The Role of NASA Flight Surgeons
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) assigns flight surgeons to every crew preparing for a space mission. These doctors are responsible for the astronauts' health care and medical evaluations and training before, during, and after spaceflight.
Can a flight surgeon become an astronaut?
Become an astronaut
Some space doctors may operate similar to present-day space-agency flight surgeons: remotely or as a basic-trainer for astronauts.
Do flight surgeons get deployed?
One emergency medicine resident is training now to become a Naval flight surgeon, and when he completes training, he will attach to a jet and helicopter squadron and deploy with those soldiers as their front line physician. Wherever they go, he will go—and then he will return to residency training.
