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NASA Launches “Lunar Loo” Challenge to Design a Reduced Gravity Toilet

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has set an exciting, yet ambitious timeline to get us back to the moon by 2024! But instead of merely planting a flag, playing a round of golf, and collecting some rocks to bring home, NASA hopes to establish a permanent lunar base that will eventually act as… Read More »

Zero gravity made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

By Clare Wilson Zero gravity made some astronauts on the International Space Station experience reversed blood flow.NASA Being in zero gravity can have strange effects on the body – now it’s emerged that it can make people’s blood flow backwards. The changes to circulation caused two astronauts to develop small blood clots, which could have… Read More »