NASA-STD-3001A (VOL. 1), NASA TECHNICAL STANDARD: NASA SPACE FLIGHT HUMAN-SYSTEM STANDARD - VOLUME 1 (REVISION A: CREW HEALTH (30-JUL-2014)

NASA-STD-3001A (VOL. 1), NASA TECHNICAL STANDARD: NASA SPACE FLIGHT HUMAN-SYSTEM STANDARD - VOLUME 1 (REVISION A: CREW HEALTH (30-JUL-2014).,This Standard is published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide uniform engineering and technical requirements for processes, procedures, practices, and methods that have been endorsed as standard for NASA programs and projects, including requirements for selection, application, and design criteria of an item. This Standard is approved for use by NASA Headquarters and NASA Centers, including Component Facilities and Technical and Service Support Centers. This Standard establishes requirements for providing a healthy and safe environment for crewmembers and for providing health and medical programs for crewmembers during all phases of space flight. Requirements are established to optimize crew health and performance, thus contributing to overall mission success, and to prevent negative long-term health consequences related to space flight. In this document, the Office of the Chief Health and Medical Officer establishes NASA�s space flight crew health requirements for the pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight phases of human space flight. These requirements apply to all NASA human space flight programs and are not developed for any specific program. However, while some of the existing programs, such as the International Space Station program, meet the intent and purpose of these requirements currently, these requirements may have implications for longer duration missions and missions with architectures and objectives outside of low Earth orbit. Although the requirements are applicable to the in-flight phase of all space missions, it is anticipated that they will be most relevant during long-duration lunar outpost and Mars exploration missions, since the combined ill effects of exposure to the space environment will be of most concern in those mission scenarios.