Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: women shuttle crew members/space sickness Message-ID: <589@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 15:40:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.589 Posted: Wed Oct 10 15:40:40 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 08:21:45 EDT References: <1260@vax3.fluke.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 > when will there be a mission comprised of just women? Since it will be at least five years until we see a female shuttle pilot and even longer until a female mission commander and you need to have one of each for any shuttle mission AND you will then need to have NASA make a conscious decision to put together an all-female crew I would say such a thing might happen around NASA's centennial. Never underestimate a government administration which could be pressured by the Women's Christian Temperance Union to exclude table wine from the Skylab food stores. (I'm not being critical, I think it's humorous.) > It seems that only two shuttle flights were without [space adaptation > syndrome] related problems: the two with women on board. Even if this is true (I don't know), what about the Skylab astronauts that never experienced the syndrome? No, I'd bet that any SAS experienced is peculiar to the individual and that crewmates have little effect on this. > Would an all women crew exhibit symptoms of space sickness? > Or are women just not as susceptible as men to orbital nausea? > My on going thanks to Roger Noe for his keeping us informed. > Mike Schuh We don't have much data for women astronauts yet, so it's hard to speculate about the first two questions. Of course, when you have a group of women working very closely together for as long as a shuttle crew does, being sequestered together for a week before launch and living together in the spacecraft for a week, you would expect some alignment of certain other medical functions, but this really does belong in net.women. With luck it won't happen during the mission itself. Glad to know I am of service, Mike. Please let me know if you have any other questions. -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe