November 2016
Simulating space in a bathtub
... of comfort and the possible danger of prolonged skin contact with a liquid environment. Early studies Dry immersion involves immersing the subject in thermoneutral water covered with an elastic waterproof fabric In the early 1970s, two scientists...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
...-rest testing (with a head of bed inclination of 5-8 degrees for experiment durations from seven to 120 days) and ‘dry immersion’ (from three to 21 days) to estimate the microgravity effect on bone tissue and the associated redistribution of fluids...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... small group psychology. New modelling methods were being introduced, including ‘dry’ immersion and anti-orthostatic hypokinesia. The maximum duration of the dry immersion experiment was 56 days. Then, in 1987-1988, unique experiments were conducted...
November 2020
Space medicine and terrestrial health care
... possible to perform model investigations for the simulation of long-term space missions, for example in isolation, dry immersion and short-arm centrifuge techniques. Space physiology and medicine provide plentiful experimental findings for creating...
August 2021
Robotic systems for psychological support
... international space projects Mars-160 and SIRIUS-19 and was the first female test subject in the Dry Immersion experiment. Sergey Vorotnikov is an associate professor at Moscow State Technical University N.A. Bauman in Moscow. His research interests...
