Halley research station hosts research to understand human adaptation to space flight

Monday, March 2, 2015 - 09:00 in Astronomy & Space

A medical doctor, based at the most southerly UK research station in Antarctica, is about to embark on a new campaign of life science experiments to study how people adapt to life in remote and isolated locations in preparation for prolonged space flight. One of these experiments, set up in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA ), involves staff at British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Halley Research Station being tested using a specially designed spaceflight simulator over the austral winter.

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