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  • Title: Contemporary conception of anti-G protection of cosmonauts in flights aboard "Soyuz" space vehicles.
    Author: Kotovskaya AR, Vil-Viliams IF, Lukianiuk VY.
    Journal: J Gravit Physiol; 2004 Jul; 11(2):P237-8. PubMed ID: 16240527.
    Abstract:
    To ensure safety of cosmonauts impacted by +Gx loads during insertion into orbit of a Soyuz-type space vehicle, it is critical to conduct appropriate medical selection of candidates to space flights, to give them proper complete physical and specialized centrifuge training, and to make it sure that at the moment of actual injection the cosmonaut's posture is optimal relative to the g-vector and that the body is tight fitting the custom-molded couch. No AGS is needed. For the purposes of protection of cosmonauts descending in the Soyuz vehicles, vital are countermeasures applied in the course of flight, water-salt supplements on the descent day, and the optimal posture, an anti-g suit, and a custom-molded couch with an additional body-restraint system and dampers used on the phase of reentry.
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