Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 229, The Body in Space. I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be kicking off this discussion today.

Listeners of this show know that the human body goes

through quite a bit in space. Things like bone, muscle, and vision just to name

a few all change while a person is living and working in space.

What of NASA's goals of sending humans into space in the first place

is to figure out what's happening.

From there we can implement countermeasures to counteract some of these effects like working out a lot to

counteract bone and muscle loss and we can conduct experiments to learn about the human body

in an incredibly unique environment. What we can learn there in space

can be applied on Earth and for exploring

even deeper into space.

Now towards the end of last year, 2021,

well-known American actor and producer Tom Cruz

had an in-depth conversation with veteran NASA astronaut Victor Glover about these effects

on the human body during the World Extreme Medicine Conference.

For about an hour, Cruz asked Glover about his experience in space, and they together explored

some of these physiological changes.

Glover discussed launching, space walking, the view from Earth,

adapting to gravity after returning to Earth,

and a whole lot more.

It was a thoughtful and informative discussion,

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