MENU LOGIN OR REGISTER SEARCH Overview ASSOCIATION INFO Committees Governance Policy Compendium This is Aerospace Medicine Slideshows HISTORY CAREERS Aerospace Medicine Residency Programs & Related Courses Research Opportunities Aerospace Nursing Aerospace Physiology Certification in Aerospace Physiology Aerospace Human Factors Job Opportunities Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Scholarships CONSTITUENTS Aerospace Human Factors Association Aerospace Nursing Society Aerospace Physiology Society Airlines Medical Directors Association American Society of Aerospace Medicine Specialists International Association of Military Flight Surgeon Pilots Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering Branch Society of NASA Flight Surgeons Society of U. S. Air Force Flight Surgeons Society of U. S. Naval Flight Surgeons Space Medicine Association U.S. Army Aviation Medicine Association AFFILIATES RELATED ORGANIZATIONS American Board of Preventive Medicine American College of Preventive Medicine AsMA Foundation 2014 AsMA Fellows Scholarship Winner Fellows & Associate Fellows RELATED SITES Overview What is Aerospace Medicine? Aerospace medicine concerns the determination and maintenance of the health, safety, and performance of persons involved in air and space travel. Aerospace Medicine, as a broad field of endeavor, offers dynamic challenges and opportunities for physicians, nurses, physiologists, bioenvironmental engineers, industrial hygienists, environmental health practitioners, human factors specialists, psychologists, physician assistants, and other professionals. Those in the field are dedicated to enhancing health, promoting safety, and improving performance of individuals who work or travel in unusual environments. The environments of space and aviation provide significant challenges, such as microgravity, radiation exposure, G-forces, emergency ejection injuries, and hypoxic conditions, for those embarking in their exploration. Areas of interest range from space and atmospheric flight to undersea activities. The environments studied cover a wide spectrum extending from the microenvironments of space to the increased pressures of undersea activities. Increased knowledge of these unique environments of “Spaceship Earth” helps aerospace medicine professionals ensure participants are physically prepared, physiologically safe, and perform at the highest levels. AEROSPACE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Copyright ©2015 Aerospace Medical Association, All rights reserved Privacy Policy Copyright and Permissions Site map Contact 320 South Henry Street Alexandria, VA 22314-3579 Phone: (703) 739-2240 Fax: (703) 739-9652 CONNECT