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Extended Duration Orbiter Medical ProjectThe Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO) program addresses a need for more time to perform experiments and other tasks during Space Shuttle missions. As a part of this program, the Extended Duration Orbiter Medical Project (EDOMP) has been instituted to obtain information about physiologic effects of extending mission duration and the effectiveness of countermeasures against factors that might compromise crew health, safety, or performance on extended-duration missions. Only those investigations that address and characterize operational problems, develop countermeasures, or evaluate the effectiveness of countermeasures will be pursued. The EDOMP investigations will include flight-associated Detailed Supplementary Objectives as well as ground-based studies simulating the influence of microgravity. Investigator teams have been formed in the following areas: biomedical physiology, cardiovascular and fluid/electrolyte physiology, environmental health, muscle and exercise physiology, and neurophysiology. Major operational questions must be answered in each of these areas, and investigations have been designed to answer them. The EDO program will proceed only after countermeasures have been shown to be effective in preventing or mitigating the adverse changes they have been designed to attenuate. The program is underway and will continue on each Shuttle flight as the manifest builds toward a 16-day orbital flight.
Document ID
19910029439
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Leach, C. S.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Pool, S. L.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Sawin, C. F.
(NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Nicogossian, A. E.
(NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
August 14, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1990
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Report/Patent Number
IAF PAPER 90-514
Accession Number
91A14062
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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