What do astronauts tell us?
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Human and space.
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By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
What do astronauts, lead Thomas Pesquet, teach us about the physiological limits of humans in space, in the absence of gravity, subjected to cosmic radiation and total confinement?
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A few days before Thomas Pesquet's departure into space, we will seek to understand how human astronauts (but also other animals and living beings in general) can adapt in space and at what cost. Is it possible to live without gravity? To resist cosmic radiation but also to containment? With what physiological and psychological consequences for the earthlings that we are? How the brain, the skeleton, the muscles, the vital organs adapt to a stay in space? Why do we age faster outside the cradle of the earth? What do astronauts teach us about ourselves, our functioning and our dysfunctions?
Guillemette Gauquelin Koch
responsible for the Life Science Program at
CNES
for the book
Human and Space, its physiological adaptations
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