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1. SOYUZ LANDING CAPS HISTORIC SPACE STATION INCREMENT
2. NASA PORTABLE HYPERBARIC CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY FINDS HOME ON EARTH

Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:28:51 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: SOYUZ LANDING CAPS HISTORIC SPACE STATION INCREMENT

October 11, 2009

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #H09-237

SOYUZ LANDING CAPS HISTORIC SPACE STATION INCREMENT

WASHINGTON -- International Space Station Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt landed their Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft on the steppes of Kazakhstan Sunday, wrapping up a six-month stay Joining them was spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte, who spent 11 days in space

Padalka, the Soyuz commander, guided the spacecraft to a parachute-assisted landing at 12:32 a m EDT at a site northeast of the town of Arkalyk

Russian recovery teams were on hand within minutes of landing to help the crew exit from the Soyuz vehicle and reacclimate to gravity The crew members will return to the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, outside of Moscow, for reunions with their families

Padalka and Barratt spent 199 days in space and 197 days on the station after their March 26 launch Laliberte launched with the Expedition 21 crew on a Soyuz vehicle Sept 30 and returned after nine days on the station

Padalka and Barratt presided over the inauguration of a six-person crew and two space shuttle assembly and resupply missions to the station They also were station crew members during the delivery of tons of cargo and new science facilities for expanded research, and the arrival of the first Japanese H-II Transfer cargo vehicle

The station now is occupied by Expedition 21 Commander Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency and Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko and Max Suraev of Russia, Bob Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency and Nicole Stott and Jeff Williams of NASA

For information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:36:32 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA PORTABLE HYPERBARIC CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY FINDS HOME ON EARTH

October 13, 2009

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Sonja Alexander Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1761

Report #H09-239

NASA PORTABLE HYPERBARIC CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY FINDS HOME ON EARTH

WASHINGTON -- NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies OxyHeal Medical Systems Inc of National City, Calif , will develop new products based on technologies NASA originally developed for space

Hyperbaric chambers create an environment in which the atmospheric pressure of oxygen is increased above normal levels The high concentrations of oxygen can reduce the size of gas bubbles in the blood and improve blood flow to oxygen-starved tissues

"These technologies will allow OxyHeal to develop new products capable of providing life-saving treatments and care to patients in remote areas that may not have access to large, fixed-site hyperbaric chamber facilities," said Ted Gurnee, president of OxyHeal Additionally, the company is working on solutions that involve large portable hyperbaric chambers for possible use in treatment of disaster victims

The partially exclusive patent license agreement allows the company to use three technologies developed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston that are associated with inflatable spacecraft modules and portable hyperbaric chambers

NASA developed the technologies as part of a program to plan for how astronauts in space might be treated for decompression sickness Decompression sickness, commonly called "the bends," can occur in astronauts as they undergo pressure changes returning from spacewalks and in divers as they return to the water's surface

In addition to treating decompression sickness, hyperbaric chamber therapy on Earth also commonly provides treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning, crush injuries, healing problem wounds, soft tissue infections, significant blood loss and other ailments

The NASA inventors of the portable hyperbaric chamber, Dr James Locke, William Schneider and Horacio de la Fuente, recently were recognized by the Federal Laboratory Consortium with a Notable Technology Development Award

"NASA has a long history of making space-aged technologies available for commercialization, creating new markets that power the economy," said Michele Brekke, director of the Innovation Partnership Program Office at Johnson "These commercial products and services, known as 'spinoffs,' allow the taxpayers to benefit from space exploration "

For more information about NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program Office, visit:

http://www nasa gov/offices/ipp/home

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