• Question: what happens when you stay in space to long?

    Asked by Lebron James to Col Op, Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 4 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Richard Moss

      Richard Moss answered on 4 Mar 2016:

      Your family misses you!

      There are long term effects such as exposure to radiation (our atmosphere protects us), bone loss, muscle loss. But through the research on the international space station, most long term effects have “countermeasures” meaning that we can find ways to deal with them.
      Today, staying in space for 1 year is not difficult. Maybe even 2 years is without problems, we did not try so far.

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