Muscle effects of a Mars flight

April 10, 2007

A neurologist comments:

. . . it probably wouldn’t be good. “We can anticipate that landing on Mars, after 6 months in microgravity, will incur substantial muscle damage,” the authors of the report write. “It is impossible to predict how much motor dysfunction will occur after the 6-month return voyage to Earth and reintroduction to 1g except to say it has the potential to be enormously disabling.”



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