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Isolation Chamber

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Isolation Chamber 

in astronautics, a room with dim artificial illumination and soundproof walls, in which astronauts spend many hours in isolation during evaluation and training. The astronauts’ reactions to the absence of external stimuli, such as the noise of running engines, are monitored visually or by means of telemetry devices. Isolation chambers simulate some of the conditions encountered during space flight. (SeeSPACE FLIGHT, SIMULATION OF.)



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Ahern has availed himself of the offer of some kriotherapy to speed up his recovery, and the treatment, which involves being exposed to extremely low temperatures in an isolation chamber, had the desired effect, as the jockey explained after winning on the well-backed newcomer, supported from 9-1 to 4-1.
On June 3, a six-man international crew entered an isolation chamber in Moscow for a simulated 520-day Mars mission conducted by the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The experiment was carried out in an isolation chamber in Moscow from March 31 to July 14.
 
 
 
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