NASA’s Cryosleep Chamber Could Help You Snooze Your Way to Mars
NASA is teaming up with a company called SpaceWorks to create a sleeping pod that could get astronauts into deep space. How does it work? Thanks to Salad ...
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Space travel takes a really long time. And as much as I love board games and asking my mom if we’re there yet, hanging out and eating snacks may not be the best strategy for killing time on our way to the red planet. That’s mostly because being awake for that long means we’re gonna need to eat and drink and do all those normal human things – which means bringing a LOT of supplies with us. Not super practical. But, if we’ve learned anything from movies, the solution is to sleep our way through space. But is long-term snoozing like Ripley in Alien even possible? To tackle this space-sleep conundrum, let’s start with the basics, without the assistance of sedatives or fancy chambers, we have to know how long humans can sleep on our own. Typically we only sleep about eight hours per n...
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Space travel takes a really long time. And as much as I love board games and asking my mom if we’re there yet, hanging out and eating snacks may not be the best strategy for killing time on our way to the red planet. That’s mostly because being awake for that long means we’re gonna need to eat and drink and do all those normal human things – which means bringing a LOT of supplies with us. Not super practical. But, if we’ve learned anything from movies, the solution is to sleep our way through space. But is long-term snoozing like Ripley in Alien even possible? To tackle this space-sleep conundrum, let’s start with the basics, without the assistance of sedatives or fancy chambers, we have to know how long humans can sleep on our own. Typically we only sleep about eight hours per n...
