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The Sunday Read: ‘The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life’

The Sunday Read: ‘The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life’

The Daily vor 2 Jahren

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As an incubator of life, Earth has a lot going for it, something
we often fail to appreciate fully from within its nurturing
bounds. Merely sending probes and rovers to the moon and Mars
won’t do. For various reasons — adventure! apocalypse! commerce!
— we insist upon taking our corporeal selves off-world too.
Multiple private companies have announced plans to put hotels in
space soon. NASA is aiming to 3-D-print lunar neighborhoods
within a couple of decades. And while it will probably take
longer than that to build and populate an outpost on Mars,
preparations are being made: This summer, four NASA crew
members began a 378-day stay in simulated Martian housing at the
Johnson Space Center in Houston. Here’s some of what we know
about how Earthlings fare beyond the safety of our home world.

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