Conclusion

Several joint Navy/NASA reports issued by Dr. Graybiel and his team detailed ways to cope with motion sickness:

• Disable the vestibular organ function with the same medication used for Meniere’s Disease.
• Treat symptoms with medications to block sensory processes and reduce nausea
• Train in sensory prioritization

“Although the otolith mechanism is indeed important… when it is taken away, other mechanisms do indeed take over.” (Clark, SP-115 164) 

Research was not limited to the small ear labyrinth, and brought out other compensatory functions in our entangled sensory system.

“Manifestly, orientation in space flight requires consideration, not merely of vestibular mechanisms and ocular coordination, but of the whole hierarchy of functions in focusing of attention and visual discrimination.” (Adey SP-115)

With a sense of adventure and patriotism, eleven deaf men put their bodies and minds into space exploration.  Their biological difference expanded our understanding of how humans might survive and thrive in space.  The Gallaudet Eleven helped send mankind to the moon and shed light on the various ways humans experience and adjust to the world around them.