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Although commercial astronauts will eventually work in orbit, in the near term, their work environment will be closer to home at suborbital altitudes of about 100 krn. Now, you may think that medical certification and training for suborbital spaceflight will be a cinch; after all, with all the experience NASA has flying astronauts into space, flight surgeons should have a pretty good idea of what to look for and astronaut training should be fairly routine. In reality, that experience doesn't translate to the commercial suborbital space industry, and there are a number of reasons for this.
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Seedhouse, E. (2012). Medical Qualification and Training. In: Astronauts For Hire. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0520-7_3
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