Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable

An anonymous reader writes "Japanese researchers have discovered that by taking drugs normally targeted at osteoporosis sufferers they can mitigate the long term effects of weightlessness. This makes it more possible that humans could reasonably fly to Mars land there and be fully functional even after the lengthy journey." JAXA provides much more detail, including interviews with both lead investigator Toshio Matsumoto and Koichi Wakata, the first subject of the experiment.

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Re:Got anything to keep him from using up oxygen?

[Riceballsan]

Indeed removing CO2 is the harder part, though that also can be done and has been done, hence part of why we aren't sending weekly oxygen shipments to the international space station, our bigger problems are still navigating, fuel, Surviving cabin fever etc.. Really I don't think landing a man on mars is really that far out of our technological level, we just lack a cold war or anything to really justify the spending and effort needed to make a government invest heavily in it.