duration spaceflight.
The movie “The Right Stuff” depicted the grueling array of medical tests the early astronauts had to undergo in order to determine if they had… well, the right stuff to go into space. Now, more than 50 years later, with scientists and the medical community knowing quite a bit more about how the human body reacts to micro-gravity, the pre-flight medical procedures aren’t quite as intrusive. But astronaut Chris Hadfield says it is still part of being an astronaut.
“They do a nice job of telling how hard it is going to be, how invasive,” he said in an interview with Universe Today, “but none of that matters when it’s time to go to bed at night, when you’ve got six different probes stuck in you or a loud machine next to you, and you know you you’re not going to get a good night’s sleep.”
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Post tags: Canadian Space Agency, Chris Hadfield, Expedition 34/35, International Space Station (ISS), Space Flight, Space Station
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2012-12-12 02:21:29
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/98941/how-to-train-for-a-mission-to-the-iss-medical-mayhem/
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