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    "sender_name": "Keith E. Brandt, M.D.",
    "subject": "[amsat-bb] NASA Safety Review Finds No Evidence of Improper Alcohol Use by Astronauts Before Space Flight",
    "date": "2007-08-30T14:42:48Z",
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    "content": "From: NASA News <[email protected]>\nTo: NASA News <[email protected]>\nDate: Wed Aug 29 13:50:00 EDT 2007\nSubject: NASA Safety Review Finds No Evidence of Improper Alcohol Use \nby Astronauts Before Space Flight\n\nAug. 29. 2007\n\nDavid Mould/Michael Cabbage\nHeadquarters, Washington\n202-358-1600\[email protected], [email protected]\n\nRELEASE: 07-184\n\nNASA SAFETY REVIEW FINDS NO EVIDENCE OF IMPROPER ALCOHOL USE BY \nASTRONAUTS BEFORE SPACE FLIGHT\n\nWASHINGTON -- A NASA safety review released Wednesday found no\nevidence to support claims that astronauts were impaired by alcohol\nwhen they flew in space. NASA chief of Safety and Mission Assurance\nBryan O'Connor conducted the monthlong review to evaluate allegations\nincluded in the Astronaut Health Care System Review Committee's\nreport, which was released in late July.\n\n\"I have said many times during the past weeks that NASA takes these\nallegations very seriously -- just as we would any issues that could\nimpact the safety of our missions,\" NASA Administrator Michael\nGriffin told a news conference at NASA Headquarters. \"But at the same\ntime, I also have said that the stories cited in the report seem\nimprobable to those of us familiar with the astronauts' rigorous and\nvery public activities during the hours leading up to a space\nflight.\"\n\nO'Connor's review covered the past 20 years of space flight and\nincludes:\n\n\n\napproximately 90 interviews with participants and witnesses to the\nlast few days before shuttle and Soyuz launches, including current\nand former astronauts, flight surgeons, research and operations\nsupport nurses, shuttle suite technicians, closeout crew technicians\nand the managers and staff of crew quarters, including managers\nfamiliar with the crew quarters in Kazakhstan;\n\na review of more than 40,000 records dating back to 1984, including\nmishap and close call reports, anonymous safety reports, safety\nhotline reports and disciplinary actions involving alcohol and drugs.\nThese records cover 94 shuttle missions and 10 Soyuz missions;\n\na review of relevant policies, procedures and near-launch timelines\nand staffing; and\n\nan inspection of crew quarters at Johnson Space Center in Houston and\nthe Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\n\n\n\nO'Connor interviewed almost 80 percent of active astronauts and all\ncurrent operational flight surgeons. None of them corroborated\nallegations of preflight alcohol use or claims that management\ndisregarded flight surgeon concerns about alcohol impairment and\nastronauts' fitness to fly.\n\n\"My review represents a good deal more investigation than normally\nwould be done in response to an anonymous safety concern,\" O'Connor\nsaid. \"As a result, I am confident there are enough safeguards in\nplace to prevent an impaired crewmember from being strapped into a\nspacecraft.\"\n\nNASA is moving forward with a wide range of improvements based on\nother recommendations from the Astronaut Health Care System Review\nCommittee's report.\n\nWorking with members of the astronaut corps, NASA is developing a\nformal astronaut code of conduct, or \"Expected Astronaut Principles\nof Behavior,\" which will be a document that outlines expectations.\nThe agency's medical managers also are studying how changes and\ninitiatives advocated by the committee would fit into NASA health\ncare procedures in a way that improves their effectiveness.\n\nAnd NASA has accepted recommendations concerning the analysis and use\nof behavioral health data to improve astronaut selection criteria.\n\nNASA will convene expert working groups to advise the agency on\npossible changes to its psychological testing. Additional training\nfor flight surgeons in behavioral health assessments is planned, and\nevaluations will be added to annual flight physicals for all\nastronauts. Continuity of care in NASA clinics will be evaluated. The\nagency will ensure better clinical communication through regular\nmeetings between behavioral health providers and flight surgeons.\n\nIn addition, NASA plans to improve procedures and instructions used in\nthe administration of health care services for its behavioral health\nclinic. Briefings by flight surgeons to crewmembers are being\nre-emphasized to ensure astronauts fully understand the nature and\npurpose of all health-related testing and data collection. Senior\nNASA leaders also are holding meetings with flight surgeons and\nastronauts to ensure they understand the multiple pathways to\ncommunicate safety and health concerns.\n\nTo view O'Connor's report, along with a transcript and video of\nWednesday's news conference, visit:\n\nhttp://www.nasa.gov/audience/formedia/features/astronautreport.html\n\n\n-end-\n\n\n\nTo subscribe to the list, send a message to:\[email protected]\nTo remove your address from the list, send a message to:\[email protected]\n\n",
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