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Astronauts can sometimes up to 8cm after they’ve been in space, and now Australian health specialists are working with NASA to make their work less of a pain in the back. Due to lower gravity in space, astronauts often suffer muscle, bone and back problems. “On Earth, when we are upright, gravity loads the spine […]

"Space is a harsh, incredibly forbidding domain. It can play with the mind" Not everyone on a space mission is subject to the same rigorous tests as others - this assymetry between professional astronutters and mad scientists was once put to the test when one of the latter, Taylor Gun-Jin Wang, couldn't get his experiment to work - and spiralled into a deep funk......