Iowa Scientists’ Spaceflight Research Could Help Cure Diseases

In the weeks before Apollo 11 launched, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins spent their quarantine signing hundreds of autographs, not for fans, but so their families could sell them if the mission killed them, since no insurer would cover astronauts at all

In the weeks before Apollo 11 launched, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins spent part of their quarantine signing hundreds of autographs, not for fans, but so their families could sell them if the mission killed them, since no insurer would cover astronauts at all. A risk no insurance company would touch By 1969, spaceflight had already killed. The Apollo 1 fire in January 1967 had killed all three of its crew during a launch rehear…

Iowa scientists’ spaceflight research could help cure diseases

(An Iowa News Service report) – Kinesiology researchers in Iowa are studying the effects of space travel on astronaut muscle atrophy and using that knowledge to treat neuromuscular diseases back at home. Despite taking measure to counteract atrophy, and astronaut can lose as much as 20-percent of their muscle mass onshort spaceflights, and as much as 50-percent on longer missions. Iowa State University kinesiologist Khaled Kamal says even after …