Extravehicular mobility unit training and astronaut injuries

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 469-474

  Strauss, Samuel ^a   Krog, Ralph L ^a   Feiveson, Alan H ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronaut training; Extravehicular activity; Spacesuit; Systems engineering; Training analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FOOT INJURY; GLOVE; HAND INJURY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOISTURE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPACE FLIGHT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ARM INJURIES; ASTRONAUTS; FOOT INJURIES; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SHOULDER; SPACE SUITS; TEXAS;

EID: 18244392693     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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