In 1979, NASA accepted our formal life sciences experiment for flight on multiple shuttle missions. The title of this study was A Preventive Method For Space Adaptation Syndrome: Autogenic-Feedback Training.

Objectives:

1. To evaluate the effectiveness of Autogenic-Feedback Training (AFT), a physiological self-regulation training technique, as a treatment for space motion sickness
2. To compare physiological data and inflight symptom reports to ground-based motion sickness data
3. To predict susceptibility to space motion sickness based on preflight data of each treatment group crewmember

Relevance to NASA's Goals:
Goals of Life Sciences : Enable a Permanent Human Presence in Space

1. To study physiological and behavioral indicators of human adaptation to the microgravity environment
2. To use Autogenic Feedback Training to facilitate this adaptation and readaptation to Earth

Preflight

     Zero Gravity Aircraft

     Shuttle Mockup

     Lab Training

Inflight

Postflight