Successful exploration of space depends on the health and well-being of people who travel and work there. For this reason, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has dedicated several Space Shuttle missions to examine how living and working in space affects the human body. Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1) is the first of these missions. The main purpose of the SLS-1 mission is to study the mechanisms, magnitudes, and time courses of certain physiological changes that occur during space flight and to investigate the consequences of the body's adaptation to microgravity and readjustment to gravity upon return to Earth. How does space flight influence the heart and circulatory system, metabolic processes, the muscles and bones, and the cells. If responses to weightlessness are undesirable, how can they be prevented or controlled. Will the human body maintain its physical and chemical equilibrium during months aboard a space station and years-long missions to Mars. When crews return to Earth, what can they expect to experience as their bodies readjust to Earth's gravity. With the SLS-1 experiments, NASA is addressing some of these questions. Various aspects of the SLS-1 are discussed.


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    Title :

    STS-40 Spacelab Life Sciences 1 (SLS-1): The First Dedicated Spacelab Life Sciences Mission


    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    54 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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