Physiological effect · Space Medicine
Space Adaptation Syndrome
In the first days of flight, the conflict between the eyes and the balance organs of the inner ear causes disorientation and nausea as the brain adapts to weightlessness; a mirror-image readaptation occurs on return to gravity.
Countermeasures
How this effect is mitigated.
Knowledge connections
- Member of groupSpace Medicine
- Mitigated byPharmacological Countermeasures
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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