U.S. Air Force Col. Jay Flottmann is one of a handful of individuals the service calls “unicorns”—qualified both as a fighter pilot and a physician. As a member of the NASA team charged with studying ...

US fighter pilots are having trouble breathing and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center has been asked to look into the problem. Over the next few months, test pilots at the Langley Research Center ...

NASA is embarking on a new study of pilot breathing that will likely have implications for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force’s investigations into an alarming spike of hypoxia-like physiological events ...

Lawmakers criticized U.S. Air Force and Navy leaders over the latest hypoxia-related incidents occurring in various aircraft for not honoring their obligation to pilots. During a House Armed Services ...

HOUSTON Hypoxia is something NASA takes very seriously. In an intimidating room known as "the chamber," NASA trainers gave us oxygen, and then took it away. It was a test to see if we could recognize ...

(Washington, DC) – The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4412, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2014, and S. 1254, the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia ...