The contribution of the Military Medical Academy in space exploration

Abstract

The article examines the contribution of the Military Medical Academy as an educational, research and medical institutions in the establishment and development of the national Russian manned spaceflight. Lists the names of the Academy’s scientists, working in laboratories and in the Cosmonaut Training Center. In 1958 the academy was formed Department of Aviation Medicine from the research laboratories of aviationmedicine, psychophysiology, and encephalography, a division of pressure chambersand furnaces. Direct contribution to the preparation of the first manned space flightmade by graduates of the academy, E.A.Karpov (the first chief of Cosmonauts Training Center. Yuri Gagarin) and I.A.Kolosov. Over the half century history of the Russian SpaceMilitary Medical Academy, prepared and sent to the CPC Gagarin more than 110 of its graduates.