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Aero Linx: The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine is an internationally renowned center for aerospace medical learning, consultation, aerospace medical investigations and aircrew health assessments. We promote readiness and protect force and community health by using a range of tools and expertise including environmental and health surveillance, laboratory and risk analysis, process re-engineering, consultation and technological innovation to maximize operational health capabilities and to solve problems through ingenuity and partnerships. We train approximately 6,000 students each year. 

Weather Reconnaissance Area (WRA) A WRA is airspace with defined dimensions and published by Notice to Airmen, which is established to support weather reconnaissance/research flights. Air traffic control services are not provided within WRAs. Only participating weather reconnaissance/research aircraft from the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aircraft Operations Center are permitted to operate within a WRA. A WRA may only be established in airspace within U.S. Flight Information Regions outside of U.S. territorial airspace.

“The word hard does not come close to describing how it is.” Source: Part of Russian actress Yulia Peresild's description of the training programs that led her to where she is now... on board the ISS, preparing to film the first commercial movie shots abord the ISS. Her training program was accelerated into four months as she trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre alongside backup crews. The curriculum was likely pared down to the essentials, focusing on Soyuz launch, docking, landing, while dealing with emergent situations. Relatively taciturn in comparison to western training programs, the spaceflight participants were barred from formal interviews, with brief social media postings revealing the difficulty