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7 Concerning Things That Happen to Your Body In Space

Going to space is one of humanity's greatest achievements. As people love to point out, we learned to fly for the first time in the early 1900s and were putting men on the moon 50 years later. But as spectacular as that is, there are still plenty of things we need to perfect before making space a more permanent home or going on extended voyages to Mars or beyond.


Part of the problem is the human body. Millions of years of evolution mean that we are meant to exist in a place with gravity, and removing that from the equation creates issues. From the basic obstacles of movement and bodily functions stem more complex health problems like muscle atrophy. In short, even if protected by the engineering might that is the International Space Station, space will slowly kill us. 


Astronauts have mastered the art of operating in zero gravity, including the not-so-glamorous parts. Still, seeing as the ISS is an insulated floating metal tube with a bunch of people inside of it, those hallways can't smell good. The human body is grosser than we'd all like to admit, and that only gets worse in space. Here are seven disgusting things that happen to it when gravity turns to zero. 

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