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... The life sciences research program envisioned for Space ASSESSMENT Station Freedom is essential to achieving an understanding of the performance of humans in long-duration spaceflight. The enclosed statement notes that the inclusion of provisions for the centrifuge and related life sciences equipment in the baseline plan is a welcome development.
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... ; uncertain adequacy of power, supporting equipment, and space; and the delay until the early 2000s in accomplishing life sciences research that is essential prior to long-duration human spaceflight; The vulnerability of the schedule for installation of the centrifuge and for the life sciences research enabled by it. Freedom system design and assembly planning should give higher priority to making the most direct and rapid progress possible toward establishing capability for life sciences research -- essential to human space exploration goals -- including installation of the 2.5-meter centrifuge, rather than to maintaining the schedule for station first element launch and subsequent Man-Tended Capability; and file:///C|/SSB_old_web/freedom92report.htm (1 of 3)
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... NASA should establish a clear, long-term plan for Freedom's utilization for life sciences research. This planning should address the impact of microgravity and of psychosocial factors on humans in transit between Earth and Mars; the design, test, and critical evaluation of applicable mitigation measures; and the consequences of fractional gravity as a working environment both in transit and on the surfaces of the Moon and Mars.
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