2023-05-30 17:22:00
Spend two months lying down to help space research: volunteers have agreed to stay in bed under surveillance in Toulouse, in order to recreate the absence of gravity and thus contribute to improving the living conditions of astronauts during their missions.
“We see ourselves getting thinner day by day at the start,” smiles Matthieu, one of the twelve men selected for this experiment, who has been well established for five weeks at the Medes clinic, a health subsidiary of the National Center for Space Studies ( CNES).
The bed of these volunteers, chosen from 3,000 candidates and whose names are not communicated, remains tilted for 60 days at an angle of -6 degrees, the best able to reproduce the effects of weightlessness to which the astronauts are subjected. during their stays in space.
“We have entered the space exploration phase. We are really looking to go to the Moon and Mars, it is no longer a fiction and it involves long-term flights of two to three years”, explains to AFP Audrey Bergouignan , from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
“Exposure to microgravity will impact all physiological systems (…) and cause alterations that we are trying to understand and prevent”, specifies this research director, before adding: “To prevent them , we put in place protocols that we test upstream here, before testing them in space.”
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