A specialized branch of aerospace medicine that studies and mitigates the health impacts of living in outer space. It addresses issues like bone density loss, muscle atrophy, radiation exposure, and fluid shifts caused by microgravity. Flight surgeons rely on this field to develop exercise protocols, dietary requirements, and medical interventions for astronauts on long-duration missions.
Heard on the job
The space medicine team wants to increase his resistive exercise time to counteract the bone density loss.