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The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life
  + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Kim Tingley | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +5 min
But the space-based medical science needed to make that possible has been hindered by small sample sizes that aren’t representative of the general population. As less-rigorous medical screening allows more tourists to reach space, the chances increase significantly that someone will get hurt or have a health emergency there. And if we survived those perils, wouldn’t escalating pressure in our skulls kill us after a week or so? Initially, many space travelers puke, or at least feel motion-sick — space-adaptation syndrome, or S.A.S., is what such nausea, headache and vomiting are called outside our atmosphere. symptoms in the 1970s, when they heard Skylab astronauts talking about it with one another over a hot mic.
Persons: Donoviel, TRISH, ” Donoviel, Yuri Gagarin, humanity’s, hadn’t, Gagarin, , Jan Stepanek, , acclimate Organizations: Apollo, Institute, Space Health, Baylor College of Medicine, NASA, Aerospace, American Board of Preventive, Mayo Clinic Locations: Scottsdale, Ariz
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