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Osteoporosis Drug Makes Lengthy Space Trips More Tolerable

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-bones-to-mars dept.

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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  1. Re:Got anything to keep him from using up oxygen? by xelah · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or just carry plenty along, depending on which is the better choice for mass.

    Good plan - the best thing to do is send along a catholic priest. Then, while he's busy transmuting wine in to the blood of christ and bread in to the body of christ, he can transmute stale CO2-ridden air in to the oxygen of christ.