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.

Space Medicine

Countermeasures

How this effect is mitigated.

Pharmacological Countermeasures

Knowledge connections

Member of groupSpace Medicine
Mitigated byPharmacological Countermeasures

Sources

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NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
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