{"id":73534,"date":"2017-10-28T01:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/getting-to-and-living-on-mars-will-be-hell-on-your-body"},"modified":"2017-10-28T01:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:42:29","slug":"getting-to-and-living-on-mars-will-be-hell-on-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/getting-to-and-living-on-mars-will-be-hell-on-your-body","title":{"rendered":"Getting to and living on Mars will be hell on your body"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While NASA and SpaceX figure out<\/a> how to get to Mars, they\u2019re also thinking about how the 200-day journey and life on the red planet will affect humans. Astronauts will be dealing with nasty things like muscle atrophy and bone loss, intra-cranial pressure, psychological issues, lack of resources and long-term radiation exposure. NASA and its partners are working on things like \u201ctorpor<\/a>,\u201d a type of space hibernation, and protective Mars cave dwellings with a view. To learn more, Engadget spoke with NASA scientist Laura Kerber and Spaceworks COO John Bradford at the Hello Tomorrow symposium in Paris.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of challenges that are preventing us from even getting there in a healthy state,\u201d said Bradford in a keynote speech at the event. As a human-space-exploration expert, he\u2019s been working on a way to mitigate many of those problems by putting astronauts in a \u201ctorpor state\u201d of prolonged hypothermia. It not only reduces the human problems but helps with technical and engineering challenges, too.<\/p>\n

On the medical side, it addresses the so-called psycho-social challenges (you can\u2019t get depressed if you\u2019re asleep), reduces intra-cranial pressure, opens up new approaches like electrostimulation to reduce muscle atrophy and bone loss, and even helps minimize radiation exposure.<\/p>\n

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While NASA and SpaceX figure out how to get to Mars, they\u2019re also thinking about how the 200-day journey and life on the red planet will affect humans. Astronauts will be dealing with nasty things like muscle atrophy and bone loss, intra-cranial pressure, psychological issues, lack of resources and long-term radiation exposure. NASA and its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73534","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}