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Astronauts can experience bone loss in space. To understand why, you need to know a bit about how bones are formed and maintained in your body.
Participating classes will explore how indoor environmental conditions influence human health, and identify the best conditions for healthy living. This knowledge is important not only on Earth, but also on the International Space Station (ISS), the future Lunar Gateway, and as long-duration space travel progresses, maybe even on Mars!
In planetary science, astronomers have found planets that orbit other stars, just like Earth orbits the Sun. Some of them might even be able to support life.
Astronauts can experience bone loss in space. To understand why, you need to know a bit about how bones are formed and maintained in your body.
One of the greatest hazards that humans in space face is cosmic radiation. Learn what cosmic radiation is, why it's dangerous, and ways that we are looking at protecting humans in deep space.
This backgrounder explains what temperature is, how it is measured, how it affects people, and how it is controlled on the International Space Station.