The
goals and objectives of the ISS Medical Project (ISSMP)
are to maximize the use the ISS and other spaceflight
platforms to assess the effects of long-duration spaceflight
on human systems, devise and verify strategies to ensure
optimal crew (individual and group) behavior and performance;
and develop and validate a suite of integrated physical
(e.g., exercise), pharmacologic and/or nutritional countermeasures
against deleterious effects of space flight that may impact
mission success or crew health. The ISSMP provides planning,
integration, and implementation services for Human Research
Program (HRP) research tasks and evaluation activities
requiring access to space or related flight resources
on the ISS, Shuttle, Soyuz, Progress, or other spaceflight
vehicles and platforms. This includes pre flight and post
flight activities. ISSMP services include operations and
sustaining engineering for HRP flight hardware; experiment
integration and operation, including individual research
tasks and on-orbit validation of next generation on-orbit
equipment; medical operations; procedures development
and validation; and crew training tools and processes,
as well as operation and sustaining engineering for the
Telescience Support Center. The ISSMP integrates the HRP
approved flight activity complement and interfaces with
external implementing organizations, such as the ISS Payloads
Office and International Partners, to accomplish the HRP's
objectives. This effort is led by JSC with Baseline Data
Collection support from KSC.
For more information visit the ISSMP
web site.
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