Equipment

What you need on the shelf — and why. This section turns NASA standards, NASA technical briefs, Human Research Program evidence reports, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) guidance and the published literature into practical equipment guides for clinicians. Every item is tied back to the condition it screens for or treats, with links to the matching Clinical article. Acronyms are spelled out on first use and collected in the glossary.

A Pre-Flight & Post-Flight Clinic

Designing and outfitting a dedicated clinic for pre-flight medical evaluation and certification and post-flight return evaluation of career astronauts and commercial spaceflight participants.

SMF-E-0001 · guide · draft

Pre-Flight & Post-Flight Clinic

A plain-language design guide for a clinic that certifies people before flight and evaluates them after landing: equipment by evaluation domain, what to do in-house versus refer out, a room-by-room layout and an essential / recommended / advanced build.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F E

B Mission Medical Kits

Equipment, drugs and supplies carried on board, and how they change from suborbital hops to Mars-class missions.

SMF-E-0002 · reference · draft

Mission Medical Kits

What medical equipment, drugs and supplies are carried on suborbital flights, short commercial orbital flights, a low Earth orbit station, lunar and Gateway missions, and Mars-class missions, and how distance, duration, drug shelf life and the loss of evacuation change the kit.

◆◆◆◇ Moderate · F C E

How to read these guides

Tiers. Clinic items are grouped as essential, recommended or advanced. These tiers are SMF editorial proposals mapped to the cited test schedules, not an official NASA or FAA classification.
Categories, not brands. Product names appear only where they are part of a cited source (for example, a drug list published by NASA).
Planning notes on space and infrastructure are practical estimates, flagged “pending verification”. Confirm them with equipment vendors, a qualified medical physicist (for X-ray rooms) and local building and licensing rules.
Mission kits describe what has been published; actual flight kits are set by each program's flight surgeons and change over time.

Primary sources used across this section

OCHMO-STD-100.1A — NASA astronaut medical standards, selection, annual recertification and mission medical evaluations
NASA-STD-3001 Vol. 1 Rev C · Vol. 2 · OCHMO technical briefs
FAA guidance for medical screening of commercial aerospace passengers (AM-06/1) · FAA Recommended Practices for Human Space Flight Occupant Safety
NASA Human Research Program evidence reports · Exploration Medical Capability Mars medical concept of operations

NASA and FAA documents are U.S. Government works (public domain), summarized with attribution. SMF is independent and not affiliated with NASA or the FAA.

All pages: Reviewer — Pending review · AI-assisted · Educational use only (disclaimer).