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To: Jan_Sobieski
the return of Soviet cosmonauts from space expeditions barely able to stand on their feet and undergoing long recoveries, while US astronauts crawled out of their lunar ships, in his words, “like cucumbers from the garden.”

Uh, Dmitri, there's a bit of a difference between spending months in orbit and 10 or 11 days going to and from the moon.

6 posted on 08/04/2023 1:32:20 PM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: Campion

Not to mention it’s probably a lot easier to deal with 1/6 gravity than full earth gravity, even if your muscles have started to atrophy a bit.


68 posted on 08/04/2023 4:19:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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