Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the relationship between the air crew and flight surgeons and how the flight doctors exercise every option to allow the astronauts to fly.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, talks about the medical quality assurance policy and a watch dog system that the agency has operated under for the past two decades. Dr. Williams also talks about how the health and medical system is integrated into programs and engineering as much as possible.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, talks about the ethical framework for the acceptance of risk from the health and medical perspective and the increased risk from missions to beyond low-earth orbit.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the potential for in situ resource utilization and manufacturing such as 3-D printing to replenish medical supplies during a mission. Probabilistic risk assessment is being applied to help configure medical systems for inter-planetary missions.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, discusses the difficulty health and medical requirements pose for space vehicle designers.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, discusses some of the symptoms that were observed from astronaut Scott Kelly’s one year of living in space and how they might influence future long duration human spaceflight missions.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the risks of microgravity, radiation, and isolation and confinement in human spaceflight and how NASA is interested in engineering solutions to these risks.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the various groups of health and medical professionals that help to proliferate the medical knowledge that is gained in the human spaceflight program.
Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, explains how the health and medical authority model depends on research from the human research program. In a cyclical pattern, health standards drive programmatic requirements, the requirements drive the type of research being done, and the research produces deliverables to health and medical practice for […]
