space medicine
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Mutated Strains of Unknown Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found Lurking on ISS
It’s not clear how the space bacteria may affect the health of astronauts on the ISS—or humans back down on Earth.
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New Wearable Helps Astronauts Know Up From Down—Trusting It Is the Hard Part
A one way trip to the Red Planet would take up to nine months. During that time, astronauts on board the Mars-bound spacecraft could lose their sense of direction and ability to know up from down, making it difficult to orient themselves on the Martian surface. In order to keep astronauts on course, a wearable…
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ISS Experiment Hopes to Develop Air Conditioning for Future Habitats on Other Worlds
A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats on the Moon and Mars. The Flow Boiling and Condensation Experiment (FBCE) launched on board a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to…
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How Do Astronauts Shit in Space?
There’s a ton of space-related news dominating the headlines right now. Billionaires are engaged in a space race, celebrities are riding along in rockets, and 1,500 pages of UFO-related reports were just declassified by the government. The age of space tourism may soon be upon us, but the age of space curiosity is already quite…