Learned how to draw blood today… doesn’t it suit Halloween somehow?
As you know, the International Space Station is a laboratory where we do research in microgravity conditions. Crewmembers are important test subjects for human physiology investigators who attempt to better understand how the human body works by observing the way it adapts to the space environment.
Blood of course contains important biochemical markers of that adaptation. That’s why periodically we are all scheduled for blood draws: how often and how many tubes we draw depends on the actual experimental program for which we are subjects.
Blood-filled tubes are then stored in the Melfi freezer and returned to Earth at the first suitable download opportunity.
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
31/10/2013