Caring for human health in space... MEDES provides support for space missions, by developing and validating preventive measures and innovative technologies for protecting the health of astronauts
MEDES is a laboratory for the inception and incubation of innovative projects and has been working for more than 25 years in the fields of e-health and remote epidemiology to benefit the health of the population as a whole, all over the world.
Since its creation in 1989, MEDES has been striving to maintain and help develop French competence in space medicine and physiology and to promote the application of space research in the field of health.
MEDES achieves this through its work in three main sectors: support in space medicine and physiology for space exploration, clinical research, and lastly space applications and innovations for health.
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New all-female study in water beds for space missions !
From September 21, 2021 to December 10, 2021
20 women are tucking themselves in a waterbed for five days as part of a dry immersion study to recreate some of the effects of spaceflight on the body.
Project Controller at the European Astronaut Centre
From May 9, 2022 to June 17, 2022
Context MEDES, located in Toulouse, is a hybrid organization between space and health, an Economic Group of Interest, which was created in 1989 by the French Space Agency, CNES and Toulouse University...
MEDES, the health subsidiary of CNES, supports the Alpha mission, the new space mission of Thomas Pesquet. In particular, MEDES is working with the CNES/CADMOS centre to prepare and monitor the physiological experiments on board the ISS and is seconding some of its staff to the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne to monitor the astronauts' training and medical support.