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Yvonne Cagle, M.D.
IPT Project Manager
Col. USAF, Ret.
(Flight Surgeon)
NASA Ames Research Center
17 July 2009
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NASA’s Commercial Suborbital Research Program
4 Minutes of Microgravity
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4 Minutes
NASA’s Commercial of Microgravity
Suborbital Research Program
A is for Airway
4 Minutes to Save a Life in Microgravity
■ The human body has 4 minutes of useful brain function in a deoxygenated state
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Testing Emergency Procedures
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Science
Technology Development
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NASA’s Commercial Suborbital Research Program
Workshops
Human Suborbital
Provider-Investigator
Workshop
Dec. 15, 2008
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Provider-Investigator
Workshop
May 3, 2009
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■ Sensing ■ Resistive Exercise Devices
■ Climaterics ■ Inner Ear Neural Signal
■ Vertical Atmospheric Sampling ■ Dust Particle Agglomeration
■ Gene Expression ■ Metal Alloy Phase Separation
■ Fluids ■ Glovebox Investigations
■ Physiology ■ Combustion
■ Emergency Procedures ■ IR and NIR Optics
■ Countermeasures ■ Technology Testing
■ Cardiovascular Deconditioning ■ STEM Education
■ Workforce Development ■ Cell Cultures
NASA’s Commercial Suborbital Research Program
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NASA’s Commercial Suborbital Research Program
Why Suborbital?
Sounding Commercial
Parabolic Flights
Rockets Suborbital
Time in
Microgravity 20 minutes 4 minutes 23 seconds
(Continuous)
Quality of
High High Comparatively Low
Microgravity
Maximum g-
20 g 2 Ð4 g 2 Ð4 g
Loading
Human Tended
No Yes Yes
Science
Comparing commercial suborbital research platforms
with two other microgravity research platforms 10
NASA’s Commercial Suborbital Research Program
Benefits