SANS
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NASA
Risk of Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome
Exposure to altered gravity can cause ocular and brain structural changes to develop during spaceflight; these changes could lead to vision alterations, cognitive effects, or other deleterious health effects. SANS is a syndrome unique to humans that fly in space, and there is no terrestrial disease equivalent. Brain structural changes appear small but seem to indicate that over half of…
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NASA
Web Vision Technologies Announces the Vision for Mars™ Project to Help NASA Protect the Visual Health of Astronauts
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Web Vision Technologies is working closely with National Aeronautical Space Administration (NASA) to develop an “All-in-One” vision testing (diagnostic) device that can be deployed on spacecraft to do comprehensive vision testing, evaluation, and to guide medical interventions of astronauts experiencing vision problems on future long-duration, deep space missions. There is limited room for vision testing equipment on future…
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