Following spaceflight, crewmembers experience postural and locomotor instability. The magnitude and duration of post-flight sensorimotor disturbances increase with longer duration exposure to microgravity. These post-flight postural and locomotor alterations can pose a risk to crew safety and to mission objectives if nominal or emergency vehicle egress is required immediately following long-duration spaceflight. Gait instabilities could prevent or extend the time required to make an emergency egress from the Orbiter, Crew Return Vehicle or a future Martian lander leading to compromised mission objectives. We propose a countermeasure that aids in maintaining functional locomotor performance. This includes retaining the ability to perform vehicular egress and meet early mission objectives soon after landing on a planetary surface.
Developing Sensorimotor Countermeasures to Mitigate Post-Flight Locomotor Dysfunction
Conference on International Space Station Utilization ; 2001 ; Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States
15.10.2001
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
AIAA-2001-4941 Developing Sensorimotor Countermeasures to Mitigate Postflight Locomotor Dysfunction
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2001
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