The crew of the Skylab 4 Mission exhibited physiological changes during their 84-day mission that resembled but in several important areas did not reach the magnitude of changes exhibited in crewmen of the two earlier Skylab flights. At rest all three crewmen showed, in comparison to preflight levels, elevated mean systolic and pulse pressures and decreased mean diastolic and mean arterial pressures. Similar changes were seen in most Skylab 2 and Skylab 3 crewmen. While mean resting heart rates of both the Skylab 3 and Skylab 4 crews were elevated, those of the Skylab 2 crew were, however, lower than during preflight tests. Stressed heart rates followed previous patterns in being consistently elevated over preflight values. Postflight changes in cardiovascular parameters for the most part resembled those seen in previous crewmen of space missions. Their recovery to preflight limits occurred rapidly. In-flight data and subjective impressions of the crewmen confirmed that lower body negative pressure in weightlessness imposed a greater stress upon the cardiovascular system than in earth's gravity.


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    Title :

    Lower body negative pressure: Third manned Skylab mission


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    Publication date :

    1974-11-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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