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Station Astronauts Begin Studying Troubling Vision Issue

Posted June 07, 2013 2:11 PM

From Aerospace Daily & Defense Report:

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station this week kicked off a four-year study of vision problems that surfaced among crew members several years ago and now rank among the top health concerns facing fliers selected for future deep-space missions.

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06/09/2013 4:16 PM

Duh, on earth gravity "pulls" the airball fluid toward the lower portions of the ear so the fluid-wall pressure is higher there, while in space the fluid "floats" central in the eye, exterting pressure on ALL the eye surface, which is beyond what the eye is accustomed to experiencing!

MORAL - 'Mother Nature' has had millions of years of experience with gravity here on Earth, but only 40+ years of non-gravity up there in Space!

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06/10/2013 10:05 AM

It's not just the astronauts. ALL of NASA seems to have a vision problem.

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