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Lorie Grimes-Ledesma: Mitigating COPV Risks

Lorie Grimes-Ledesma is the Composite Pressure Vessel Lead at NASA JPL in California. To learn more about COPVs and other lessons from NASA, visit the Critical Knowledge Gateway at https://km.nasa.gov/critical-knowledge-gateway/

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Lorie Grimes-Ledesma: COPVs Failure Modes

Lorie Grimes-Ledesma is the Composite Pressure Vessel Lead at NASA JPL in California. To learn more about COPVs and other lessons from NASA, visit the Critical Knowledge Gateway at https://km.nasa.gov/critical-knowledge-gateway/

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Lorie Grimes-Ledesma: Disadvantages of COPVs

Lorie Grimes-Ledesma is the Composite Pressure Vessel Lead at NASA JPL in California. To learn more about COPVs and other lessons from NASA, visit the Critical Knowledge Gateway at https://km.nasa.gov/critical-knowledge-gateway/

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Lorie Grimes-Ledesma: Advantages of COPVs

Lorie Grimes-Ledesma is the Composite Pressure Vessel Lead at NASA JPL in California. To learn more about COPVs and other lessons from NASA, visit the Critical Knowledge Gateway at https://km.nasa.gov/critical-knowledge-gateway/

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Dr. Richard Williams: International Health Care System

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the set-up of the International Health Care System and how it serves astronauts from all countries and is based on NASA and Russia’s health and medical systems.

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Dr. Richard Williams: Comprehensive Health Care for Crew

Dr. Richard Williams, Chief Health and Medical Officer at NASA, describes the way healthcare is provided to crew after their mission. After the Columbia accident, NASA investigated monitoring the healthcare for astronauts and their families for the rest of their lives to help the crew member with any problems and to gain better understanding of […]

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Dr. Richard Williams: Air Crew and Medical Relationship

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.

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Dr. Richard Williams: Medical Quality Assurance

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.

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Dr. Richard Williams: Risk Acceptance in Health and Medical

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.

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