Medical investigations results obtained in 125-day flight on "Salyut-7" and "Mir" orbital stations

Abstract

In 1986 in USSR medical investigations were continued in 125-day flight on "Salyut-7" and "Soyuz-T-15" orbital stations and on "Mir" basic block. Medical program consisted of medical control during active parts of flight and works in open space, profound medical examinations in rest and in function tests, metabolism and its regulation analysis, hygienic estimation of environment, estimation of prophylactic methods to prevent unfavourable influence of weightlessness on human organism. Cosmonauts felt well in all parts of flight on the dates of radio exchange, TV-seances, self- and each other control. Profound medical investigations discovered several individual changes in parametres of every cosmonaut's blood system. This charactaral changes appeared not in rest only, but with the influence of loading test and depended on initial hemodynamic status before the test.