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Astronaut Perspectives: An Overview

Encyclopedia of Bioastronautics

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The personal recollections of physiological changes during and after space flight are summarized by an astronaut who made five trips to space on the Space Shuttle (Fig. 1).

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Recollections of changes in sensation and body function during five space flights on the Space Shuttle. (Photograph of astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman (the author) in his EVA Space Suit)

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  • Young LR, Oman CM, Watt DGD, Money KE, Lichtenberg BK, Kenyon RV, Arrott AP (1986) M.I.T./Canadian vestibular experiments o the Spacelab-1 mission: 1. Sensory adaptation to weightlessness and readaptation to one-g: an overview. Exp Brain Res 64:291–298

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  1. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jeffrey A. Hoffman

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  1. Room 37-219, Massachusetts Institute of Technolo Room 37-219, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA

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  2. Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Center for Space Medicine, HOUSTON, TX, USA

    Jeffrey P. Sutton

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 33-312, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jeffrey A. Hoffman

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Hoffman, J.A. (2019). Astronaut Perspectives: An Overview. In: Young, L., Sutton, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Bioastronautics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10152-1_120-1

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