NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from eight-month International Space Station mission due to unspecified medical issue.
NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from eight-month International Space Station mission due to unspecified medical issue.
Eight months is brutal. Yet that isn’t even one leg of a round trip Mars mission, unless nuclear propulsion is used. Still a giant problem we have to figure out. We are not colonizing the solar system on chemical rockets alone.
Unless someone nasa/or musk, starts looking at the effects of centrifugal gravity on long term health.
Its just not going to happen. Atm anyone travelling to Mars is unlikely to be fit to explore by landing. Given the trip length.
But we have understood centrifugal artificial gravity since before space flight, and planned to experiment on iss.
But cheep politics has not bothered.
Even if you do make gravity, there is still not enough electromagnetic shielding.