{"id":1183288,"date":"2023-09-19T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183288"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:44:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T14:44:34","slug":"how-scientists-are-mitigating-space-travels-risks-to-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183288","title":{"rendered":"How scientists are mitigating space travel\u2019s risks to the human body"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/crew3-800x522-1.jpg\" alt=\"With NASA planning more missions to space in the future, scientists are studying how to mitigate health hazards that come with space flight\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/crew3.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"890\" data-width=\"1365\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> With NASA planning more missions to space in the future, scientists are studying how to mitigate health hazards that come with space flight (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/record-17-people-in-earth-orbit-at-once\">17 people<\/a> were in orbit around the Earth all at the same time on May 30, 2023, it set a record. With NASA and other federal space agencies planning more manned missions and commercial companies bringing people to space, opportunities for human space travel are rapidly expanding.<\/p>\n<p>However, traveling to space poses risks to the human body. Since NASA wants to send a manned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/moon-to-mars\">mission to Mars<\/a> in the 2030s, scientists need to find solutions for these hazards sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>As a kinesiologist who works with astronauts, I\u2019ve spent years <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=KaVh79oAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">studying the effects<\/a> space can have on the body and brain. I\u2019m also involved in a NASA project that aims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/hrp\/5-hazards-of-human-spaceflight\">mitigate the health hazards<\/a> that participants of a future mission to Mars might face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969245#p3\">Read 18 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969245&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1969245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How scientists are mitigating space travel\u2019s risks to the human body<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ With NASA planning more missions to space in the future, scientists are studying how to mitigate health hazards that come with space flight (credit: SpaceX) When 17 people were in orbit around the Earth all at the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1183288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1183288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1183289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}