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483-5111 September 30, 1970
MSC 70-104
HOUSTON_ TEXAS--A new program designed to minimize possible exposure
of future Apollo flight crews to disease or illness will be introduced 21
days prior to the launch of Apollo 14.
The program_ called the Flight Crew Health Stabilization Program_ will
provide close medical surveillance of the crew and those persons v_i_h whom
they work closely. The program also will control and limit _he number of
persons having contact with the crew and limit the crew to areas where
microbial eontamina%ion is minimized.
Dr. Charles A. Berry_ Director of Medical Research and Operations at
the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center_ said "The most important factors in making
this plan to reduce the possibility of crew illness effective, are awareness
of_ acceptance of_ and emphas_ s on preventive medicine by all management
levels and by flight crews."
The program generally provides for:
- Crew health to be stabilized by implementation of epidemiology_
clinical medicine, and immunology programs_ and limitation of the number of
outside contacts with the flight crews.
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