Sunday 27 January 2019

ESA studies the effects of lunar gravity on astronauts

Steffan Powell of the BBC tries out the space treadmill

For decades, space medicine scientists have been studying the effects of weightlessness on the human body and how to correct them. But what about low gravity, like that on the Moon? In anticipation of astronauts returning to the lunar surface, ESA's education coordinator David Green and science operations engineer Tobias Weber are leading a study at the space agency's astronaut center in Cologne to learn more about the long-term effects of lunar gravity.

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from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2sNpNAt

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