1982 - Effects of space flight on astronauts with sickle cell anemia

Medicine
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About This Innovation

* Through her research on the effects of weightlessness on an individual’s physiology, Long determined that space had no effect on sickle cell anemia. * This finding opened up careers in aerospace to more African Americans.

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