Two words . . . bigger bones.
Are you kidding me? Mr. T figured this out back in the 1980s. To paraphrase him: "Milk, fool!"
they should just recruit from the Republican Congress.
They're pretty limp-boned to start with.
Two words: Rubber Bands.
I have been aware of this problem since Skylab.
Thought they'd had developed an adequate conditioning
program by now. Oh well, back to the drawing board as
the clock is ticking....JJ61
Read The Case for Mars by Dr. Robert Zubrin. Although criticized as an optimist by many, he has had a large impact at NASA and the development of the current Mars Design Reference Mission (DRM III). In the Case for Mars he outlines a way to have Mars-normal gravity ~1/3g in a spacecraft by a simple rotating tether. It is not complicated engineering nor mission critical if the tether fails.
If you select astronaut candidates at very young ages, you can place them into a drug and supplement regimen that would highly increase their bone growth and density during their developmental years.
Well, it worked in Gattaga!
Right now NASA is working on a plan to lanch and entire LA Fitness franchise toward Mars....
Blue pill for the Red planet.
Sounds like a job for Mr. Loobner, he was born without a spine you know...
If it isn't rockets keeping us from getting to Mars, it's something else. Might be life there. Radiation will fry their neurons. Their bones will disappear. Maybe they will fall off the edge of the world. It won't matter in the long run unless we repeal the Treaty.
What??? (I'm focusing on the post-menopausal women part.) Is that for women with osteoporosis? Or is that a factor of post-menopause itself? That's a pretty staggering percentage of bone loss. So, in 10 years a woman would lose 15% of her bone mass? And in 20 years, 30%?
