SPACE BENEFITS
Assessment of crew member health and fitness (specifically their aerobic capacity) is a vital part
of any mission, not only to secure the well-being of the crew member in question, but also to
secure the aims and goals of the mission such as undertaking scientific research. The EKE
experiment should help to reduce the amount of time that is spent making this type of
cardiopulmonary health assessment on long-duration missions (thus increasing the time
available for research activities) by the development of an improved diagnostic method for the
assessment of endurance capacity which is less time intensive than currently used method
(VO2max).
RESULTS
Data from the experiment is currently being analyzed and processed prior to results
publication.
This investigation is complete; however additional results are pending publication.