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Until crewmembers began complaining of eyesight-related symptoms researchers had thought the vision problem to be transient. But retrospective analysis of medical records has revealed that 29 percent of 300 shuttle astronauts and 60 percent of space station astronauts have suffered some form of visual degradation.
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As a reminder, the CO2 levels on the ISS are between 2.3 and 5.3 mmHg, which is 10–20 times the normal terrestrial atmospheric level of 0.23 mmHg.
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Seedhouse, E. (2015). Long Duration Flight Data. In: Microgravity and Vision Impairments in Astronauts. SpringerBriefs in Space Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17870-7_2
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