Human factors in a low-gravity environment became important with the beginning of manned space flight programs. The costs and dangers associated with actual space experiments necessitated the development of reduced-gravity simulation techniques. Since parabolic flight is the only way to produce approximately the same physical conditions as orbital space flight, it is the only technique acceptable for many human factors studies. However, the shortness of periods at the desired gravity level and the high gravity levels of the pre- and post-parabola flight compromise the effectiveness of the technique. In spite of its faults, this technique has been used to produce many meaningful studies. These studies have done much to increase our limited knowledge of reduced-gravity human factors. It appears that this technique will continue to be a main source of low-gravity data, until the era of manned orbiting laboratories. (Author)
Reduced-Gravity Human Factors Research with Aircraft
1969
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Human Factors Engineering , Weightlessness , Pressure pattern flight , Human engineering , Simulation , Space environmental conditions , Tolerances(Physiology) , Mathematical models , Space medicine , Reprints , Reduced gravity environments , High gravity flight , Parabolic flight technique , Motion sickness
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