Standard Guide for Medical Qualifications for Orbital Vehicle Participants

Importancia y uso:

4.1 Commercial companies will have the opportunity to incorporate this guide into their operations, tailoring it to meet each company’s specific requirements including, but not limited to, vehicle-specific flight parameters, safety standards, risk profiles, and consumer protection criteria.

4.2 Federal regulations, under 14 CFR § 460.45, require that industry operators must inform SFPs about mission-related risks, including hazards and risks that could result in serious injury, death, disability, or total or partial loss of physical or mental function, or both. There are many known physiological and medical alterations that occur to healthy individuals in orbital spaceflight, and certain countermeasures are known to be of benefit; however, the full impact of microgravity and other operational stress factors on pre-existing medical conditions is yet to be determined. The SFP medical standards and guidelines in this guide are considered the minimum recommendations, and governmental agencies and operators have the option for additional medical and operational controls.

Subcomité:

F47.01

Volúmen:

15.09

Número ICS:

49.140 (Space systems and operations)

Palabras clave:

commercial space flight; medical guidelines; SFP; spaceflight participant; suborbital spaceflight;