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Audio Interchange File Format  |  1993-05-26  |  808.2 KB  |  1 channel  |  22,254.5 sample rate  |  37 seconds
Transcription: The crew members aboard the seventh shuttle mission participated in experiments designed to help researchers learn more about the causes of space motion sickness, an illness that affects about half of all shuttle astronauts. One experiment examined the manner in which the movement of the eye reacts to the disruption of equilibrium. Another test required measurements of the astronauts' limbs to help determine if there was a correlation between space sickness and the physical characteristics of the body. A cleared crew dubbed the doctor's mid-deck working area a chamber of horrors and later gave ...