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Development and Improvement of Countermeasures against Negative Effects of Weightlessness in Long-Term Space Flights on Board International Space Station

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The paper describes the history of development and improvement of the means of the Russian system of countermeasures against the negative effects of space flights over the past two decades and the contribution of Inesa B. Kozlovskaya to this field. The results of physiological tests of the efficacy of new and upgraded means under the conditions of ground-based model experiments and the prospects for the development of the countermeasure system are described.

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Yarmanova, E.N. Development and Improvement of Countermeasures against Negative Effects of Weightlessness in Long-Term Space Flights on Board International Space Station. Hum Physiol 47, 328–334 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S036211972103018X

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