09 September 2020
The brain reorganises itself in space but is not destroyed, new study says
... environment, it doesn’t deteriorate. Previous experiments on astronauts who have spent months in space have shown that long-duration spaceflight causes widespread physiological changes to the human body. This was most apparent when NASA conducted...
24 February 2016
Final interview for Scott Kelly tomorrow before his return to Earth
...a year in space and how it adjusts to weightlessness, isolation, radiation and the stress of long-duration spaceflight. Two ways in which test the effects of long spaceflights on the human body are field tests and fluid shifts. Fluid shifts deal with...
09 April 2016
Flawless launch for SpaceX Dragon
... debris and contamination. Crew members experience significant decreases in bone density and muscle mass during long-duration spaceflight without appropriate nutrition and exercise. One life science investigation on its way to the orbiting laboratory...
06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
...remote town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Koch’s extended mission will provide researchers the opportunity to observe effects of long-duration spaceflight on a woman as the agency plans to return humans to the Moon under the Artemis program and prepare...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... in 108 countries. The station is a critical testbed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-duration spaceflight. As commercial companies focus on providing human transportation services to and from low-Earth orbit, NASA is free...
19 October 2015
Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko, long-duration spaceflight and the human body
...summary of what we already know about the effects of long-term spaceflight can be found on the National Space Biomedical Research ...more innovative technology that will offset the effects of long spaceflight should we ever hope to set foot on Mars...
