This has led to accusations in the press, from regional medical selection committees, and from Remedy UK that it has been a "dumbing-down" process.

It was assigned responsibilities for aviation medical training, medical statistics, aircrew medical selection, life support and survival equipment and clinical aviation medicine.

Vatsalya School has also established itself in the field of education, with many IIT (Indian Institutes of Technology), NIIT and medical selections .

Flickinger, and his mentor Randy Lovelace (the bioastronautics pioneer who performed the medical selection of the Mercury Seven), had a far-reaching interest in research on the suitability of women as astronauts.

Pletser passed successfully the medical selection and was unofficially informed that one of the places as alternate Payload Specialist astronaut would be proposed to him, having received the most recommendations of the LMS Mission Investigator Working Group.