Showing posts with label Astronaut Health Top Priority. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronaut Health Top Priority. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Astronaut Health Top Priority

As each space shuttle glides down the runway to a stop, a large caravan of vehicles heads to Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility. In that caravan is a Johnson Space Center flight crew surgeon and other medical personnel.Each mission's crew is assigned a flight crew surgeon who follows them from the time they are assigned to a mission through landing. For the STS-127 crew, that surgeon