Cité des sciences et de l'industrie
Frank Lehot
Aviation doctor
Conference : Does weightlessness accelerate the effects of time?
Frank Lehot is a medical doctor, qualified in aerospace medicine and emergency medicine. He practices in a liberal surgery and hospital complex. He also acts as a flight surgeon, instructor and safety navigator during zero gravity flights of the Novespace Zero G Airbus A310, first dedicated to scientific research and now open to the public. Through his activities, he is interested in human physiology in microgravity. He is a speaker and author of several books about space conquest history, parabolic flight, suborbital tourism and space medicine.
23 novembre 2019 13:00 - Amphi Louis Armand
The weightlessness, so fascinating and exhilarating for the experimenter, nevertheless leads in a worrying way to the accelerated aging of the organism. During space missions, we observe in a few weeks or months muscle damaging, bone decalcification, and cardiovascular, immune, neurosensory alterations ... These disorders are similar to those that occurs with age on Earth, but at time scale relevant to years or decades. They impose astronauts to undertake a daily struggle to preserve their organism and remain operational.