'Pillownauts' help future human missions to Mars

[Northerner]

Scientists at the University of Nottingham are enlisting the help of 'pillownauts' to push back the boundaries of space travel in a new study to examine a potentially serious adverse effect of weightlessness on the human body.

The 3-day bed rest study is being carried out in Nottingham in parallel to a 60-day bed rest study by the European Space Agency at the MEDES facility in Toulouse, France. Bed rest is a tried and tested way to measure the effects of weightlessness on the human body which include bone and muscle mass loss, cardiovascular decline and impaired carbohydrate metabolism which could be a risk for type 2 diabetes.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180208144419.htm

 

[mikeyB]

I’m in fine condition if they want volunteers. I like bed.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I'd willingly volunteer to lay in bed for three days, especially if wine is provided

 

[zuludog]

I went to the University of Nottingham in the 1970s. I was obviously ahead of my time........