Gravity and space flight: effects on nutritional status
作者:
Scott Smith,
Helen Lane,
期刊:
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
(OVID Available online 1999)
卷期:
Volume 2,
issue 4
页码: 335-338
ISSN:1363-1950
年代: 1999
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The final decade of the millennium has seen an enormous amount of on-orbit life sciences research, including both short- and long-duration flight research. Life sciences dedicated Space Shuttle flights have made intensive research opportunities available to study on the acute adaptation to weightlessness. The NASA/Mir Science Program combined resources of the USA and Russia to provide the first long-duration flight opportunities for the United States since the Skylab program of the early 1970s. Many of the results of these studies are still being evaluated, and in some cases data are still being collected to assess long-term readaptation to gravity after several months in weightlessness. The surge in life sciences research during this decade serves as a preamble to the opportunities to be provided by the latest addition to the Earth-orbiting structures - the International Space Station.
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