NASA and NSBRI are making considerable investment in a bedrest study being conducted at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation under the directorship of Peter Cavanaugh, primarily to assess the impact of exercise on prevention of osteoporosis in a twelve-week bedrest study to simulate microgravity. This provides an outstanding opportunity for synergistic add-on studies to combine the resources of the bone team of NSBRI with those of the Cardiovascular Alterations and Smart Medicine by conducting a series of detailed echocardiographic and computed tomographic examinations of the heart in these patients. These studies will serve to advance a number of the specific aims of a grant currently held by James D. Thomas from NSBRI concerning both the primary effects of microgravity on the heart and its reversal with exercise as well as the ability to prove out new echocardiographic methods for measuring the cardiac response to exercise. Finally, they will provide an excellent opportunity to prove out methodologies being developed for remote delivery of healthcare by image fusion from free-flight studies to in-flight echoes.