{"id":114860,"date":"2020-10-22T00:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-built-a-gravity-suit-to-keep-astronauts-healthy"},"modified":"2020-10-22T00:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T07:22:19","slug":"researchers-built-a-gravity-suit-to-keep-astronauts-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-built-a-gravity-suit-to-keep-astronauts-healthy","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Built a \u201cGravity Suit\u201d to Keep Astronauts Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-built-a-gravity-suit-to-keep-astronauts-healthy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe mobile gravity suit is a small, untethered, and flexible intravehicular activity (IVA) suit,\u201d the researchers wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fphys.2020.00977\/full\">their paper<\/a> published in the <em>Frontiers in Physiology<\/em> journal.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to give astronauts maximum flexibility while on board a spacecraft, without reducing crew time. \u201cWith the gravity suit, astronauts will be able to float freely around the space station while adhering to their every day tasks,\u201d the paper reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negative pressure is generated by its own portable vacuum system, ensuring full mobility, and user-control,\u201d the paper reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe mobile gravity suit is a small, untethered, and flexible intravehicular activity (IVA) suit,\u201d the researchers wrote in their paper published in the Frontiers in Physiology journal. The idea is to give astronauts maximum flexibility while on board a spacecraft, without reducing crew time. \u201cWith the gravity suit, astronauts will be able to float freely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}