July 1999
Astronaut medication use (NASA-Johnson Space Center and Wyle Laboratories, Houston, TX): “We evaluated in-flight use of medications from astronaut debriefings after 79 U.S. Space Shuttle missions. From the 219 records obtained (each representing one person-flight), 94% included some medication being taken during flight; of that number, 47% were for space motion sickness, 45% for sleep disturbances, and smaller percentages for headache, backache, and sinus congestion. Drugs were taken most often orally, followed in decreasing order of frequency by intranasal, intra-muscular, and rectal routes. Drugs for space motion sickness were taken mostly during the first 2 d of flight,
