Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8056719 | Acta Astronautica | 2015 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
The paper discusses the far unexplored biophysical problem of manned flight to Mars, scheduled for the next decade. In long-term manned space flights on the orbital stations “Salyut” Soviet cosmonaut crews from three of the co-authors (cosmonauts V.V. Kovalenok, A.S. Ivanchenkov, and V.P. Savinykh) had repeatedly observed the effect of certain geophysical conditions on the psychological state of each crew. These effects coincide with the increased intensity of global illumination in the upper ionosphere space on flight altitudes (300-360Â km). It is important that during all of these periods, most of the geomagnetic pulsations were completely absent. Possible ways to study the synergistic effects of the simultaneous absence of the geomagnetic field, the magnetic pulsations and the microwave radiation of the terrestrial ionosphere are considered for a flight to Mars.
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Authors
S.V. Avakyan, V.V. Kovalenok, V.P. Savinykh, A.S. Ivanchenkov, N.A. Voronin, A. Trchounian, L.A. Baranova,