Summary

The human body is a complex machine that’s been fine-tuned—through millions of years of evolution—to operate here on Earth. So what happens to that machine when you put it inside a box and fling it far beyond the safety of our planet’s atmosphere? This, in vastly oversimplified terms, is the question that biomedical researchers at NASA have been asking for decades.

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