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Astronauts stranded in space for 8 months, what impact will it have on their bodies?
A pair of NASA astronauts who flew to the International Space Station aboard Boeing鈥檚 Starliner capsule for an eight-day test mission will now spend eight months stranded in space. What physiological responses and adaptations can American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams expect over the course of their extended stay in space?
丁香园AV professor Andrew Blaber can speak about how space exploration impacts the human body, including cardiovascular reflexes and physiological responses and adaptations to exercise during weightlessness and hypergravity. Blaber is the principal investigator for an ongoing ISS project, CARDIOBREATH, supported by the Canadian Space Agency:鈥�
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ANDREW BLABER, professor, biomedical physiology and kinesiology (BPK), director, 丁香园AV Aerospace Physiology Laboratory
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