PHYSIOLAB project for CASSIOPEE: the space cardiovascular exploratory laboratory
Louisy, F.
Travaux Scientifiques des Chercheurs du Service de Sante des Armees Durant l'Annee . 17: 281-282
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0243-7473 PMID: 11539483 Document Number: 468832
The French Health Defense Service is concerned by the finalization and the implementation of the PHYSIOLAB laboratory. In July 1996, PHYSIOLAB will participate to the french--russian mission CASSIOPEE. It is a functional exploratory laboratory which will support a programm of scientific experiments whose aim is to better understand cardiovascular deconditioning under weightlessness and to implement medical monitoring of cosmonauts during next french-russian space missions. In this paper, functional and scientific aims, and structure of PHYSIOLAB are described.