The Human Body and Weightlessness Operational Effects, Problems and Countermeasures /

• Main Authors: Thornton, William (Author), Bonato, Frederick (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Physics.; Human physiology.; Rehabilitation.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Human Physiology.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).

This book focuses on all of the major problems associated with the absence of body weight in space, by analyzing effects, adaption, and re-adaptation upon returning to Earth, using sound scientific principles embedded in a historical context. Serious problems for space travelers range from Space Mot...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to Weightlessness and Its Effects on Humans
• 2. Basic Mechanisms
• 3. Space Motion Sickness and Vestibular Adaptation to Weightlessness
• 4. Fluid Shifts and Loss
• 5. Cephalic Fluid Dynamics and Ocular Changes in Weightlessness
• 6. Loss of Muscle and Bone During Spaceflight
• 7. Countermeasures to Loss of Muscle and Bone During Spaceflight
• 8. Loss of Aerobic Capacity During Weightlessness
• 9. Neuromuscular Inhibition
• 10. Loss of Body Mass During Weightlessness
• 11. Accommodations to Weightlessness.