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NASA "Bed Rest" Contractor Blogs the Days

Posted by timothy on from the idle-for-science dept.

Arguendo writes "It seems that earning $5000 a month for bed rest as a NASA contractor may not be so enjoyable after all. A 38 year-old woman selected for the study is blogging about her experience as test subject for NASA's study about the long-term effects of microgravity on people. There's quite a bit of information on her page, including info about the screening process, the food options [.xls link], and the not-so-great days of testing and immobility. It definitely sounds like work."

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  1. Googlestalked... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here's her Flickr account. I assume the ceiling tiles are from the Galveston research center. I have to say, in general, the food sure doesn't look terribly appetizing, but for some reason, food rarely looks appetizing in photos (which is why lots of marketing photos for food are actually photos of non-food things that look like food, like painted paste, wax, etc).