{"id":192488,"date":"2024-07-07T16:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/even-short-trips-to-space-can-change-an-astronauts-biology-%e2%88%92-a-new-set-of-studies-offers-the-most-comprehensive-look-at-spaceflight-health-since-nasas-twins-study"},"modified":"2024-07-07T16:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T21:25:19","slug":"even-short-trips-to-space-can-change-an-astronauts-biology-%e2%88%92-a-new-set-of-studies-offers-the-most-comprehensive-look-at-spaceflight-health-since-nasas-twins-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/even-short-trips-to-space-can-change-an-astronauts-biology-%e2%88%92-a-new-set-of-studies-offers-the-most-comprehensive-look-at-spaceflight-health-since-nasas-twins-study","title":{"rendered":"Even short trips to space can change an astronaut\u2019s biology \u2212 a new set of studies offers the most comprehensive look at spaceflight health since NASA\u2019s Twins Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/even-short-trips-to-space-can-change-an-astronauts-biology-e28892-a-new-set-of-studies-offers-the-most-comprehensive-look-at-spaceflight-health-since-nasas-twins-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s note: Video above is about a NASA astronaut discussing an extended stay in space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(THE CONVERSATION) \u2013 Only about 600 people have ever traveled to space. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.actaastro.2020.06.004\">The vast majority of astronauts<\/a> over the past six decades have been middle-aged men on short-duration missions of fewer than 20 days.<\/p>\n<p>Today, with private, commercial and multinational spaceflight providers and flyers entering the market, we are witnessing a new era of human spaceflight. Missions have ranged from minutes, hours and days to months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Video above is about a NASA astronaut discussing an extended stay in space. (THE CONVERSATION) \u2013 Only about 600 people have ever traveled to space. The vast majority of astronauts over the past six decades have been middle-aged men on short-duration missions of fewer than 20 days. Today, with private, commercial and multinational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1495,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-health","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192488","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}