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| I heard this mission entailed too much work and not enough time available for exercise to keep this kind of thing from happening.....could happen to the best of us if put in similar situation working with civilian airheads! SMSB
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| Some of these astronauts are not spring chickens either, she is 43. I know they are all in tip top shape and go through extensive physicals...but space flight at that age must take a toll on the human body. A long trip to Mars will be brutal if we ever attempt it. The round trip to the Moon took 8 days [Apollo]. STS-115 [Shuttle Atlantis] was up there for 12 days. During 12 days in zero gravity an astronaut loses about 10% of his/her total blood volume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Apollo
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RangerRios (9/22/2006)
Some of these astronauts are not spring chickens either, she is 43. I know they are all in tip top shape and go through extensive physicals...but space flight at that age must take a toll on the human body. A long trip to Mars will be brutal if we ever attempt it. The round trip to the Moon took 8 days [Apollo]. STS-115 [Shuttle Atlantis] was up there for 12 days. During 12 days in zero gravity an astronaut loses about 10% of his/her total blood volume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Apollo Check this out Rey - http://www.earthsky.org/shows/show.php?date=20031010
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| SMSB, interesting research. One thing does not click though. The yahoo article I posted above stated that an astronaut can lose 10 to 14% of their blood volume while in space but it did not mention the time in 'zero g' that would take for that to happen. I mean I think the Russians have the endurance record with like 6+ months in space during a single mission. How much blood volume would and astronaut/cosmonaut lose during a flight like that? It is bad enough with all the bone and muscle tissue loss.
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RangerRios (9/22/2006)
SMSB, interesting research. One thing does not click though. The yahoo article I posted above stated that an astronaut can lose 10 to 14% of their blood volume while in space but it did not mention the time in 'zero g' that would take for that to happen. I mean I think the Russians have the endurance record with like 6+ months in space during a single mission. How much blood volume would and astronaut/cosmonaut lose during a flight like that? It is bad enough with all the bone and muscle tissue loss. Each Space Station crew stays up for 6 months. The longest time any has stayed in space on a single flight was cosmonaut Dr. Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov spent 437.7 days aboard Soyuz TM-18 (1994 -1995). I got that info from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/spacefirsts.shtml. I have never heard of the blood volume issue but I will check in to it Monday (I work in the Johnson Space Center community).
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RaginCajun, thanks for looking into that. You mentioned 437.7 days in space...was that in a single mission? What was the cosmonaut's condition upon his return to earth?
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