INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Researchers from the European Space Agency and NASA are seeking volunteers for a 60-day bed-rest study, which aims to test the effects of
'artificial gravity' as a possible solution to the negative effects of zero-gravity on the human body.Eight laid-back individuals (four male
and four female), who will be confined to bed for two months at the German Aerospace Center's :envihab facility.It might sound like a dream
contact with the mattress at all times
Even worse, the top of your bed will be angled down by six degrees, so fluids move towards your head.This bed rest will have a similar
effect on your body to low gravity, leading to muscle and bone atrophy
To find out whether artificial gravity could effectively prevent this, you'll be taken for a daily spin in a centrifuge, pushing the blood
through your extremities."Although the effects of weightlessness are primarily investigated on the International Space Station [ISS],
"These findings will later be validated on the ISS."The first batch of volunteers arrive at the test center this week, and a second group
are due to take their places in September
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